Mail server

I want to have a mail server for emails on my domain. This is easy to set up with shared web hosting, but since I don’t want to lock myself into PHP or C#, I want to go another route.

After some looking, I discover this reddit thread. Several apparently very experienced people discussing how they hate to manage a mail server and never want to do it again. Oh well. I guess that means I’ll look into getting some big mail client to handle mails to my domain. Luckily, I don’t know anything about that either!

I know the big players are google and microsoft, but I would prefer someone smaller. I take a look around, and I find several that look interesting, but I actually quite like the google interface, and they are cheap enough. But then I change my mind again and take an actual look at some other possibilities.

• Hey email seems quite nice and safe from big tech, but not a big focus on privacy.
• Protonmail very privacy focused - actually seems quite good. Will need a closer look.

As for hosting, I’ve found a few today too:

• [https://aiso.net/]
• [https://www.greengeeks.com/]
• [https://webhosting.coop/]
• [https://www.webarchitects.coop]

Leaning towards webhosting.coop, but still unsure.

Another option is a european cloud solution - this site gives some ideas, but again it’s difficult to figure out. Also, would I benefit from putting kubernetes in between, so I can change cloud provider later? One more technology to learn.