[2012-10-14 10:19:10 +0200] Menachem Moystoviz:
So in essence, what you're proposing is to only upgrade from VPS to private hosting when the resiliency of my private server is good enough - i.e. not most naive setups? It does make sense, and would make backups more urgent and important.
Backups are a must regardless of your setup. Next comes the question of reliability: how much downtime are you willing to trade for convenience? Here is what I do: I nearly exclusively use my official email addresses (professional, university alumni, Arch Linux) because there are people who will notice and fix any issue 24/7, and I care deeply that every email sent to me reaches its destination; whenever I feel like reading emails, I pull them from those accounts onto my machine (and send a copy to gmail automatically - I only use them as a backup service); I read my emails comfortably using mutt and have a unison regularly synchronize the (encrypted) copy of my emails I have on all my machines. I also run postfix on my home server but only use it to run a couple of silly mailing lists that I am perfectly willing to lose for a few weeks if it so happens that I am travelling and my server breaks down. I would not trust a private VPS more, nor any server that has a single admin. Cheers. -- Gaetan