Internode and Westnet are no longer taking new internet and mobile customers as part of an eventual shutdown enacted by TPG.

Internode used to be a high quality home internet brand.

My understanding is that loyalty is never rewarded for competitive subscription services (gas, eletricity, water, internet, insurance, etc).

I wonder how long until AussieBB enshitifies?

  • legiosEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’ve been self-hosting email for 10+years. I can confirm it’s a pain in the arse… Harder from a dynamic IP too (since you basically can’t get any reputation, or you might get an IP that’s banned for ‘x’ reasons)

    Postfix + Dovecot here

    Edit: Didn’t really give you an opinion. It’s doable if you have the time and patience. I work in IT too so I’m pretty good at troubleshooting etc. but sometimes it’s a LOT of time fiddling and debugging.

      • legiosEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        I use FreeBSD so used the guide here:

        https://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4

        Sadly it is a little outdated and 1 step will fail right now until a new package is committed in to the FreeBSD repo (HTMLPurifier) which was removed as it was PHP7 only for a while. But yeah, have SPF, DKIM and DMARC running too. Took a little fiddling since I technically host for 2 domains but trial and error and all good now.

    • shirroEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      IMO the only truly difficult part of self hosting is mail delivery because you end up at the mercy of big stupid companies (eg Microsoft) that don’t give a shit. It is possible and possibly advisable to use a paid service for delivery and let someone else deal with the bastards.

      With a bit of research and a methodical approach I think just about anybody comfortable setting up other linux network services should be fine. I am very lazy and have been doing it for 2 decades. I like being in control of my own mail store. I choose to do my own delivery and the only persistently difficult provider is Microsoft’s free email offerings which I care about about as much as they care about running a reliable mail system for their users. They seem to penalize infrequent low volume senders. I have always been signed up to their spam monitoring bullshit and have never had a negative report but they don’t seem to communicate there so you can be blocked and nobody knows how or why. They blocked most of my hosting provider once so I routed my outgoing email with correct dkim, spf etc from a server hosted elsewhere. Easy to do with Postfix.

      • legiosEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Yeah I found both Google and MS will arbitrarily act like dicks. Have it all sorted these days but still keeps me on my toes. Interestingly I can’t email myself from my work email address because the MS mail service they use fails SPF checks…

        All fun and games at the end of the day! :)