Inleed.xyz has free email hosting with IMAP and POP3 access. You can have as many accounts as you want, but there’s a limit of 1GB shared between all of them.

They’ve had it for years. It can be difficult to sign up for though.

You get a lot of resources for free, but don’t use them for anything important. They can nuke your account for any reason.

Yes, they do require you to use their nameservers unless you have a business account.

I used to use dynv6, but I started having issues about 2 years ago. DNS records would just stop resolving until I deleted and recreated them. Their forum has been broken for years, so there’s no way to get support.

If you only need 5 records or less, give FreeDNS a try.

That means apps tend to stop working if the developers don’t keep updating them. Mobile operating systems much, much worse backwards compatibility than windows. If the device hosts its own website instead of using an app, it will most likely work fine decades from now without any updates.

Mobile apps bit rot pretty quickly when they stop updating them. A web UI would be better. A server or internet connection is not needed, a web UI can be hosted directly on the device.

Keep the firewall on dedicated hardware. You don’t want your whole network going down because you have to do some work on the server.

You can use the 3040 to build an AllStar node.

Mumble supports text chat and images too. Right click on a channel or user and select send message. There is an insert image button in the message window. I wish they would make it so you could just drag and drop an image though.

That hasn’t stopped the addresses from changing on any of the devices I’ve tried it on.

Android changes its IPv6 address daily. That makes it kinda hard to host anything on it. SLAAC would be fine too if it was a stable address.

Has anyone figured out how to make android use a static IPv6 address? If I have to run a reverse proxy on a real PC, I may as well just host the website from that PC.

That depends on what you are running on it. The Pi 5 will be one of the most energy efficient options, but it’s limited to USB and PCIe 2.0 x1 with an adapter for storage.

For email, you just pay for a host that will let you use your own domain. It’s usually a lot cheaper than getting a static IP and you can easily switch hosts while keeping your email address.

It’s not really even worth attempting to self host your own outbound email these days. It’s a lot of work getting the big email providers to accept your email and if someone has ever sent spam from your IP address, you are pretty much screwed.

I’ve been using KeePassXC. I use Syncthing to keep the database synchronized between computers.

You can enable file versioning so deleted files will be kept for a set amount of time.

It’s a switch, there shouldn’t be anything to go obsolete.

The only thing they are good at doing is producing loads of RFI and pissing off every ham radio operator in the area.

It only requires an outbound connection, which is needed if you’re stuck on CGNAT. It also provides DDoS protection and hides your IP address. It comes with the huge downside of using Cloudflare though.

Be sure to keep everything up to date too. Even openssh has had multiple vulnerabilities just this year.