Reflections on running my own mail server for 10 years
Reflections on running my own mail server for 10 years
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Article is not great, but I share the general sentiment that running your own email is not difficult. Setup takes some time, but once done - it's just a regular linux server, nothing fancy about it. Letsencrypt takes care of the certs, cron takes care of rebooting when necessary.
Reboot? Since when does Linux need a reboot? I've been thinking about migrating from FreeBSD to Linux, but now I am confused.
It has always needed a reboot when it comes to kernel or init. Same applies to BSDs.
You mean when you update the kernel? No one updates init on BSDs. This is mostly a entire world upgrade. But I'd never reboot from cron. My servers run 100 days without a reboot on average. In most cases there is no reason to update world, only the packages.
Keeping your kernel updated is definitely recommend
Of course, but I can see and understand what is patched and can see if I'm affected or not. In the previous version I haven't been affected for 500 days.