Knowing that, I started looking at every SaaS subscription very differently.
Middle ground you’ve got stuff like Ansible for if you want to install things without containers, but still want it to be scripted. I don’t use these much since they feel like the worst of both worlds.
Higher end in terms of effort is using something like NixOS, where you get basically Terraform for everything in your distro.
- You dont actually own the domain, you kind of lease it, and will have to pay every year for renewal. The renewal price can be significantly higher than the "purchase" price, so be carefull to pick one with a low renewal price. I dont really know if there is any guarantee against the renewal-price increasing in the future, so you might end up kind of stuck.
- The email provider must support using a custom domain, which many do on their paid plan.
- Some support "catch-all" feature, that emails sendt to any adressess @yourdomain.com goes into the mailbox. Then you can register at places with e.g hackernews@yourdomain.com or possiblespamsite@yourdomain.com. But if you do this you can only move to other providers providing the same in the future. You can not neccesarrily send from the same adresses though!
Some previous discussion:
Presuming you're a relatively non-technical person who follows this verbatim, what happens when this page goes down? Or Vultr is no longer an option? Do you even really know what you've set up?
