hi everyone,
I was just about to self-host a Ghost blog but then was warned that my ISP might change my external IP address at any time, so I would need to pay for a static IP address.
Is that true?
(I’d not seen much about that in stuff I’ve looked up so far about self hosting)
I run an smtp relay exactly for that kind of stuff with emails. Clients still like wordpress and this is easy to use, many other will accept an smtp relay/service like say gmail (the first one I could think of)
Yeah that’s another option as well… Services like dynu.com or smtp2go.com do exist… but you have to pay for them and there is a risk that the service can open/read your messages.
chance you take with pretty much everything you don’t control. I do use as much as I can to protect emails (not that much really)
Well yes… but if you’re goal to self-host is to control your data, it’s a bit counter productive to use those relays services that inject that problem right back into your setup again.
Edit: I’m not necessarily arguing… just putting the information out there that the services exist, but might not be a good fit.