Matthew X. Economou
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Matthew X. Economou
@xenophonf.bsky.social
SPAAACCCCCE! SPAAACE! YEEEHAAAAAW!
But nowadays? Sheer, bloody-mindedness. I've run my own stuff at home for so long that I can't imagine doing otherwise. /fin
September 12, 2023 at 12:17 PM
It's well past time to replace the poor thing. 😅

A lot of my friends wonder why I self-host stuff. At the beginning, it was mostly because I was stuck doing desktop support and wanted to get as close as I could to experiencing "real" enterprise IT. /4
September 12, 2023 at 12:17 PM
About 5 years later, I switched to Exchange, eventually migrating to SBS 2003 some time in 2005. That same SBS install has served me since, surviving equipment moves and hardware upgrades and physical-to-virtual migrations and, lately, very, very careful isolation from the rest of the Internet. /3
September 12, 2023 at 12:17 PM
It was terrible!

I looked through my backups trying to figure out what I used to self-host email back then. Probably sendmail on an old Packard Bell running either Debian or OpenBSD. (I ran my own DNS, too—good old BIND v4.) /2
September 12, 2023 at 12:16 PM