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New comment by willy__ in "Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026"

willy__ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:26:26 +0000

How do you tell? I am genuinely curious. I myself find it incredibly rude that people will accuse you of "slop" the moment you basically write anything.

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willy__ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:21:19 +0000

thank you for the kind words.

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willy__ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:19:37 +0000

That's why I ended up writing the article. I had some comments under my last post in the "worlds collide" category that I personally could not fathom.

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willy__ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:18:23 +0000

You hit the nail on the head.

Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026

willy__ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:29:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coinerella.com/dont-host-email-yourself-your-reminder-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120901

Points: 48

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New comment by willy__ in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:06:58 +0000

Well.. it's the flip side of those social logins being known and proven conversion boosters. If you actively decide against them, you are losing a low effort tool to boost your CR.

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:24:37 +0000

Wow, gotta check out INWX. I am paying in the 50s now..so double the cost..No VAT at porkbun!

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:10:50 +0000

Thank you!

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:07:10 +0000

Hetzner is juggling quite a bit of legacy systems (konesoleH, Robot) around at the same time.. bare metal (root) is still on Robot, a system from the early 2000s I believe.. konsoleH is for classic website hosting and console is what oyu need for cloud. They are progressively moving over stuff to console now, DNS and Storage Boxes have recently moved.

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:05:35 +0000

Interesting! I will think about the Spotify thing. I will pass on your bank account for now, thank you.

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:31:25 +0000

Google Ads does "kind of" work in the niche I am in, usually with low competition key words.... but I did stop throwing money at it. I am never going to return the investment per conversion... but if you want a search engine to throw your money at.. it is still pretty much without alternative to me.

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:21:56 +0000

I am simply not at that phase yet... I considered revolut pay (UK) or adyen (NL)?

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:17:49 +0000

are you aware of https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s ? I am using it and I can wholeheartedly recommend.

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:11:05 +0000

I do understand what you mean with bias.. some models where quite stubbornly ignoring things like "I want made in EU - not GDRP compliant - not one office or data center in the EU". I remember this being especially painful for TEM and market email providers. Usually they suck at finding the right pricing data at first try.. so I ended up throwing screenshots of pricing pages. Now that I am writing this up, in some instances manually comparing them would have been faster :D ... The bias might come from the huge amount of US dominance in training data and might not even be intentional. In some niches you don't have many options, that's what I tried leaning on in the article.

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:05:07 +0000

paris, amsterdam, warsaw and I think they are launching or have launched recently in other places

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:03:57 +0000

I am trying to be on top of the legal stuff. I did start EU first with GDPR compliance and expanding to the UK was kind of low effort. Comparatively little changes are required. I might expand on that in a future article.. all that legal stuff was quite a bit of effort but I got lucky with my lawyer choice and felt very supported from them at reasonable cost.

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:00:15 +0000

Hanko can be self hosted, if needed - it is one of the few products I chose actively to NOT self host. I am aware of Authentik and do like it.

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:54:04 +0000

good catch, will fix.

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:51:15 +0000

I still have GLM/Qwen or Deepseek sometimes randomly adding Chinese characters to things... :)

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willy__ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:50:27 +0000

People usually have either one or the other account already, because it came with their smartphone. It is friction less from their point of view.