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		jraph on Dec 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running your own email is increasingly an artisana... Very low for one person with a few emails per day. They almost never appear in top on a 3€/month VPS server (2 vCPU, 2G RAM). They probably work well on quite limited hardware. But I guess it largely depends on traffic / on the number of hosted users.

bigiain on Dec 25, 2021 [–]

Doesn’t even need that. I’ve run pretty much that stack on an original Raspberry Pi. You wouldn’t want to be trying to do a lot else, and GB sized attachments are gonna be limited by the usb Ethernet speed, but it’ll run just fine.

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