Okay brilliant and accomplished Mastodonians and Fediversians, it;'s time I consult the hive mind about self-hosting.
I've started to read up on this topic, but I haven't seen a clear answer to THIS question yet:
If I self-host from a desktop computer, must I keep it on all the time, or can I turn it off when I'm doing other things.
Specifically, will incoming emails get lost if they can't be delivered in a timely fashion?
My thanks again to all you wonderful souls.
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Depends on what you are self-hosting and how. if you only have 1 pc to work with, and you self-host lets say a mastodon instance, that should be kept on all the time, as otherwise it would not be connected with the Fediverse, hence missing updates. if you self-host Joplin, a notes taking web app, you could turn it off as it will be only you using it. So, public available instances = always on. Private web apps (notes, photos, music) up to you. Hope this helps 🤝
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> Specifically, will incoming emails get lost if they can't be delivered in a timely fashion?
expect email delivery to be retried up to a maximum of 5 days. Not sure if anyone is doing longer than that by default, and some modern email servers might cut that down to a shorter period before it considers a permanent failure.
And it won't retry as soon as you come back online because they won't know, so you have to be online during the window of the next scheduled retry which could be several hours
> Specifically, will incoming emails get lost if they can't be delivered in a timely fashion?
expect email delivery to be retried up to a maximum of 5 days. Not sure if anyone is doing longer than that by default, and some modern email servers might cut that down to a shorter period before it considers a permanent failure.
And it won't retry as soon as you come back online because they won't know, so you have to be online during the window of the next scheduled retry which could be several hours