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+<!-- Title: Reasons not to host an email server -->
+
+## Reasons to not host your own email server.
+
+Last summer, I had successfully managed to host my email server but 
+a couple of days ago I completely removed everything from my server
+and purchased an email hosting service.
+
+I'd like to share my experience with setting up an email server
+and what makes the process an absolute nightmare.
+
+### - It's hard to find an affordable VPS provider that doesn't block port 25. 
+
+If you don't know anything about email, you need the port 25 to be open to send mails but 
+most server providers block it to reduce spam and the ones that don't costs more than
+the usual ones.
+
+### - Getting a domain and IP that is not blacklisted.
+
+If you have already bought a domain it might be blacklisted meaning that 
+all the mails you'll send is going to go right into the spam folder of the receiver.
+It's the same for IP but chaining it is a lot easier than getting a new domain on most 
+server providers.
+
+### - Not enough documentation is available and some is outdated.
+
+There aren't that much documentation for mail services, I think partially because of
+the process being so tough that no one really wants to document it and there are so many commands 
+involved in the process even just a small update on one program can make the documentation outdated.
+
+### - It's very hard to set up.
+Configuring an email server was perhaps the hardest thing that I'd ever done 
+(even after finding the proper documentation), I spent weeks on that.
+
+### - Almost certainly, Your mails won't be delivered.
+
+Even after going through the very difficult process of finding the correct server provider, 
+documentation and setting everything up (DKIM, SPF etc.) you'll still end up in spams
+you might be able to pass spam filters of some email services, but you'll never feel 
+confident of sending mails because because big email services sometimes update their spam filters
+and you got to keep up with those as well, so it doesn't just end there when you set it up.
+
+### Summing it up
+
+I'd gladly host an email server, but I just can't make it work half as good as the paid 
+email service providers. In the future I might try to do it again 
+(though I don't think the results will be different) but now I'll stick to email services.