For context, I’m in the States.

I already have a Tuta mail account so I figure for mail/calendar/soon-drive I’ll stick to them but what about other services?

Ideally I can try with a free tier before committing. iOS and Android and Linux are the platforms used in my household.

Still looking for:

  • password manager
  • vpn
  • authenticator
  • less important: docs/sheets

I was all in on proton services because it was easy for my family to switch from google and still have all these services in one place but now I’m more open to spreading these services out to more than one provider in case any of them shit the bed so to speak.

Thanks!

edit:

  • probably staying with proton’s authenticator
  • I’m sure most here won’t agree but my entire household uses firefox on desktop/mobile and my wife and I just decided to use firefox’s built in pw manager + sync for pw management. Please understand that convenience is top of mind for us tbh, out lives are too busy to be overly concerned with what to choose here.
  • waiting for tuta drive to start using that but backed up out drives to a couple external drives and will just use that until tuta drive is released.
  • vpn is still tbd
  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    It’s an interesting project to set up your own mail server but it’s not simple, especially if you’ve never hosted a public-facing service like that before. It’s a good way of learning the ins-and-outs of hosting, DNS, certificates, networking, etc but you really need to want to do it and it’s not worth doing for its own sake, imho. Initial setup is a pain in the ass, but ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting is awful.