I did the same. I could have tolerated the random delivery issues, but my immediate family members were understandably irked the moment things didn't work perfectly.
After running the service for 20+ years, I was tired of it. Tired of the continual war against spam. Tired of annoying corner cases that I had to fix on my end because the giant corp sending demonstrably malformed messages to me wasn't going to correct their system. Tired of this week's Mysterious New RHBL breaking connectivity. Tired of not being able to effectively filter email the same way giants do, because I only see a tiny sliver of messages and can't identify bulk senders.
I appreciate and respect anyone still hosting their own email. I did it for many, many years, and feel their pain. It wore me out.
(The nail in the coffin was Apple offering free email hosting for iCloud+ users. It checked the right boxes for my family's needs, at an incremental price of $0.00 over what I was already paying them.)
After running the service for 20+ years, I was tired of it. Tired of the continual war against spam. Tired of annoying corner cases that I had to fix on my end because the giant corp sending demonstrably malformed messages to me wasn't going to correct their system. Tired of this week's Mysterious New RHBL breaking connectivity. Tired of not being able to effectively filter email the same way giants do, because I only see a tiny sliver of messages and can't identify bulk senders.
I appreciate and respect anyone still hosting their own email. I did it for many, many years, and feel their pain. It wore me out.
(The nail in the coffin was Apple offering free email hosting for iCloud+ users. It checked the right boxes for my family's needs, at an incremental price of $0.00 over what I was already paying them.)