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You're seriously asking what benefits hosting my own email and cloud has over using 'free' services like gmail? Not letting google scan my emails is not a benefit privacy wise?
No I am not, I am asking why you are hosting that on a rented VPS instead of your own server
Because it's easier, more practical and cheaper.
This is a dead end, I am asking you of privacy benefits of a VPS and you say ”all of them” but you give me none. What’s the point?
I think the answer you are looking for is less privacy oriented than OP understands it to be. The benefit of renting computational resources someplace outside your control is e.g. that it allows you to send mails to known providers which otherwise would refuse your mail if you would sent them originatig from a private IP address or e.g. having a always on cloud storage without running a computer in your basement 24/7 etc.
None? I explained that the benefit is I'm not using a 'free', public service that scans my data. If you didn't get this very simple, clearly stated benefit than yes, this is a dead end.
I get that, but that is not what I asked for. So yeah, dead end :P
I assume what you're getting at is that there has to be an element of trust in that the server being remote you can't be 100% sure it's untampered with?
Much the same rationale can be applied to VPN's, private email, private domain registration. At some point you have to do your research and decide if you trust the provider or not. There are providers out there that allow anonymous renting via Monero payments etc and also allow you to install OS's based on an image you control as oppose to the standard ones they offer. If you combine that with private domain registration and connecting whilst on a good VPN that's much more private than something like GMail.
And yes you could do all that from a home based server but then you're dependant on your ISP always being up etc.
Thank you, I appreciate your non-douchy response