I wanna say it was in 2020 that I decided to pull the plug and move my domain to a .ca address, I made the mistake of using hosthero as my host. I wanted to stop paying apple for their hide my email feature when the boycott the US thing started so I went to hosthero and saw what they could do for me, it was going to be considerably more expensive but I would get to make up my own scheme for emails. As I dropped US services and looked for replacements, I fell into the hobby of self hosting. I had myself a plan it was going to take me 3 months to do everything I wanted to do. I was going to be flexible and give myself 2 weeks if the one weekend was not going to be enough to setup my mail server once I got my static IPs, more than enough time I thought. I was having so much troubles getting my smtp working I had got the MX records all figured out and port 25 opened on one of my IP addresses, after I realized I was just going to pull my hair out if I was going to do it I looked into the email hosting at easyDNS as I had dropped hosthero because I could easily self host my simple blog already and I did not need to be paying HostHero so much, easyDNS offers a wild card option for email so I do not need to spend actual time creating a new email address.