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I am trying to get a local org I am in set up with a domain and website just to have a place to point people for everything. We would like to keep it as cheap as possible. I figure we need the following:

-Domain name (going to use namecheap probably)

-VPS host (I haven't done this before, it looks like racknerd may be way to go?). I assume I will probably only need 1GB of memory as it will just be a static webserver but that may be too little, not 100% sure.

-Email host. This is one of two real reasons I want to own the domain, we have multiple uses for email but currently everything is under one gmail address and a lot gets lost in the clutter. A few people in our org would like to stick with gmail but I am open to other suggestions. Definitely do not want to deal with self hosting on this.

-Website builder. I plan to use an Ubuntu server with the LEMP stack on the VPS, should I just use Wordpress? I am definitely not experienced in website building so it's not realistic to do my own HTTP. My only concern is using Wordpress will result in a poorly optimized site that may strain my limited resources, but there are also a few people in our org that have experience with it so that would help.

While I have a decent amount of tech experience generally, these are mostly uncharted waters for me. I know this comes across as kind of half baked, but really I am just looking for general advice!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Whatsapp can be replaced by Signal at the very least. If you're in a whatsapp chat and somebody decides to use the report feature, your keys get sent to Facebook and the entire chat is decrypted.

Whatsapp also is a bigger vector for scammers and spammers while those have been extremely rare for me on Signal (like once or twice in a few years).