# Discourse on DigitalOcean with SMTP server on HostGator

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-on-digitalocean-with-smtp-server-on-hostgator/287615>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [December 5, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-on-digitalocean-with-smtp-server-on-hostgator/287615 "2023-12-05T18:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Varlov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/varlov/32/346873_2.png) [@Varlov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Varlov)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-on-digitalocean-with-smtp-server-on-hostgator/287615/3 "2023-12-05T18:39:24Z")

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What I meant is I don’t want to use Mailgun, etc. as I can’t have that as an extra cost at the moment. Very few people have their own mail server running in their house 😛 . I can save on that cost by using a server which I already have. I hope I cleared that up 🙂

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