# Guidance for Setting Up Discourse: Hetzner VDS + Namecheap Private Email SMTP

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/guidance-for-setting-up-discourse-hetzner-vds-namecheap-private-email-smtp/382532
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [September 13, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guidance-for-setting-up-discourse-hetzner-vds-namecheap-private-email-smtp/382532 "2025-09-13T16:23:57Z")
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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guidance-for-setting-up-discourse-hetzner-vds-namecheap-private-email-smtp/382532/12 "2025-09-14T00:31:52Z")

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I’m fairly certain NameCheap Private Email isn’t a transactional mail service (I can’t find anything to say it is?). Discourse recommends a transactional mail service be used. You may encounter problems like [this](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-not-to-be-sent-to-the-spam-folder/135625) if you use things like NameCheap Private Email. If it works for you, then 🤷.

The transactional mail providers I suggested above are mostly free (except Amazon SES, but it’s still quite cheap). Brevo is 300/day, IIRC Mailgun is 100/day.

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