<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>allset_</author><text>The required subscription also means it&amp;#x27;s useless if they go out of business.</text><parent_chain><item><author>satyanash</author><text>Dockerized Nextcloud + Postfix + Dovecot + Strongswan + OpenLDAP + SpamAssassin running on an ARM machine.&lt;p&gt;Sounds mostly alright, although it seems you cannot buy it without the $99&amp;#x2F;yearly subscription, which makes me wary.&lt;p&gt;Sure, a static IP and domain registration is good, but it ought to be an optional addon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Helm is a personal server that lives where you do</title><url>https://thehelm.com/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gsreenivas</author><text>Hi there - co-founder&amp;#x2F;CEO of Helm here.&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t make the subscription optional at this time because the overwhelming majority of people on the Internet do not have a static IP address with a corresponding PTR record, which is required if you want to have deliverable email. There are other ways to handle domain registration, DNS and backups on your own, but we believe the subscription is a pretty great value for the convenience it provides.</text><parent_chain><item><author>satyanash</author><text>Dockerized Nextcloud + Postfix + Dovecot + Strongswan + OpenLDAP + SpamAssassin running on an ARM machine.&lt;p&gt;Sounds mostly alright, although it seems you cannot buy it without the $99&amp;#x2F;yearly subscription, which makes me wary.&lt;p&gt;Sure, a static IP and domain registration is good, but it ought to be an optional addon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Helm is a personal server that lives where you do</title><url>https://thehelm.com/</url></story>