On March 26, 2017 4:57:00 AM GMT+02:00, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: >Hello, > >In the next few weeks I need to move my email server (a very old Gentoo >installation) from the closet in my home, into the cloud so that I can >go travelling and access my mail from anywhere. > >I've never used VM's before, but my understanding is that they look >just like a normal machine to the users inside them, and there >shouldn't be any problem with me getting used to them. My current mail >server is an old 700mhz Pentium III (I think), so performance is >unimportant. I guess VM's have some kind of web or VNC console I can >log into for the initial install (and if I screw up remote access)? > >1. Are these suppositions right? >2. Any recommendations for cheap / reliable hosting providers, please? > >I expect to use Gentoo because I've hardly used any other distro for >years, and find others less intuitive. > >Thanks, > >Stroller.
I use a Dutch VPS provider: http://www.vpsdirect.nl They are quite good and reliable (and not expensive either). Don't officially support Gentoo, but they support uploading your own ISO image to boot from. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
