On 8/16/2017 6:00 PM, Stroller wrote:
On 26 Mar 2017, at 03:57, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
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.
A few months ago I asked for hosting recommendations, and was surprised not to
receive any mention of Amazon's cloud services.
I thought reason might be that Amazon's cloud servers are different from a
regular VM, but today saw someone on the Postfix list state that they're
running it on an AWS instance.
Has anyone tried running Gentoo on AWS or did this go unmentioned because it's
impossible?
Stroller.
I use AWS instances extensively at work and they have been incredibly
reliable and after initially learning the tools they're very convenient
to manage (IMNHO of course.)
I've used the AWS free tier EC2 to set up a Gentoo instance using a
public AMI to base it on. It worked OK and I'm certain I could have
figured out how to set it up from scratch too.
The free tier is a micro instance which may or may not suit your
purposes. It's probably fine for a mail server and low traffic web server.
If you do set up a mail server in AWS you need to contact support to get
them to remove throttling they automatically have in place for mail
(port 25.) It wasn't a hassle to do, I just asked and they quickly
removed the throttling.
However, I decided to go with a Linode instance instead, mostly due to
pricing.
Once I wanted multiple CPU cores and more memory I couldn't justify the
AWS cost to myself for a personal machine.
Linode has been incredibly reliable for me as well and I run Gentoo
there also.
Todd
