Hi everybody! Can anyone recommend a VPS/VM host that understands people might want to use email? (VPS=Virtual Private Server, VM=Virtual Machine)
I (and GNHLUG) have been with Digital Ocean for several years now, and they've generally been good, but their attitude towards email has devolved to "Go away" and that doesn't meet my/our needs. I'm not looking for someone to hold me hand or run a relay for me. As long as they (1) allow use of mail service ports, (2) don't tell me I don't want to run email, and (3) respond to abuse reports against their other customers, I'm good. Linode, for example, blocks mail ports by default, but provides a reasonable-sounding procedure to get them unblocked, and claims to care about mail abuse. But that's one provider of many; I'd like to hear if others have experience. I/we need to be able to: - Receive email directly (run an SMTP listener on TCP port 25) - Send email directly (initiate outbound connections to TCP port 25) - Run a web server (HTTP/SSL listener on TCP ports 80 and 443) - Run an SSH listener on a non-standard port (remote access) - Run a DNS server on UDP and TCP port 53 (authoritative name server) - Install and run arbitrary Linux software - Fairly low volume for all traffic (mail, DNS, web, IP) - Fairly low CPU, disk, and RAM usage - Hand-holding software like "CPanel" is actively unwanted All I/we want the provider to do is: - Provide some kind of UI for low-level VM maintenance - Installation of operating system (canned images are fine) - Recovery of OS when SSH can't be used - Make sure the VM doesn't go down due to power or hardware fault - Make sure IP traffic keeps flowing - Respond to abuse reports to keep reputation at least somewhat OK -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
