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Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server?

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On 7/31/20 12:31 PM, Didar Hossain wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 07:25:42AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
>> On 7/31/20 3:29 AM, Didar Hossain wrote:
>>> I read around a little and it seems that most cloud providers block SMTP ports
>>> (25,587,465) from/t the internet as well sometimes from within their network.
>>> This poses a real problem for my deployment plans. Also, note that my design has
>>> separate MSA (submission), Mailstore (IMAP) and MTA (MX) nodes.
>> I have never heard that. Many home ISPs block those ports, but VPS
>> providers generally are serving a business market. My own VPS is
>> with RimuHosting (https://rimuhosting.com) and they block no ports.
>> The most economical one I have heard of
>> (https://nosupportlinuxhosting.com/) certainly does not, and you will
>> find it hard to beat the price.
> Ahh, RimuHosting is indeed on my option list. The other guys are providing
> CPanel/WHM preconfigured instances; I want to fully customize my minimal Buster
> instance.
>
>> You mentioned wanting your host to be physically based in India,
>> but I'm not sure that's important unless you expect very heavy
>> traffic and need very short response times. My Rimuhosting VPS
>> has moved from New Zealand to Long Island, New York (east cost
>> of the USA) to Dallas, Texas (southwestern USA, about 2400 km
>> away) and for what I do (web hosting and mail, mostly) it has
>> made no detectable difference.
> Hosting in India is a preference, not a hard requirement. I am happy to know
> that Rimu are not blocking ports.

For whatever it is worth, my Debian VPS on Rimuhosting is
currently serving four low-traffic domains, for web and mail,
including three WordPress instances. Postfix for MTA,
Dovecot for IMAP, RoundCube for webmail. I don't bother
hosting my own DNS at the moment.

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Carl Fink                           nitpicking@nitpicking.com

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[OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Didar Hossain <didar@purlo.in> - 2020-07-31 09:30 +0200
  Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-31 11:40 +0200
    Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Didar Hossain <didar@purlo.in> - 2020-07-31 18:30 +0200
      Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-31 20:50 +0200
  Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-07-31 13:10 +0200
    Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Didar Hossain <didar@purlo.in> - 2020-07-31 18:30 +0200
  Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2020-07-31 13:30 +0200
  Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-07-31 13:30 +0200
    Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Didar Hossain <didar@purlo.in> - 2020-07-31 18:40 +0200
      Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-07-31 20:40 +0200
    Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-07-31 21:10 +0200
      Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-07-31 22:50 +0200
  Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-07-31 14:10 +0200
    Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Didar Hossain <didar@purlo.in> - 2020-07-31 18:40 +0200
      Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-07-31 19:40 +0200
  Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-07-31 16:00 +0200
    Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2020-07-31 16:20 +0200
    Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Didar Hossain <didar@purlo.in> - 2020-07-31 19:00 +0200
      Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-08-01 06:10 +0200
  Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server? Didar Hossain <didar@purlo.in> - 2020-07-31 18:50 +0200

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