Re: [OT] Requesting feedback for VPS/Cloud for email (MX) server?
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:59:06PM +0530, Didar Hossain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to host my own email on the cloud - I don't want to use G Suite or any
> other commercial service because I would like to have control over my email.
>
> 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 shortlisted Digital Ocean and Linode for my use because both of
> datacenters in India. Is anyone using either of them for MX service?
>
> Any and all feedback is most welcome including specialist/small VPS providers
> who I can consider to host the MX node for my domain at least.
>
I persoally use Linode for the last four years. You can easily host a
not very busy MX on the smallest Linode (a Nanode) and the don't block
any ports. They also make it trivially easy to go between different
"sizes" of Linodes.
The only problem I have is that when I first started, the IP of one my
MXs had previously been used by a spammer and so was on some blacklists.
I had to request the removal from the lists. However, the same thing
happened to me nearly 20 years ago when I set up my first MX on a hard
wired on-premesis server with a static IP, so that phenomenon is not
unique to cloud hosting.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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