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 think all ISP should be fine. I sometime feel for a mailserver it is
more important to have a decent DNS provider than where you actually
run your mailserver. Because as a minimum you want to set up
SPF and DKIM.
Most ISP require to register an outgoing mail server with them. This
is also important that they set up a reverse ptr for your host.
One note on Digital Ocean. In my experience there is a lot of spam
originating from Digital Ocean. This potentially could cause you
some trouble. But this might be just my personal "feeling". I never
ran the numbers on ISP spam submission rates.
I currently use AWS for my mailservers. In the past I used
A1flexus for dedicated servers. They are on Long Island
and were very "linux friendly" at that time.
-H
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