Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:52:26 +0000 From: Lucius Rizzo <Lucius.Rizzo@Lucius.XxX> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> Subject: Re: Recommend FreeBSD VPS Message-ID: <20140219215226.GA4051@lucius.XxX> In-Reply-To: <98B6A42D-9A63-4E59-BEEB-C82B497B4AA1@bway.net> References: <CAA_8tFppzy7iyzp7T802rXup7LrELs0_uVx1chc0jg-3ak2JFw@mail.gmail.com> <5303B8F3.8090709@vangyzen.net> <5303E549.8020106@bluerosetech.com> <E1WG5QD-0006OB-1b@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> <98B6A42D-9A63-4E59-BEEB-C82B497B4AA1@bway.net>
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* Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> [2014-02-19 15:53]: > On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:34 AM, Pete French wrote: > > > Not sure if what you are after is ajils, but I have had excellent > > experience with Exonetric in the UK. They are the only people I now > > use for FreeBSD hosting, both real hardware and jails. > > Most of these were coming from ColoCrossing IP space. I suggest > googling that company and looking up their blocks on your favorite > RBLs, as there is a bit of drama there, but do note that many of the > very low-cost VPS operations seem to be using this company. > > Be aware of who your neighbors are if your VPS needs to send email, > or if you feel icky about getting a cheap VPS by moving into a shady > neighborhood. I echo your concern. ArsTechnica is running a series on how to run your own mail server. Its actually well laid out. However, running a MTA (Or the entire mail/web) infrastructure is not an easy endeavor. Nor is it always done right. Having newbs delve into this world - past the SEO blogging wordpress spam, will just mean that others who do legitimately run a proper mail server will suffer as increased proliferation of newbs setting up a misconfigured mail server (maybe even have some silly phpsendmail() that is exploited) spam increases. DigitalOcean is quickly becoming very popular and I think are poised to find themselves in a situation like this. However, like any VPS provider, spamming is one of many concerns. I have watched them struggle with massive DDOS on a daily basis... Another very legitimate concerns in spam will be burdened with the plethora of New TLD's hitting the market (I shouldn't really complain I now have two .guru and one .ventures) in 2014. We do however have many layers before messages hit our mail servers... -- | _o _ |_)o_ _ _ |_|_|(_||_|_> | \|/_/_(_) - Lucius.Tel -------------------------------------- ++ "In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble." ++ ++ -- Alan Perlis ++
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