Guys, I'm looking for a new provider to host my domain, which is mostly email only. Some small web presense. I'm currently on Linode, but since Charter is blocking all of Linode's IP space from sending email... it kinda makes it hard to keep in touch with neighbors who have @charter.net email addresses. Don't want to spend a ton,but I would like to get something with a dedicated IP and 2gb of RAM, or maybe a little more. Not much more than that. I don't want any management, I'll do it all myself. John
I don't know if this is competitive or not but I have been using Panix to host my domain for a long time and never had any serious issues with them. https://www.panix.com/v-colo/plans.html#chart1 On 12/5/22 17:05, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
Guys, I'm looking for a new provider to host my domain, which is mostly email only. Some small web presense. I'm currently on Linode, but since Charter is blocking all of Linode's IP space from sending email... it kinda makes it hard to keep in touch with neighbors who have @charter.net email addresses.
Don't want to spend a ton,but I would like to get something with a dedicated IP and 2gb of RAM, or maybe a little more. Not much more than that. I don't want any management, I'll do it all myself.
John
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I can recommend Vultr's (cloud compute) VPS, which is a few dollars monthly. -- Sincerely, Keegan Kuhn ________________________________________ From: John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2022 5:05 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion Cc: John Stoffel Subject: [EXT] [WLUG] Looking for a good VPS provider Guys, I'm looking for a new provider to host my domain, which is mostly email only. Some small web presense. I'm currently on Linode, but since Charter is blocking all of Linode's IP space from sending email... it kinda makes it hard to keep in touch with neighbors who have @charter.net email addresses. Don't want to spend a ton,but I would like to get something with a dedicated IP and 2gb of RAM, or maybe a little more. Not much more than that. I don't want any management, I'll do it all myself. John _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwlug.mailm... Change Settings: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwlug.mailm... Web Forum/Archive: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwlug.mailm...
I second this. I love Vultr. Cheap too. On Mon, Dec 5, 2022, 5:22 PM Kuhn, Keegan via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I can recommend Vultr's (cloud compute) VPS, which is a few dollars monthly.
-- Sincerely, Keegan Kuhn
________________________________________ From: John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2022 5:05 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion Cc: John Stoffel Subject: [EXT] [WLUG] Looking for a good VPS provider
Guys, I'm looking for a new provider to host my domain, which is mostly email only. Some small web presense. I'm currently on Linode, but since Charter is blocking all of Linode's IP space from sending email... it kinda makes it hard to keep in touch with neighbors who have @charter.net email addresses.
Don't want to spend a ton,but I would like to get something with a dedicated IP and 2gb of RAM, or maybe a little more. Not much more than that. I don't want any management, I'll do it all myself.
John
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"Jason" == Jason Couture via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
I second this. I love Vultr.
If you're running a mail server on Vultr, can you send an email to jstoffel@charter.net as a test please?
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022, 5:22 PM Kuhn, Keegan via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I can recommend Vultr's (cloud compute) VPS, which is a few dollars monthly.
-- Sincerely, Keegan Kuhn
________________________________________ From: John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2022 5:05 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion Cc: John Stoffel Subject: [EXT] [WLUG] Looking for a good VPS provider
Guys, I'm looking for a new provider to host my domain, which is mostly email only. Some small web presense. I'm currently on Linode, but since Charter is blocking all of Linode's IP space from sending email... it kinda makes it hard to keep in touch with neighbors who have @charter.net email addresses.
Don't want to spend a ton,but I would like to get something with a dedicated IP and 2gb of RAM, or maybe a little more. Not much more than that. I don't want any management, I'll do it all myself.
John
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Thanks Chris! This plus the $10 they want up front should get me going for testing purposes for a year at least! John
I realize this is resolved, but I'll (semi-selfishly) send out two more quick things: For one, if any of y'all wanted to try any others - or maybe you have some jobs you'd like to offload to the cloud temporarily, here's some more free credits: https://www.linode.com/lan (from "Linux Action News" - $100 on Linode) As a side-note (if you care) Linode is an Akamai company now (has been for several months IIRC). And this is where I get selfish - this here is a personal one - I haven't heard any ads for DigitalOcean. for a while: https://m.do.co/c/305f9963f488 - $200 (I think you have to use within 60 days) If you do use D.O., opt for the Premium AMD systems - they are much faster. Secondly: in re: Linode being blocked for email, I'm finding it hard to verify this (and in fact, I see evidence to the contrary). Are you certain that your mail server is not listed on any blacklists? If you are getting an "AUP#In-1000" this would indicate a UCE listing. You can try the community forums to get more information about the issue. Otherwise, you can also use e.g. MailGun (not so cheap) or SendGrid (has free tiers) as your outbound SMTP server. I've had to do this on a number of occasions, and they also have API for hooking up e.g. Drupal mail, etc. Regards, Chris On 12/8/22 12:11, Chris (wolcen) Thompson via WLUG wrote:
Here's $150 for Vultr :-)
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:10:24PM -0500, Chris (wolcen) Thompson via WLUG wrote:
Secondly: in re: Linode being blocked for email, I'm finding it hard to verify this (and in fact, I see evidence to the contrary). Are you certain that your mail server is not listed on any blacklists? If you are getting an "AUP#In-1000" this would indicate a UCE listing. You can try the community forums to get more information about the issue.
Linode automatically blocks standard SMTP ports (25, 465, and 587) to combat spam. You can get them to lift the block per-node by submitting a support ticket, it was pretty easy for me to do when I was still on Linode. -- Cara
"Cara" == Cara Salter via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 03:10:24PM -0500, Chris (wolcen) Thompson via WLUG wrote:
Secondly: in re: Linode being blocked for email, I'm finding it hard to verify this (and in fact, I see evidence to the contrary). Are you certain that your mail server is not listed on any blacklists? If you are getting an "AUP#In-1000" this would indicate a UCE listing. You can try the community forums to get more information about the issue.
Linode automatically blocks standard SMTP ports (25, 465, and 587) to combat spam. You can get them to lift the block per-node by submitting a support ticket, it was pretty easy for me to do when I was still on Linode.
Just to followup here, Linode is NOT blocking port 25 either inbound or outbound, nor 465 or 587. I've been running stoffel.org on there with mail and http for years now. It's only email TO @charter.net which is being blocked. And I've looked at all the UCE blacklists and my IP isn't listed. *shrug* Not much else I can do. Right now I'm playing with vultr VPS to see how that works and if I run into problems, but I honestly see me moving to panix down the line. I'm happy to pay more for a better service where I can run my own VPS and mail setup. More as I get this moving better over the Xmas downtime.
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 07:49:58PM -0500, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
It's only email TO @charter.net which is being blocked. And I've looked at all the UCE blacklists and my IP isn't listed. *shrug* Not much else I can do.
Did you configure SPF and DKIM and DMARC? If not, that might be why Charter is blocking your email.
"Chuck" == Chuck Anderson via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 07:49:58PM -0500, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
It's only email TO @charter.net which is being blocked. And I've looked at all the UCE blacklists and my IP isn't listed. *shrug* Not much else I can do.
Did you configure SPF and DKIM and DMARC? If not, that might be why Charter is blocking your email.
I have SPF configured, haven't done DKIM and DMARC quite yet.
On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 05:05:31PM -0500, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
Guys, Don't want to spend a ton,but I would like to get something with a dedicated IP and 2gb of RAM, or maybe a little more. Not much more than that. I don't want any management, I'll do it all myself.
I run my email server on a netcup[1] VPS. It's pretty cheap, and I haven't run into any deliverability issues. Be well, Cara [1]: https://netcup.eu
Hi Cara, Care to send an email to 'jstoffel@charter.net' as a test? Let's see if that gets blocked.... :-) John
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