[svlug] VPS recommendations?

[Zack Zatkin-Gold]

DigitalOcean is an excellent provider for a VPS.  I also used to run my own e-mail server with them, but fighting the spam with Postfix + Dovecot + other software's configuration tweaks started to get taxxing after ten years.  So I moved my e-mail to Fastmail and I've enjoyed it ever since.

So all in all i would recommend doing DigitalOcean for a shell/files/web service, and Fastmail for e-mail.

Best of luck,
Zack

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024, at 01:51, ead-svlug at ixian.com wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good VPS, a virtual private server, for my domain?
> 
> ixian.com has been hosted at sonic.net for maybe 20 years now, but hosting is now a legacy service to them. They took shell access away earlier this year (2024), and their help desk tells me they no longer offer a secure way for domain holders to copy files up to them, only insecure FTP. Ridiculous and disappointing.
> 
> So I'm looking for a (BSD or Linux) server where I can:
> 
>         - host my domain
>         - receive domain email (to *@ixian.com)
>         - from which I download email to home with IMAP or what have you (I don't possess the expertise or inclination to run my own mail server)
>         - have shell access
>         - host a simple, basically static web site
>         - keep some files (less than 1 GB)
> 
> I (presently, sadly) get Internet connectivity via Comcast, so I don't need a connectivity solution.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your thoughts (or clarifying questions),
> Eric
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> Eric De Mund
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