SOHO Email Hosting or Alternatives

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Mon Apr 23 15:28:40 EDT 2007


Ed lawson wrote:

> Maybe this is more than a SOHO without any technical support would want
> to deal with, but there are some very nice VPS deals around that would
> provide a SOHO essentially the same thing as a co-located server.  I
> had to deal with this recently for myself and was happy with the
> options I found.

I was hoping to avoid more services to administer. I'm already admining
a number of in-house servers, workstations, MythTV front- and back-ends
and doing backups and disaster recovery and routing and intrusion
detection and...

... and my sysadmin's not all that bright. I'd hate to have my email
depending on him, too.

But I do want to try out some of the new VPS facilities to host a couple
of dinky web sites. It does seem like a great deal!

> Basically I got a Debian Etch virtual machine that is mine to do with
> as I choose.  Apache with all the goodies, Mysql, email with
> spamassassin, DNS if I want.  Actually, whatever I want in terms of
> MTA, etc.  300G/month traffic.  $29/month.

Hmmm. Pretty tempting.

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com



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