SOHO Email Hosting or Alternatives

Python python at venix.com
Mon Apr 23 16:03:27 EDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:28 -0400, Ted Roche wrote:
> 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.

The easy way out is when the domain email addresses are simply aliases
and you have no responsibilities for the mail boxes.  For my kids, I
provide email addresses that simply forward to their school email
addresses.  

If you can avoid responsibility for usernames, passwords, disk quotas
and the like, life stays reasonably easy.  So let the ISP that provides
the SOHO with a connection also provide some mail boxes.  You configure
the domain and setup domain addresses that simply forward to the real
mail boxes.  

> 
> 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.

-- 
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp



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