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For what its worth, I use a very simple Postfix server for all my VPS system mails, and have had zero problems with it. I would, however, probably never use it for "real" email because thats so cheap to get hosted.
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xtal posted:I heard this a lot before setting up my own server and it made me really unsure about it, but after spending a (terrible) night setting it up there's been virtually nil maintenance needed for the last year. I could recommend hosting your own server. This argument (maintenance) comes from the crowd that sends lots of emails and needs to worry about blacklists as well as those who suddenly needed to worry about SPF or get junked as spam on gmail and others. When your primary job isn't "keep up on email security requirements to not get marked as spam", email isn't worth the hassle.
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Any recommendations for cheap dedicated servers in USWest that isn't Las Vegas? I need to pick up 10-20 machines for a high traffic production site that is just a nonprofit hobby/pet project.
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Biowarfare posted:Any recommendations for cheap dedicated servers in USWest that isn't Las Vegas? I need to pick up 10-20 machines for a high traffic production site that is just a nonprofit hobby/pet project. There are a couple providers in Phoenix that should be able to help you out. I don't know how well you're going to be able to mix "cheap" and 10-20 dedicated machines in a hosting facility though. Salt Fish fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 17, 2014 |
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MrBond posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for mail hosts? This isn't for business - more like a pro-sumer type and attempting to de-googlefy things a bit. About 6 months ago I switched all my personal email from Google Apps to http://fastmail.fm Initial setup was a bit confusing but the docs are very good (they actually have support as well but never thought to use them) Webmail interface is incredible, I much prefer it to Gmail. They've built it in house and it's extremely fast - way better than OWA or Horde or whatever.
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Granite Octopus posted:About 6 months ago I switched all my personal email from Google Apps to http://fastmail.fm Do they offer some kind of push email connection? Or is it just standard fetch IMAP?
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I was previously recommended here to set up Google Analytics for my wife's blog, and after he initial skepticism, she now watches it like it's some kind of crisis center control panel. Or rather, the live data is just too tasty to look away sometimes. She's experiencing a lot of direct traffic, which makes her skeptical. She was first assuming it just meant somebody somewhere was linking her stuff on some forums so everybody was making fun of it or something. It sounds instead like there are various technicalities that can cause stuff to become direct traffic. She's using a WordPress plugin to handle the analytics. Is there anything for which we should be checking?
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Granite Octopus posted:About 6 months ago I switched all my personal email from Google Apps to http://fastmail.fm How does it do with spam? In general, I've moved all of my mail over to Google Apps strictly because attempting to handle spam using any other hosted solution has become a pointless exercise in futility, at least so far as shared hosted goes.
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Killer_B posted:How does it do with spam? gmail manages to let through 2-3 spams a day for me. why?
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WTFDNS seems to have completely poo poo the bed. 
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Spectracide posted:WTFDNS seems to have completely poo poo the bed. Wasn't it a free service? Edit: or wait, was that WTFdns. Either way, it's both goon owned isn't it? 
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Spectracide posted:WTFDNS seems to have completely poo poo the bed. "How We Work. We have designed our DNS systems to be as fault tolerant as possible. Even if one piece of our infrastructure does go down we are still able to serve ..."
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eightysixed posted:Wasn't it a free service? Yep, it's free, goon-run, and has been flaky as hell lately (seemingly from when they switched from branding it as WTFDNS to AbiDNS).
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I think I switched my DNS to HE.net, or at least I must have because it's still working.
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Bob Morales posted:I think I switched my DNS to HE.net, or at least I must have because it's still working. Yea, I have multiple domain names all utilizing dns.he.net. I'd recommend them to anyone looking for a stable, free dns host.
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eightysixed posted:Yea, I have multiple domain names all utilizing dns.he.net. I'd recommend them to anyone looking for a stable, free dns host. Unfortunately they don't support wildcard dns records at all, and explicitly tell you so when you ask support to add one (or offer to pay for it too)
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If you're willing or able to run your own primary DNS, buddyns.com runs a very nice secondary service for free*. * - based on query volume, but high enough that you probably don't need to worry. Otherwise it's like $2/mo.
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The restrictions on dns.he.net (no wildcard records, some RR types not supported) don't apply to their secondary DNS service so you could also run your own authoritative DNS server and configure dns.he.net to replicate it as a slave
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Killer_B posted:How does it do with spam? Surprisingly excellent actually. It doesn't silently delete any as far as I know. I probably end up with about 3-5 a day in my junk mailbox, and it has been 100% accurate at picking up spam, and no false positives. Way, way better than I was expecting. YMMV of course.
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Linode posted this today: Network improvements coming I'd bet.
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Anyone got good experience with Digitalocean? Recently my RamNode VPS got suspended for "CPU abuse" even though I haven't touched it in forever, and I heard digitalocean is pretty good.
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I get a lot of packetloss or downtime enough to make monitoring bitch at me, half of the locations are disabled due to no capacity or something, no IPv6 [they told me it would be available in 2012. repeatedly.], no custom OS If you just want to run an irc client or something go wild. Anything serious don't bother.
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I really like DigitalOcean, but I don't do anything serious (none of the sites I host are particularly important or popular). I think the interface, knowledge base and price make it a great choice for babby's first vps. (probably not relevant for Cowabanga)
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Milkie Galore posted:The restrictions on dns.he.net (no wildcard records, some RR types not supported) don't apply to their secondary DNS service dns.he.net did not work for me as a slave with DNSSEC. My domain never validated. Instead I setup Gandi as my secondary and it worked fine.
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I like DO, but all I use it for is ssh tunneling and occasional testing of inane things that I want to test off my work's network. Not sure that I'd entrust anything critical to them, but it's certainly worth the $5 I spend.
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I use DO for irssi and some other small stuff. You get what you pay for at $5/mo. There was that horrible networking problem they had in NY a couple months back but since then I haven't had any issues.
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I used DO for several months while learning CentOS, Puppet, and general CJ stuff. That was with 1 $5 droplet, and 3 $10 droplets. Never had any issues.
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Well I host a private VPN, a shitton of vhosts, a mailserver, an rear end in a top hat PHP script that hogs at least 200mb of RAM (vbulltein) and that's pretty much the most noticable things. Am I better off with something better than DO?
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astr0man posted:You should probably just use linode. Pretty costy for only 1GB. I'm on a tight-ish budget, I used to pay $10.50 a month for my Ramnode VPS (with coupon applied)
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astr0man posted:You should probably just use linode. For someone who's only used DO, can you explain the advantages/features of Linode?
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Linode has more datacenter options, and in my experience better support and network infrastructure than DO. Like I said before, I use DO now for small personal stuff and I've been completely happy with it, but if I needed to run an actual production server for something on a VPS I would still use linode.
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I run all my backup stuff (backup DNS, etc) at DO because it's cheap. Everything production, I run at Linode. I had an Ubuntu update (simple do-release-upgrade) make my DO box unbootable and they didn't have the CLI/boot CD support to be able to recover it. I had to rollback 24 hours to an old snapshot. Linode gives you the choice of kernel and full control over your box remotely.
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feld posted:dns.he.net did not work for me as a slave with DNSSEC. My domain never validated. Instead I setup Gandi as my secondary and it worked fine. interesting - perhaps there are still some dnssec-related RRs they don't support
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Cowabanga posted:Anyone got good experience with Digitalocean? Recently my RamNode VPS got suspended for "CPU abuse" even though I haven't touched it in forever, and I heard digitalocean is pretty good. You should check out your VPS to make sure you weren't hit by a spambot/malware. If you weren't really using it and suddenly you were triggering their monitoring services then something is probably up.
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Cowabanga posted:Anyone got good experience with Digitalocean? Recently my RamNode VPS got suspended for "CPU abuse" even though I haven't touched it in forever, and I heard digitalocean is pretty good. You didn't happen to be running Kloxo, did you
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text editor posted:You didn't happen to be running Kloxo, did you In case anyone is wondering about this, here's an email I got from BuyVM earlier today. BuyVM Staff posted:Earlier today, we experienced a large number of nodes in Las Vegas They sent a followup. If you've got a file named "default.php" with md5: b6ff2c0806efd543d1e18e694e70ee34, you got hit.
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Cowabanga posted:Well I host a private VPN, a shitton of vhosts, a mailserver, an rear end in a top hat PHP script that hogs at least 200mb of RAM (vbulltein) and that's pretty much the most noticable things. Am I better off with something better than DO? You might find something catches your eye at http://lowendbox.com/ I'm on chicago VPS for $7/mo, 2GB mem/50GB disk/2TB traffic openvz vps
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Salt Fish posted:You should check out your VPS to make sure you weren't hit by a spambot/malware. If you weren't really using it and suddenly you were triggering their monitoring services then something is probably up. Fairly sure it's not infected. Apparently I'm not allowed to use more than 0.9% of the CPU for extended periods of times (not sure how bad that is when it comes to VPS's... are they overselling?). I'll wipe the server clean and reinstall everything just to be safe. text editor posted:You didn't happen to be running Kloxo, did you No. ass fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Jan 29, 2014 |
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I have a  question.I need to do some external speed testing, and so I'm looking to set up an AWS instance or a by-the-hour VPS that has 10 Gbps internet speed. We have a 10 Gbps circuit at the datacenter, so I need 10 Gbps from the instance/VPS to test with. We've already gone the distributed route (aggregating Azure instances) but I'd like to test with one big box + iperf. Anyone have any recommendations on a good host with 10 Gbps speeds?
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