[PLUG] Local Domain Hosting ? A semi-newbie question

[Nat Taylor]

I'd suggest nearlyfreespeech.net for a registrar.  I've never used their
on-demand hosting though.

Hosting?  I'll do you for $1/mo on my jaguarpc reseller account.  We'll
have to renegotiate if you turn out to be a resource hog, which I doubt you
will.  Recurring paypal billing.  You could get your own managed hosting
there for $4/mo (use my email address as a referrer) or get a siteground
for $3/month (I have no account there, just providing it as a counterpoint.)
cPanel provides RoundCube or Squirrelmail webmail with pop3/imap for your
email client

There is AWS free tier if you feel like setting up your own server...
It's $0.0065
per Hour after the first year.
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
You might be able to find an owncloud appliance for ec2
Although you might want to go with nextcloud.
not sure how those would work on the nano instance.  Linode might be easier
if you're not going to be taking advantage of free tier.




On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:26 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, July 1, 2016, Vedanta Teacher <orevedantateacher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Everyone,
> >
> >   I was thinking of setting up a local Domain and/or website so
> > that I can have my own email and DROP gmail, hotmail, etc.
> > so that the email would be something like:
> >
> >   bla at blabla.com <javascript:;>
> >      or
> >    bad at wolfie.org <javascript:;>
> >     or
> >    raving at idiot.com <javascript:;>
> >
> >
>  there are a number of choices depending on pro to pro-am, high to low
> usage, hosting/cloud based etc. lots of online tutorials:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own-e-mail-server-with-your-own-domain-part-1/
> (for example).
>
> I have on old P4 linux server, using iptables/netfilter and
> https://freedns.afraid.org/ for dynamic DNS (openwrt router firewall &
> port
> forwarding), domains and another  www site registered via
> http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
>
> I'm still trying to find time for email (lots of choices, have sendmail
> running internally, just lazy...) but mumble and apache running.
>
> Its a good learning experience to set it up at home - nice to have physical
> access to the server and your own linux distro (Slackware FTW!). Its also
> good not to depend on the vagaries of corporate entities.
>
> you'll have research which email server (sendmail, postfix. etc, I don't
> have a particilar favorite) fits your need as well as keep up with security
> so that you domain doesn't end up on a spam blacklist.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
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