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

[Nat Taylor]

"Amazon ec2 Mail issues

Having mail servers in the cloud of Amazon ec2 does have a couple of issues.

   - Spammers set up mail spamming instances in the ec2 cloud. Thus the ec2
   ips are blocked by some spam checking tools. In the postfix howto document
   I tell you how to unlist your public ip. Basically go to spamhaus.org and
   fill their unlisting forms.
   - Amazon have themselves set up restrictions for this. Thus port 25
   traffic of new AWS accounts are restricted. Follow the advice in their
   article
   <http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#Are_there_any_limitations_in_sending_email_from_EC2_instances>
on
   how to be approved
   <http://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ec2-email-limit-request/>.
   - Thirdly, if you are in the cloud, your mail server is not local. So if
   you sent 50MB files as attachment to someone else, the transfer will take
   awhile compared to a local mail server.

"

- http://flurdy.com/docs/ec2/mail/#mailserver

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Nat Taylor <bioborg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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