Dear all,
I currently run e-mail and web services for my little domain from my home
box, connected to the net with DSL. The other day, the network burped and
I was offline for several hours...
Basically, I've grown frustrated with trying to host important services
off a consumer-grade network link. A little googling and Wikipedia-ing
reveals that what I probably want is a "virtual private server". Then I
can still have the control and tinkering power I have now but without the
worries of consumer DSL and electricity nor the expense of a dedicated
co-located server.
Hence my request for advice. I am looking for suggestions on finding a
good VPS hosting company, or suggestions on Google-fu for effective
research on my own (so far I have managed to find only masses of adverts),
or pointers on trying something else.
Some thoughts on what I think I need (please advise if I'm making
mistakes, I'm new at this VPS thing):
1. One IP address that is not on any spam blacklists.
2. Enough horsepower to run:
a. an Apache instance serving ~10,000 static hits on a busy day,
usually much less
b. an Exim instance accepting ~1,000 incoming e-mails daily,
including spam, with rare floods of 20,000k+ backscatter spams
c. enough SpamAssassin to scan the e-mail
d. enough IMAP server to let me read the e-mail
3. ~10G of disk space.
4. Debian, preferably Lenny.
5. Cheap, ideally in the $10-15/mo range.
6. Reliable.
Any and all advice cheerfully accepted and much appreciated, and follow-up
questions happily answered.
Reid
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