On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:34:05PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > 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.
"virtual" is a bad keyword. Try focusing on the technology. e.g. linux xen hosting debian xen hosting > 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 $10-15/mo range. When I did the survey a year ago, there wasn't much to choose from at that range. At around 20$ there were more options. > 6. Reliable. An interesting utility I found over time is an OpenVPN server to provide me simple linking between my various computers. This can easily be done with a Xen guest. Not possible, from what I can tell, with a OpenVZ host. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
