On Oct 27, 2005, at 12:01 am, Elliott Clark wrote:
I too have a local mail server and I came to the conclusion that I
would really like a mx backup server. However I already spend too
much on internet services. So what I would love to do is set up some
kind of gentoo community run mx backup web. Something were users get
2 backup servers and they are a backup server for two others. However
this would require some trust and a lot of programing to get a utility
to create configs for all of the different mail servers out there.
I posted on the forums but didn't get any real response so looks like
the flaws are too great. But the idea still kinda stands find someone
else who needs a mx server and exchange. You be their backup and they
be yours.
I posted here for DNS secondary volunteers a year or two back, and
found a guy to host my secondary DNS for me. He seemed very reputable,
having written computing books & being referenced in Unix mailing lists
10 years old but he fell off the internet without telling me. According
to a friend of his he's not dead, just quit all internet use
completely.
From this experience I'd advise you not to trust anyone with your
secondary unless you're paying them to maintain it. I have friends
locally who run their own servers and although I trust them to get me
home when I'm drunk, on reflection I wouldn't trust them with a favour
like this. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they were just to forget
they were hosting my records when they reinstalled their server, and in
things like this you only find out about it when you actually NEED the
backup. $10 a year seems very cheap for such a service, IMHO - you'd
spend more than that thanking your friends with beer.
Stroller.
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