Hey All,
I am a MSP operating out of Northern Canada and have been hosting our
own email servers(builing mailservers ground up using qmail and dovecot
on debian).
on an average, moving about 5-7K emails a day on average between 100+
domains and 1200+ email addresses.
Here to share my experience and not advocate for their services.
I have used serverpronto at my current company and previous company with
a shared history of about 20+ years.
Recently started moving to a cpanel system due to the company's growing
hosting customer base.
My experience with them is 100% positive and very quick turn around
time.
I have about 5 servers with them, some mail servers, custom hosted
applications and all of them have ipv4 and ipv6.
I also took a stab at vultr with the same setup where I build the
servers ground up. Not something I would use for production
- anti spam policy MIGHT block traffic to and from your instance
- privacy concerns: I read from sources that they data mine(do your
research, dont take my word for it)
- their maintenance did affect my services, so not an option
Another player I am exploring is CPanel on godaddy. (purely from a
economical POV, because I am moving away form building servers from
scratch)
I would use Godaddy despite their strict anti-spam policy. i.e., if one
of the emails on your system gets hacked (due to phishing or weak
password) GD will block your server till you contact them and get them
to clear your block.
Sorry if this was not the info you were looking for, but sharing my
years of experience in hosting space(emails and custom applications).
Hope that helps!
On 2024-07-08 17:49, Tony G via mailop wrote:
Friends - Apparently I wasn't clear. Sorry about that.
This isn't a new venture. Long ago, I considered and decided to move
forward against the sage advice "if you're thinking about DIY SMTP,
don't". I've been running our Postfix/Dovecot servers for years now. I
have no problem with that, and I've dealt with the RBLs and other
issues mentioned. It's the additional burden imposed by others that
has raised the priority on this:
- Too many receiving servers using bad RBLs and for the wrong
reasons.
- Too many bad actors allowed to commission services.
- Global IP address pools that are easily compromised.
- Hosts that can't keep up with the damage from the above bad
decisions.
- IPv6 not globally implemented yet.
Use existing services? A typical cheap service costs
$5/user/domain/month. (Free? Not when you use your own domains.) For
just 1 user and 10 domains, that $50 is already more than what I pay
for two cloud servers. Multiply that by more users and domains. I'm
also running DNS, websites, and other services on these systems
(arguable practice, but remember, low volume), and I'm already paying
for these servers, so new services only start at doubling my costs.
And because services don't guarantee anything better, we'll still be
subject to the same issues. Been there, done that, not interested.
So for this inquiry I really am asking about reliable hosts - anywhere
in the world. That may or may not include names like Hetzner, Vultr,
or AWS - I'm looking for confirmations. I mean, most people here are
running in a data center - I'd really like to know who is providing
the stable resources.
Or is this a unicorn that doesn't exist?
Thanks again.
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