On 12Sep22 21:07+0200, Mihai Lazarescu wrote: > Given the cheap VPS, I can mirror the setup on a second VPS from a different > provider with quick DNS switch in case of issues.
I just did that approx half a year ago. Before, everything was rolling just fine (for more than 10 yrs). No dead ends of my outgoing mails. After transferring the domain over to the new hoster, some destinations did not receive my mails. Either filtered into spam, some got denied (where I got a nice SMTP error reply) and some just got silently dropped. This took me some time to figure out with each destination, why is that happening. And sometimes also just guessing. At least the mail-tester.com rate is 10/10, so it is not about my setup per se. The IP and/or subnet my VPS was in had a bad reputation at some denylist services. Question was then, how to get removed from them. Sometimes via automated forms and sometimes through personal mail-conversation with other mail operators (t-online.de was very nice and responsive to my surprise). For now, it seems fine again. And I would regret it to 'throw in the towel' because of that; but to be honest, I thought about that. After this experience there need to be very strong reasons to change my hoster again, meaning to change my IP/subnet again. Cheers, -- Bastian
