Tony, BGP is helpful for email servers if you own your own clean IP space, because much cloud IP space is black listed.
-mel via cell > On Sep 26, 2023, at 11:41 AM, Tony Wicks <t...@wicks.co.nz> wrote: > > I can't speak to the bgp feed as this seems like unnecessary complication to > me, but I use https://www.racknerd.com/ for personal email/web hosting KVM > VM's and have found them to be excellent. They have yearly black Friday > specials (last years - https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/ ) that are very > attractive. They don't block any ports on their US/Europe VM's. I use a > primary pair in one city and rsync everything to a backup pair in another > city (as well as home just to make sure). Not all cities can get V6 but most > do. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tony=wicks.co...@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Daniel > Corbe > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 11:09 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: SMTP-friendly VPS provider where I can also get a BGP feed > > Hey all, > > I apologize if this isn't the right place to post this; however, I thought > maybe the NANOG community would be able to point me in the right direction. > > I'm looking for a place that I can host a mailer. My primary use case is a > Mailman-style technical discussion list; much like NANOG but software related > instead of network related: READ: non-commercial in nature. > > I'm currently a vultr customer, but they're refusing to unblock port 25 on my > account. I've tried explaining my use case but no matter who I talk to over > there they just keep pointing me to their spam policy. > > Thanks! > -Daniel >
