On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 07:25:42AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On 7/31/20 3:29 AM, Didar Hossain wrote: > > I read around a little and it seems that most cloud providers block SMTP > > ports > > (25,587,465) from/t the internet as well sometimes from within their > > network. > > This poses a real problem for my deployment plans. Also, note that my > > design has > > separate MSA (submission), Mailstore (IMAP) and MTA (MX) nodes. > > I have never heard that. Many home ISPs block those ports, but VPS > providers generally are serving a business market. My own VPS is > with RimuHosting (https://rimuhosting.com) and they block no ports. > The most economical one I have heard of > (https://nosupportlinuxhosting.com/) certainly does not, and you will > find it hard to beat the price.
Ahh, RimuHosting is indeed on my option list. The other guys are providing CPanel/WHM preconfigured instances; I want to fully customize my minimal Buster instance. > You mentioned wanting your host to be physically based in India, > but I'm not sure that's important unless you expect very heavy > traffic and need very short response times. My Rimuhosting VPS > has moved from New Zealand to Long Island, New York (east cost > of the USA) to Dallas, Texas (southwestern USA, about 2400 km > away) and for what I do (web hosting and mail, mostly) it has > made no detectable difference. Hosting in India is a preference, not a hard requirement. I am happy to know that Rimu are not blocking ports. Kind regards, Didar -- <knghtbrd> *snipsnip* <rcw> oh dear, is that the sound of fortune-database editing? <Joy> uh oh <knghtbrd> Yes =>
