On 29/06/2024 12:53, Mark Rogers wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 at 11:55, Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
- I've dumped Digital Ocean as all their IP addresses have been blocked
by those crooks at UCEProtect. And I mean ALL of them, so it's occasionally impossible to send out email from their servers.
Does anyone actually use uceprotect? (Well, anyone who matters?)
Yes. I was blocked by both MS (hotmail/outlook) and Google. It was a nightmare to get exemptions from them, and DO couldn't give a flying one.
UCEProtect block an entire Class C if the decide any spam has been sent, and they want payment, monthly, to unblock each single IP. IMO it's a criminal scam, but they don't give one either. That's why I dumped DO for Vultr, who are better anyway, IMO.
Apple was a different story, but another marathon.
I don't send emails directly from my servers anyway so this isn't an issue (we use mailgun or aws SMTP servers).
I have migrated most of my kit to Vultr, and they are much better, as cheap, and their network lines and VMs seem faster.
I looked at Vultr around the same time we moved to DO (almost a decade ago it turns out). We've never had any issues with DO but I have often thought about using a mixture of the two.
I was happy with DO until UCE came along and DO didn't care.
Cheers, Laurie.