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?)
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 think there are better hosts if you have the resources, but in the $5/mo market they're both pretty strong). Hertzner also came up recently as a European-based alternative.
- You might like to have a look at Shorewall...
One weakness of DO is that you're pretty limited to the distros they support. It's never really been an issue but it does limit me here whilst I am sticking with them.
I might have to think about spinning up a VM at Vultr for testing. Google suggests they give a flat 2TB bandwidth regardless of how much stuff I have with them? Seems an odd approach so maybe I misread it. But that would be enough for my purposes I am sure.