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I was running an smtp server through Comcast when I installed fedora 13 because I had something misconfigured in my ssh tunnel. Currently, like JABR I have a passwordless login on the BLU server and I do port forwarding. On 09/26/2010 06:12 PM, Rich Braun wrote: >> I tunnel my mail through a co-located mail server ... >> =20 > That's one way to get an external routable IP address, but I don't have= that > right now. > > Acquaintances have told me that Amazon EC2's pricing has dropped consid= erably, > and a quick check of their site shows that for $54/year one can get a "= micro > reserved instance" which is 613MB of RAM plus ten cents/month/GB for st= orage, > so a 10GB partition (more than needed for a mail relay) would be $12/ye= ar.=20 > That's a price I could live with though the price list is daunting and = I > suspect those would not be the only line items on the bill. > > So, if I follow John's suggestion and actually purchase a colo mail ser= ver, > how do I keep the cost down under, say, $100/year? (The obvious altern= ative > is to buy commercial-grade home ISP service, which is unnecessary and f= rankly > the home email server is a luxury that I don't really need but prefer t= o keep > for the sake of principle--it's something I've had since the "old days"= of the > Internet when all these restrictions and costs didn't exist.) > =20 --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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