Re: virtual private server? advice requested

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:34:05PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:

Basically, I've grown frustrated with trying to host important services
off a consumer-grade network link. A little googling and Wikipedia-ing
reveals that what I probably want is a "virtual private server". Then I
can still have the control and tinkering power I have now but without the
worries of consumer DSL and electricity nor the expense of a dedicated
co-located server.

"virtual" is a bad keyword. Try focusing on the technology. e.g.

linux xen hosting
debian xen hosting

1. One IP address that is not on any spam blacklists.
2. Enough horsepower to run:
a. an Apache instance serving ~10,000 static hits on a busy day,
usually much less
b. an Exim instance accepting ~1,000 incoming e-mails daily,
including spam, with rare floods of 20,000k+ backscatter spams
c. enough SpamAssassin to scan the e-mail
d. enough IMAP server to let me read the e-mail
3. ~10G of disk space.
4. Debian, preferably Lenny.
5. Cheap, ideally in the $10-15/mo range.

When I did the survey a year ago, there wasn't much to choose from at
that range. At around 20$ there were more options.

6. Reliable.

An interesting utility I found over time is an OpenVPN server to provide
me simple linking between my various computers.

This can easily be done with a Xen guest. Not possible, from what I can
tell, with a OpenVZ host.

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