Re: SMTP-friendly VPS provider where I can also get a BGP feed

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

Tony,

BGP is helpful for email servers if you own your own clean IP space, because much cloud IP space is black listed. 

-mel via cell

> On Sep 26, 2023, at 11:41 AM, Tony Wicks <tony () wicks co nz> wrote:
>
> I can't speak to the bgp feed as this seems like unnecessary complication to me, but I use https://www.racknerd.com/ 
> for personal email/web hosting KVM VM's and have found them to be excellent. They have yearly black Friday specials 
> (last years - https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/ ) that are very attractive. They don't block any ports on their 
> US/Europe VM's. I use a primary pair in one city and rsync everything to a backup pair in another city (as well as 
> home just to make sure). Not all cities can get V6 but most do.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tony=wicks.co.nz () nanog org> On Behalf Of Daniel Corbe
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 11:09 PM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: SMTP-friendly VPS provider where I can also get a BGP feed
>
> Hey all,
>
> I apologize if this isn't the right place to post this; however, I thought maybe the NANOG community would be able to 
> point me in the right direction.
>
> I'm looking for a place that I can host a mailer.  My primary use case is a Mailman-style technical discussion list; 
> much like NANOG but software related instead of network related: READ: non-commercial in nature.
>
> I'm currently a vultr customer, but they're refusing to unblock port 25 on my account.  I've tried explaining my use 
> case but no matter who I talk to over there they just keep pointing me to their spam policy.
>
> Thanks!
> -Daniel