[TriLUG] recommendations for on-line Linux VM

[Lance A. Brown via TriLUG]

I've had one or more VPS servers at linode for seemingly forever now.  I run or have run a variety 
of services there:

- master DNS zone via bind9 for my zones, connected to he.net, and afraid.org secondary servers.
- Mail secondary MX receiver
- Virtual mailboxes for organizations
- Emergency mail destination for when my personal email server isn't available due to reasons.
- Apache-based websites
- Mailman mailing list server
- docker based services running FoundryVTT, hugo-based static website,

Yeah, the prices have gone up over the years and Akamai owns Linode now, but I still like them.

--[Lance]

John Vaughters via TriLUG wrote on 2/14/2025 11:48 AM:
> I run two servers on linode for $10/month. I ran one VM for close to 4 years as an web and app server and in the last year I added a mail server using Mail-in-a-box. Look it up, they make it super simple and secure. But my mail does not have cred yet and get's sent to spam by alot of receivers. It's kind of a test to see if I can do it with any reasonable success. I have no idea how feasible that is yet.
> 
> I highly recommend linode, it is super simple. I don't think it can get any more simple. Maybe because I opened the account before they got crazy? not sure.