dammit

[den]

I am annoyed with the company's web host. Email dropped out yesterday, a trouble ticket was sent, and no word. In the past the problem was fixed with no notification of what they did or what was wrong. I can see in the site cpanel that no one has exceeded the email allowance but I can't do anything about it. I wish the host was here in Aus, so I could call them.

Looks like it's time for DIY company web hosting. james_bmakovette any ideas that would help?

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[makovette.livejournal.com]

A few ideas yes....

Cheap in house: Spin up a linux box on CentOS with a pair of mirrored hard drives. Run Postfix as your mail software and use IMAP (keeps a copy of all the mail on the server) or POP (client sucks the mail off the server).

Use Thunderbird or any flavor of Outlook you like.

Requirements:
Generic P4 box with 512MB of ram and a pair of reasonably fat hard drives, and a reliable broadband connection to the server with a static IP. A firewall appliance or run iptables on the server.

Some DNS wizardry is required. between James and I, that's covered though.

Upside:
It's all yours. You have total control, and responsibility for the server. You can also run apache to serve the company's web page.

Downside:
No web based interface to the mail server w/o another package. If it breaks, you fix it.

If this sounds like the HRF server, well, you'd be right :)

Outsourced: Ping tegeren, he's worked with two hosting providers and is mach more savvy on who in the States is better.

CYa!
Mako

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

ta. Looking at all this inc. costs own server vs paying for hosting. I'll ping tegeren for a reliable host.