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AMD EPYC1 7443P MILAN
1vCPU Core Processor
1024 MB DDR4
20GB NvMe
(Premium Hardware)
1TB Bandwidth Port 10Gigabit (Shared port)
$17.50 /Year | https://www.georgedatacenter.com/vps-ryzen.php
Double resources in Disk and RAM
RackNerd has (no aff)
For $0.96 / month (yearly). See product specs (aff)
This is the cheapest I know of at $11.49/y.
The Mailcow suite requires like 6GB RAM. You're not going to get anything that will reliably run Mailcow at $1/m~.
I remember the days when Mailcow would run on 1GB of RAM. They made it such a resource hog over the years. Developers lost their way on this project.
EDIT: I also remember the days when there was no stupid Docker, just a good script to install and configure everything.
In this thread from last year they claim it can work with 1GB for a small installation.
It really does everything though, great open source software. Best one I've used and Docker makes it easy for anyone to deploy, even without much general linux (or email) knowledge.
Great project.
How much something like this really is a good thing(tm) is kind of debatable though.
Having people using easy accessible open source software is good for Linux and the communities.
Is it? Having people run stuff they don't understand on systems they don't understand either usually isn't that great of an idea in my opinion. It might be somewhat good for Linux as in market share (if this is actually important in relation to open source?) but community-wise i don't think most of those people are really going to contribute much of anything beyond likely needing support sooner or later. Is this worth the overhead/downsides of docker?
Have you tried mailu.io, its way more lightweight and equally good for personal use tbh
docker-mailserver is very good too
Working on a Raspberry
You know it amazes me how the Debian developers managed to fit an entire operating system to run on 150 MB of RAM (even DE/GUI Linux is < 2 GB of RAM), yet almost every modern application needs far more resources than the OS does.
It may not necessarily be a good thing from a Linux/open-source community perspective, but it at least gives lesser-well-off people a free alternative to paying a business to host a mailbox for them (for which they may not trust their privacy policies, etc). In the long run, you could argue it even gives competition to paid services to significantly boost their offerings compared to free alternatives.
called it quits, ended up continuing my subscription with mxroute
Depending on the amount of users, etc. I've gotten away with 4GB and 2GB for swap.
The 6GB memory requirement is for the full bells-and-whistles install, if you disable ClamAV and Solr (Obviously each one comes with associated downsides, not a silver bullet) then you can run it on 2GB and I have done so for years, but I would suggest adding swap just so that it doesn't run into difficulty if load spikes for a bit.
Why were you considering switching to Mailcow, in the first place?
friends have used it with much success, but $15 dollars was the limit and you cannot beat mx route deal to LET
Same.
https://docker-mailserver.github.io/docker-mailserver/latest/
Runs fine on 1GB.