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Looking for VPS for mail server

puffypinguinpuffypinguin Member
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So I am looking for a VPS server where I will be hosting mailcow

Requirements

2-4 vCPU
8GB+ RAM
100GB Disk

Location preferably EU, but it shouldn't matter since it will be just emails for my own sites and client websites. No kind of spamming. Its just official emails for sites like [email protected].

Budget around ~30-40 USD/year

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  • yasciyasci Member

    racknerd

  • puffypinguinpuffypinguin Member

    @yasci said:
    racknerd

    I checked their website and there is nothing in that kind of specs and budget, am I missing something?

  • davidedavide Member

    @puffypinguin it would be this:

    RackNerd — $46.39 / year
    3 Intel Cores (shared)
    5120 MB RAM
    60 GB SSD
    5000 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4
    Hosted in U.S.A. 🇺🇸

    But it is both under specification and over budget. Your specification starts at 50€ / year.

  • sh97sh97 Member, Host Rep

    Maybe wait for GreenCloud's sale in a couple of weeks, you should be able to get something in your budget

  • puffypinguinpuffypinguin Member

    @davide said:
    @puffypinguin it would be this:

    RackNerd — $46.39 / year
    3 Intel Cores (shared)
    5120 MB RAM
    60 GB SSD
    5000 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4
    Hosted in U.S.A. 🇺🇸

    But it is both under specification and over budget. Your specification starts at 50€ / year.

    8GB is almost a must for mailcow as its very memory hungry, I deployed it on my own server but it has only 16GB and together with the sites it would run into memory issues.

  • davidedavide Member
    edited October 2025

    @puffypinguin said:

    @davide said:
    @puffypinguin it would be this:

    RackNerd — $46.39 / year
    3 Intel Cores (shared)
    5120 MB RAM
    60 GB SSD
    5000 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4
    Hosted in U.S.A. 🇺🇸

    But it is both under specification and over budget. Your specification starts at 50€ / year.

    8GB is almost a must for mailcow as its very memory hungry, I deployed it on my own server but it has only 16GB and together with the sites it would run into memory issues.

    If you prefer to not wait until the birthday sale as @sh97 suggests, the cheapest option I see in the database would be:

    Layer7 — €47.88 / year
    4 Intel Cores (shared)
    8192 MB RAM
    120 GB NVMe
    51200 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4 + IPv6
    Hosted in Germany 🇩🇪

    This is in Germany with IPv4 and email ports open, but charges VAT / GST if applicable to you. If for this reason you prefer a non European provider, the cheapest option becomes:

    ColoCrossing — $54.99 / year
    4 Intel Cores (shared)
    8192 MB RAM
    165 GB SSD
    20480 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4
    Hosted in U.S.A. 🇺🇸

    which also has email ports open by default and is tax free. If the 8 GB RAM are barely sufficient you may apt-get install zram-tools, which on my VPSs gives ~4x memory compression for 2% average CPU usage:

    # zramctl
NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE   DATA  COMPR  TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram1 deflate       1.9G 635.3M 146.3M 153.6M       2 [SWAP]
/dev/zram0 deflate       1.9G 642.3M 146.8M 154.1M       2 [SWAP]
  • cmeerwcmeerw Member

    @davide said: ColoCrossing
    @davide said: which also has email ports open by default

    ColoCrossing might have email ports open, but pretty much everyone else will block emails from ColoCrossing IPs

    Thanked by 3tentor sh97 stable_genius
  • puffypinguinpuffypinguin Member

    @davide said:

    @puffypinguin said:

    @davide said:
    @puffypinguin it would be this:

    RackNerd — $46.39 / year
    3 Intel Cores (shared)
    5120 MB RAM
    60 GB SSD
    5000 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4
    Hosted in U.S.A. 🇺🇸

    But it is both under specification and over budget. Your specification starts at 50€ / year.

    8GB is almost a must for mailcow as its very memory hungry, I deployed it on my own server but it has only 16GB and together with the sites it would run into memory issues.

    If you prefer to not wait until the birthday sale as @sh97 suggests, the cheapest option I see in the database would be:

    Layer7 — €47.88 / year
    4 Intel Cores (shared)
    8192 MB RAM
    120 GB NVMe
    51200 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4 + IPv6
    Hosted in Germany 🇩🇪

    This is in Germany with IPv4 and email ports open, but charges VAT / GST if applicable to you. If for this reason you prefer a non European provider, the cheapest option becomes:

    ColoCrossing — $54.99 / year
    4 Intel Cores (shared)
    8192 MB RAM
    165 GB SSD
    20480 GB/month bandwidth
    1.0 Gbps port speed
    IPv4
    Hosted in U.S.A. 🇺🇸

    which also has email ports open by default and is tax free. If the 8 GB RAM are barely sufficient you may apt-get install zram-tools, which on my VPSs gives ~4x memory compression for 2% average CPU usage:

    # zramctl
NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE   DATA  COMPR  TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram1 deflate       1.9G 635.3M 146.3M 153.6M       2 [SWAP]
/dev/zram0 deflate       1.9G 642.3M 146.8M 154.1M       2 [SWAP]

    Thanks a lot for your info. Currently I am looking also at OVH VPS small plans which is around 45 EUR/year. I will wait for the offers I guess.

  • clay_pclay_p Member, Host Rep

    Hello @puffypinguin

    We can offer you a VPS for a mail server at your desired location, with the following specs. While we provide Unlimited email space/ Account with any plan you choose.

    VPS Supreme

    32 GB RAM
    4 vCPU
    100 GB Storage
    1000 GB Bandwidth
    1 IP Address

    View Full Plans and Specs

  • DrNutellaDrNutella Member

    It’s unlikely you’ll land anywhere but spam. Just a friendly tip.

  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    @cmeerw said:

    @davide said: ColoCrossing
    @davide said: which also has email ports open by default

    ColoCrossing might have email ports open, but pretty much everyone else will block emails from ColoCrossing IPs

    In my experience, CC don't have email ports open by default -- at least not anymore

    But, yes, in general, CC IPs aren't the cleanest

    Thanked by 1yasci
  • edrebeedrebe Member 
    LittleCreekHosting -> North Carolina - USA
4 GB RAM (x2 If you post your invoice number in the original post)
4 vCPU Cores AMD EPYC
120 GB NVMe
10 TB Bandwidth (x2 If you post your invoice number in the original post)
Email ports open by default
$35.70/y

    🤝 See product details (aff)

    🔗 See product details (no aff)

  • puffypinguinpuffypinguin Member

    @DrNutella said:
    It’s unlikely you’ll land anywhere but spam. Just a friendly tip.

    There are providers with clean IPs and you can actually remove the IP for the major spam trackers, but thanks for the heads up. I actually registered the client with Zoho for the moment but I dont know if they keep the free plan still after the trial

  • puffypinguinpuffypinguin Member

    @edrebe said:

    LittleCreekHosting -> North Carolina - USA
4 GB RAM (x2 If you post your invoice number in the original post)
4 vCPU Cores AMD EPYC
120 GB NVMe
10 TB Bandwidth (x2 If you post your invoice number in the original post)
Email ports open by default
$35.70/y

    🤝 See product details (aff)

    🔗 See product details (no aff)

    Noting this, thanks for posting

  • MikeAMikeA Member, Patron Provider

    Make sure the IPs on your same subnet are clean. If not hosting mail will be useless on it.

  • tentortentor Member, Host Rep

    @MikeA said:
    Make sure the IPs on your same subnet are clean. If not hosting mail will be useless on it.

    Hosting mail is OK, delivering isn't :)

  • MikeAMikeA Member, Patron Provider
    edited October 2025

    @tentor said:

    @MikeA said:
    Make sure the IPs on your same subnet are clean. If not hosting mail will be useless on it.

    Hosting mail is OK, delivering isn't :)

    yes, I assumed hosting mail meant using it to email too. :smiley: :smiley:

  • tentortentor Member, Host Rep
    edited October 2025

    @MikeA said:

    @tentor said:

    @MikeA said:
    Make sure the IPs on your same subnet are clean. If not hosting mail will be useless on it.

    Hosting mail is OK, delivering isn't :)

    yes, I assumed hosting mail meant using it to email too. :smiley: :smiley:

    I start to see smarthost usage more than previously and more hosters advising doing so, hence my clarification. Could be a dealbreaker given very tight budget.

  • darkknightdarkknight Member

    @puffypinguin said:

    @davide said:
    @puffypinguin it would be this:

    8GB is almost a must for mailcow as its very memory hungry, I deployed it on my own server but it has only 16GB and together with the sites it would run into memory issues.

    I'm running it on 5GB for 1 user.

  • shallownorthdakotashallownorthdakota Member

    Why would you even run your own SMTPD?

    Are you some kind of sadistic weirdo?

    Thanked by 1mike1s
  • mike1smike1s Member

    Just use CraneMail by NameCrane instead of dealing with your own mail server. https://namecrane.com/cranemail-email-hosting

  • puffypinguinpuffypinguin Member

    @darkknight said:

    @puffypinguin said:

    @davide said:
    @puffypinguin it would be this:

    8GB is almost a must for mailcow as its very memory hungry, I deployed it on my own server but it has only 16GB and together with the sites it would run into memory issues.

    I'm running it on 5GB for 1 user.

    I have a few clients so it will be more than one user. But Ill give also a look at CraneMail which @mike1s. Does anyone have experience with it?

  • the_doctorthe_doctor Member

    @puffypinguin said:

    @darkknight said:

    @puffypinguin said:

    @davide said:
    @puffypinguin it would be this:

    8GB is almost a must for mailcow as its very memory hungry, I deployed it on my own server but it has only 16GB and together with the sites it would run into memory issues.

    I'm running it on 5GB for 1 user.

    I have a few clients so it will be more than one user. But Ill give also a look at CraneMail which @mike1s. Does anyone have experience with it?

    Cranemail handles multiple domains fine. Price can't be beat, been very happy with them. Also host my own server which I will continue to do until Cranemail supports pgp.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @the_doctor said: Cranemail handles multiple domains fine. Price can't be beat, been very happy with them. Also host my own server which I will continue to do until Cranemail supports pgp.

    Its there in roundcube.

    Francisco

  • GulfGulf Member

    If you do not send spam or unsolicited, better offload mail to 3rd party.

    Many providers like ColoCro have shadow ban in Gmail. Mails may silently go to spam if you have had no communications with the recipient before.

  • the_doctorthe_doctor Member
    edited October 2025

    @Francisco said:

    @the_doctor said: Cranemail handles multiple domains fine. Price can't be beat, been very happy with them. Also host my own server which I will continue to do until Cranemail supports pgp.

    Its there in roundcube.

    Francisco

    Looks like I missed a feature release, I'm still using the SmarterMail. :)

    Edit: just checked and seems to be a US-only feature for now... any plans to add it to EU?

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @the_doctor said:

    @Francisco said:

    @the_doctor said: Cranemail handles multiple domains fine. Price can't be beat, been very happy with them. Also host my own server which I will continue to do until Cranemail supports pgp.

    Its there in roundcube.

    Francisco

    Looks like I missed a feature release, I'm still using the SmarterMail. :)

    Edit: just checked and seems to be a US-only feature for now... any plans to add it to EU?

    Roundcube is there for eu too? You have to login to it via workspace.org.

    Francisco

  • philipjensenphilipjensen Member, Patron Provider

    Xeon - 8GB
    2 vCores (Xeon Gold 6150)
    8 GB DDR4
    75 GB NVMe Raid 1
    10 TB Traffic

    €3.99 / month (€47.88 / year, but we can negotiate a discount for yearly)

  • the_doctorthe_doctor Member

    @Francisco said:

    @the_doctor said:

    @Francisco said:

    @the_doctor said: Cranemail handles multiple domains fine. Price can't be beat, been very happy with them. Also host my own server which I will continue to do until Cranemail supports pgp.

    Its there in roundcube.

    Francisco

    Looks like I missed a feature release, I'm still using the SmarterMail. :)

    Edit: just checked and seems to be a US-only feature for now... any plans to add it to EU?

    Roundcube is there for eu too? You have to login to it via workspace.org.

    Francisco

    Are you sure that's possible? When I try to login with my email from eu1 it says:

    Domain not found. Please try again.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @the_doctor said: Domain not found. Please try again.

    Open a ticket, sounds like an SSO bug I need to fix :)

    Francisco

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