Right, I've been running my own postfix server for years. No problem for incoming, that I can see. I'm just wondering if I've been missing something.

2. full control over own data

I've self-hosted my email server for many years, but recently had to switch to a different SMTP service since port 25 is blocked on my new server. So I'm thinking about this again.

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Is this VPS based where you install your own storage backend or more like Hetzner storage box or S3?

I have ways of mitigating that. But everything still has a cost, mitigation for the worst case scenarios aren't without their own costs. But that's enough with trying to figure out how to break it. I

Are you looking to purchase hardware or rent dedicated servers from a provider?

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In regard to synlinq? Or bero-host?

Ekire is a new hosting provider in the field, brought to you buy a group of amazing cloud lovers and skilled developers. Now, we offer completely free servers for new users to give them all a chance t

Renting dedicated servers is usually much cheaper than colo.

Oh the thing I was referring to was previous unprofessional behaviour I can't get into right now. But they are fine, just not on a ethical/princile level (for me at least).

Synlinq is one of the big colocation providers in Maincubes (and the only one I know), so don't worry. There's no big company behind all these hosts, except they mostly provide their own hardware and

No location preference at this time. Im looking to purchase equipment outright now lease or rent.

You don't need to.

Can't really compare US to Europe, Hetzner US is not very good last I checked.

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How does Hetzner and Netcup compare to OVH?

I guess you can't really compare it to the likes of Google Cloud, AWS or Azure. OVH has their own backbone network so very often your traffic will enter their network at your local IX, which is a huge

Our Hong Kong NAT VMs have decent connectivity to China - these arent guaranteed routed of course as those come at a very high price point but this may suffice for you. We have clients from China who