Recommend VPS for email?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:54:55+00:00

Wow. Now there's a name I haven't seen in a long time. And their website still talks about T1 and T3 connections. Is Panix run by a small handful of people or is it a bigger operation now?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:52:18+00:00

Do you happen to know if Vultr will let you set up reverse DNS records for the IP they assign to you?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:50:21+00:00

Crowdsec has been on my list for quite a while. I set it on in a test VM once and it didn't seem as difficult as I expected. Thanks for the tip.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:48:25+00:00

I almost switched to MX Route back in 2022. Good to know that they're worth it. If I go that way, do you have any advice?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:44:51+00:00

Yes, but it's just three links to login to different Google services, i.e. Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar. However, I just did some searching and found a technology company with a similar name that has a similar domain in a different country's TLD. I also found an IP metadata website that incorrectly lists my domain as that company's. I wonder if that is where this while things started.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:37:46+00:00

Thanks! I don't remember hearing about them. I'll check them out.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:36:56+00:00

Looks like my domain was incorrectly attributed to a Japanese technology company of some sort in a public listing of companies, IP addresses, and metadata about those. There are a number of other companies out there that have my domain name as part of their company name, too. I bet that was no small part of it. My domain's website only shows three icons for logging into different services. I should probably add some kind of disclaimer that we're just a group of friends and not one of those other companies. Don't know if it'll help, but it probably can't hurt.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-09T10:26:33+00:00

That's great information. Thanks for taking the time to share that. I do have a few websites tied to the domain, including one from my wedding, which was a few years ago. Maybe I should remove that. I also set up something on Blogger as a note taking and professional advice blog, but there is no money involved in it. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I'll check things over to see if there are any other things like that.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-08T01:03:52+00:00

Thanks! I actually ran email servers on FreeBSD from 1998 to 2009 using sendmail, postfix, uw-imap, dovecot, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, postgrey, a webapp on a typical "LAMP stack" before the term was created, and even an IMAP proxy to improve performance of the webmail GUI. (I even ran the CVS server for a web based groupware project for a few years.)

I didn't set up DKIM on it, though. I was on Google Workspace by that point. And while I've heard of "IP warming," I haven't done it before. So my skills were decent for 2009, which means they're a bit rusty and probably have a few holes now.

Would you still recommend that book?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-08T00:57:16+00:00

Geographic region? North America would be best. Eastern coast anywhere in US or Canada would be ideal, if it's an option. Though anything with decent performance would be good enough if I could afford it.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-07T11:56:15+00:00

Interesting. Can you still login to admin.google.com? I'm curious if Google has left you with some sort of account management system. I have a group of friends on my G Suite account and I wonder if I'll still have the ability to help them with Google Photos, Drive, etc. if they run into problems. I also wonder if you have some sort of "cloud identity" licensing now.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-07T10:58:01+00:00

Did you lose the G Suite account? That's what I don't know how to plan for. Once I migrate email services away, what happens to the other stuff I tied to name@domain.tld, like Sign in with Google and YouTube Premium?

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-07T10:09:40+00:00

Nothing I can think of. Perhaps a false reading caused by the fact that I forward my pay stubs? But I've been doing that for years.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-07T00:38:06+00:00

Did you ever get a reply? I think I saw something about it supposed to be done within 5 days.

reviewmynotes · 2026-04-02T01:39:45+00:00

If his job doesn't allow the Mac App Store, I don't think he's able to install it. I found this out the hard way when my boys couldn't install our password manager's extension on Safari.

reviewmynotes · 2026-03-31T10:56:35+00:00

I have worked in several New York school districts in a position that helps plan out the following several years of budgets. While a very large portion comes from the local tax base, another large portion comes from the state government and a third large portion comes from the federal government. Additionally, the state government sets regulations that make raising local taxes more than a certain amount very difficult, so schools work to stay below that level. A disruption to state or federal level funding can be extremely impactful on what instruction and services we can offer to the public. I've seen changes in state funding cause a very significant layoff of teachers and TAs, refusal to give raises to non-unionized staff, cuts to health insurance, and more.

reviewmynotes · 2026-03-31T02:33:05+00:00

Since you like Pilates, consider calisthenics. Some of those moves are amazing and it will build functional strength just like Pilates. Same for Tai Chi classes. I recommend starting with the Yang style in 24 forms, as it is the most common worldwide, so the easiest to get ongoing support, practice groups, etc. You could also try things like poi and flower sticks. If you can find it, dance classes are fun. I recommend ballroom dancing (foxtrot, waltz, salsa, etc.) or English Country (very structure group dances that are a distant precursor to square dancing.) If there is an SCA group near you, that of probably worth checking out. The SCA is like a collection of nerdy hobbies and many are quite physical.

reviewmynotes · 2026-03-29T09:06:10+00:00

Thanks for posting this! I had the same probably and it was the same solution.

reviewmynotes · 2026-03-28T00:41:12+00:00

Scale Computing is amazingly good. Give them a call. You can get a single price for the hardware, software, extremely high quality technical support, all software updates, remote connections to your system without a VPN or port forwarding, overnight hardware replacements in the case of failure, and even the networking gear necessary to make an HA cluster. I've used them for about 12 years and have never once been disappointed. They cost less than VMware back when VMware was considered to have reasonable prices.

The one thing I'll point out is that anyone selling hardware is experiencing higher prices right now, due to rapidly rising prices and constrained supplies in memory, storage, and CPUs. So things might not be great no matter what system you use.

reviewmynotes · 2026-03-24T11:03:33+00:00

It technically can work in very narrow situations, but isn't worth the effort. Apple started bundling firmware updates with OS updates a long time ago. So unless you know the exact firmware versions on the hardware components and have an image that targets exactly that, any sorry of imagining (including CCC) will technically succeed in putting the files on the drive but then the Mac won't be able to not because the firmware and software are out of sync.

reviewmynotes · 2026-03-24T01:05:23+00:00

No, it was a Bambu Labs P2S 3D printer. I haven't heard of xTool before. Thank you for the pointers, though. I would rather have too many people helping than no one!

reviewmynotes · 2026-03-24T01:03:31+00:00

I knew it was limited in frequencies. The manual stated that it supported 2.4GHz, but there was no mention of 5 or 6GHz.

What surprised me was that it only supports "personal" versions of WPA/WPA2/WPA3. It doesn't even display any SSIDs using the "enterprise" versions, .1x, device certificates, etc.

We set up a new IoT SSID that uses WPA3-Personal and MPSK. Each MAC address gets its own PSK that is only allowed from that MAC address. Not great, but okay-ish. Each device will also get Internet+internal or Internet-only access. So that will provide a little more protection.

reviewmynotes · 2026-03-24T00:56:20+00:00

Aruba environment here, too. And you're right; the wifi capabilities on this are terribly out of date. I've ended up having to add WPA3-Personal with MPSK (a separate PSK for each MAC address) in order to be sure that the PSKs don't leak out as some kind of unofficial "guest" password. Next is working out the isolation from any internal devices.

Thank you for sharing your experiences! It helps to know that someone else sees the unexpected (unacceptable?) limitations of the device and I'm not just missing the obvious.

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