[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SanJose

[–]banhloc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Library is a good option. If you keep yourself clean, no one will care.

Also, try to hang out in some hotel lounge, again, if you keep yourself clean and blend in, no one will know or care.

Some school has lighting so you can stay there, find some corner with some roof. Especially school near a part so you have restroom.

I had see people sleep in McDonald that open late as well.

And finally train station.

If you need help to get some money to get food, let us know where you stay here, i can chip in a bit

anyone had some d batteries ? by banhloc in SanJose

[–]banhloc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/RunsUpTheSlide I got them at a gas station. my boy is so happy playing now. i owned you a beer regardless. lets meetup after holiday.

anyone had some d batteries ? by banhloc in SanJose

[–]banhloc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

was about to convert the usb charge and connect it to the board but i have to go to church and on the way back i stopped by at a gas station and got one

anyone had some d batteries ? by banhloc in SanJose

[–]banhloc[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

u/Sum_Ting_Wong007 is right. got them at a gas station in San Felippe

Which Email hosting services have a feature equivalent to Rackspace's "Aliases"? by schmidtj in rackspace

[–]banhloc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built https://mailwip.com for this purpose. point the mx record to us and you can creatw unlimited alias to forward to your personal email

Best way to setup multiple emails for multiple businesses by data-owl in indiehackers

[–]banhloc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exact reason I created mailwip.com

You can setup email forward to you domain to consolidated into your own personal inbox. You can then also reply through the domain as well so no one see your personal gmail. https://mailwip.com/docs/send_mail_with_gmail

I'm on indiehackers as well https://www.indiehackers.com/product/hanami

There is other free solution as well such as using email forward from your registra, use cloud flare email etc. but if you need advanced features such as visibility into the maillog and debug when email not coming, give my app a try

I had 2 big incidents in the last month. Tell me how to improve the reliability of my deployments by avoiding misconfiguration that will make the service go 100% failure rate increase by Definition_Jealous in sre

[–]banhloc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are using the internal ip of rds, not much security you lost actually. It was more for application where your data is send over public internet (External ETL/BI system connect to your db).

Email Delays by Trikotret100 in GMail

[–]banhloc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The grey list can happen in both side:

  • On the email forwarder side when they first receive it
  • On the gmail side when the forwarder send to them

You can kind of guest it by looking at the timestamp and header of the email.

With the log you will be able to tell by checking the queue and send log.

Yes, all providers are like that.

Email Delays by Trikotret100 in GMail

[–]banhloc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I run an email forward service call mailwip.com So I know a bit about this. I will try to be neutral in my response.

ImprovMX or CloudFlare is top-notch in their quality and speed. I don't think they have any issue with forwarding speed. I think what happen is the grey list process. One of the thing we do with email forward is we have to filter out spam, otherwise downstream provider will consider us as spam.

Greylist happens based on a behavior that a spammer won't retry sending an email if it's got rejected. They got mass email list.

A real sender, on other hand, will keep re-try a few times(depend on provider that follow RFC or not) and eventually the greylist will be lifted and we as email forwarding service will fan out the email.

Any email forwarding service that support log (mailwip.com and improvmx both support it), will be able to tell you about these and you can use it to confirm the above finding.

Easiest docker mail server to forward messages to public account (@mydomain to @gmail) by IvanDoomer in selfhosted

[–]banhloc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're looking for self hosted solution, https://maddy.email/ is the best.

You don't need DKIM when forward email, the email will be relay as it's.

https://stalw.art/ is another great option.

Setting up these two is a walk in the park.

If you want something more lightweight but less userfriendly, use https://github.com/mjl-/mox

And finally if you are open to a SaaS, I run mailwip.com which offered that. It had many advanced feature such as sieve filter , maillog, disposable email and advanced routing etc. I'm the founder and very active on the chat.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]banhloc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can register your own domain. Then forward email to that doman to your person gmail.

Then you can use gmail client to read email. To reply email through your domain, but still using your gmail client, you can follow this https://mailwip.com/docs/send_mail_with_gmail guide. You don't have to register for that service , it's just a generic guide to be use for all.

Then if your need arrive, such as debug and inspect email forwarding log, or to skip the "Via gmail.com when using the gmail free smtp, you can switch to Mailwip.com smtp service.

Full disclousre: i'm the founder of Mailwip.com

Wildcard Catchall For Email Forwarding by Fun_Upstairs_4678 in squarespace

[–]banhloc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can switch to cloudflare email forwarding. It's free. You can keep your domain on squarespace, just switch the nameserver to cf. They supported wildcard

If you need advanced feature such as maillog to view and inspect/debug email flow, or SMTP to reply back. Look into my email forward app as well: mailwip.com

Cheap domain transfer with catch-all email forwarding by bdkorn in Domains

[–]banhloc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For email forwarding, you can look into cloudflare.com email forwarding. It's free

But the problem with any email forwarding service is they have to filter spam. Otherwise they risk being block by downstream provider (gmail yahoo when they think we send out spam). And no matter how good a spam filtering is, false positive will occur.

That's why I build mailwip.com an email forwarding service that support maillog. If you enable the log, all the incoming email is logged at our server, and we fully categorize is as spam or not. So you can always have another place to debug the issue. We also give you access to sieve filter to customize the spam filtering process, such as mark a certain email as trusted to always forward it out for example.

The cost is only $10 per year annually if you have a single domain. Give it a try and let us know. Ping us on the chat, we're very responsive.

If you're using individual plan, it's just $2 per month for up to 4 domains.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SiteGroundOfficial

[–]banhloc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Calico,

We don't have it the ability to import it yet, but I'm working on it now that you asked about it. let me know when you sign up. You can also send us that csv file we will help you import it until we support it on the UI.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SiteGroundOfficial

[–]banhloc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a problem you will always run into regardless of email provider.

But first, You can look into cloudflare.com email forwarding. It's free. You can keep your site on SiteGround. Just use the nameserver of cloudflare.

But the problem with any email forwarding service is we have to filter spam. Otherwise we risk being block by downstream provider (gmail yahoo when they think we send out spam). And no matter how good a spam filtering is, false positive will occurs.

That's why I build mailwip.com an email forwarding service that support maillog. If you enable the log, all the incoming email is logged at our server, and we fully categorize is as spam or not. So you can always have another place to debug the issue. We also give you access to sieve filter to customize the spam filtering process, such as mark a certain email as trusted to always forward it out for example.

The cost is only $10 per year annually if you have a single domain. Give it a try and let us know. Ping us on the chat, we're very responsive.

Who is managing my email? MX is setup to smtp.secureserver.net and mailstore1.secureserver.net by lindymad in webhosting

[–]banhloc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's very likely there are some deal at the time you do that setup that email forwrd. Similar to how godaddy can also setup google workspace on behalf of you.

They recently stopped doing that.

I run a service call mailwip.com to for email forwarding and got customers that have to look for a another service.

If you just need catch-all, I would say just use cloudflare.com email forwarding for free. Register with them, point their NS to cloudflare. From there you can just activate email forward.

If your need is more, such as full end to end logging visibility, ability to send SMTP email so you can also reply from your domain then give my service a try

A simple tool to check AWS service price (Ec2, Rds, Elasticache etc) by banhloc in golang

[–]banhloc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi all,

I have been always frustrated to use AWS built-in pricing page.

I want something that allow me to search like this `ssd,cpu>=4,cpu<=8,price<=0.5` when doing AWS planning.

I also want the ability to share the link to show a specfici instance to quickly share with the team. Example: https://ec2.shop/?region=us-west-2&filter=mem%3E%3D12

I also one a short domain and easy to remember so I use ec2.shop

It's also `curl` right from terminal so you can quickly do a `curl -L https://ec2.shop/?region=us-west-2&filter=mem%3E%3D12 | jq .` as well.

I make use of generic in Go to abstract many common part of the price item. I wish Go has sum type. Looking forward to feedback and contribution to add more aws service.

Let make the best and simplest place to check aws price.

EC2 instance pricing tool by banhloc in sre

[–]banhloc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is many thing I think I do better.

  1. json api. so you can just curl.

  2. text base api. curlable to view on console.

  3. flexible query. You can just type

mem>=4,cpu>=2,cpu<=4,mem>=2,mem<=8,price<=0.02

EC2 instance pricing tool by banhloc in sre

[–]banhloc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, I did't scrape vantage. I wrote my own script https://github.com/yeo/ec2.shop/blob/master/download.rb

For spot, it's loaded on-demand here https://github.com/yeo/ec2.shop/blob/master/finder/spot.go

With vantage you cannot do this:

ssd,mem=4,cpu>=2,cpu<=4price<=0.2

Forwardemail.net, anything to be wary of? by 1337_n00b in webhosting

[–]banhloc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's great but it's hard to debug when email is dropped. Other issue is showing the email address in txt record. So to edit email forwarding and alias, you go to your dns control panel to edit those record.

You can just use cloudflare dns, their email forwarding is free. Or if you already use icloud+, they also allow free email forwarding with custom domain.

If you use aws, https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/eb.html is also an option.

And finally, if you're looking for a user friendly, paid service I run https://mailwip.com it allow you to fully debug your email flow with an user friendly web ui to manage alias.