Recommend FreeBSD VPS

[Charles Sprickman]

On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:34 AM, Pete French wrote:

> Not sure if what you are after is ajils, but I have had excellent
> experience with Exonetric in the UK. They are the only people I now
> use for FreeBSD hosting, both real hardware and jails.

Slightly OT (and NOT related to Exonetric!) but relevant to some
when shopping for a VPS/colo provider.  Recently I've seen a bit of
a spike in spam that sails through our filtering.  In many cases,
the sender was someone running a VPS or dedicated box that was
handling the whole spam chain - sending the email, hosting the
tracking links, and in some cases hosting whatever crap was being
spamvertised.  Everything was setup correctly - HELO was right, DNS
was right, html mail was properly formatted with only a bit of
bayes-busting gibberish at the bottom in a white font; it basically
looked legit except for the part where they are spammers.  In other
words, it reminded me of the bad old days when you had spam-friendly
hosters - these people seem quite comfortable paying for a VPS or
dedicated box in the US and spamming away.

Most of these were coming from ColoCrossing IP space.  I suggest
googling that company and looking up their blocks on your favorite
RBLs, as there is a bit of drama there, but do note that many of the
very low-cost VPS operations seem to be using this company.

Be aware of who your neighbors are if your VPS needs to send email,
or if you feel icky about getting a cheap VPS by moving into a shady
neighborhood.

Charles

> 
> cheers,
> 
> -pete.
> 
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