[vox-tech] How many people run their own mail server?

[Marc Elliot Hall]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:52:25PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> I am curious how many people run their own mail server these days? 
> 
> It seems like most have taken to Gmail. 
> 
> brian

I'm one of the old-school holdouts, I guess: still running my own public-facing servers at home.

Specs on my primary:

	Debian Stable on a physical two-socket, two-core-per-socket Xeon platform
	Postfix
	Spamassassin
	Dovecot
	Apache HTTPD

Static IP and so forth on business-class cable. 

Over more than ten years I've managed to avoid significant unscheduled downtime (even through moves from California, to Missouri, and back to Nevada) by keeping everything on UPSes -- with one three-day exception when an ice storm took out power to half of Saint Louis. Now I have a backup VPS on warm standby in case that happens here in Vegas. Further back, I had a *lot* of growing pains, though. 


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Marc Elliot Hall
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Enterprise System Architecture and Implementation