The background.
For a while, I've been wanting some place to put public facing services, but I've had some strong ideas on how I wanted it set up if I used my broadband connection (I don't want to port forward to a host within the house's network. I want a DMZ, etc.) and since I have never gotten around to completing it, I've just figured to myself that it just proves that I don't have the time to responsibly care for an exposed host.
I might not have looked at hosting services closely enough, but for as much as I've seen, I don't think many people provide the flexibility that I really want. (I want to run mod_perl, or Zope, or Tomcat, bringing them up or down as desired. I don't want modules installed in my home directory, etc.)
Another facet to this is that the provider that I use for most of my email seems to be getting worse and worse. In the name of spam prevention, a huge portion of my legitimate email gets blocked ( email from my employer gets blocked, after years of encouraging co-workers to send non-work related email to my personal address. Mailing lists like gb-reuse at aq.org , lists.apple.com, perl5porters, python-dev, are all blocked an impossible for me to access)
So unless someone can talk me out of it, what seems to me the best thing to do is to take the money I'm shelling out for poor email service and put towards VPS service. I can run a mail server on it, as well as other public facing services. CPU performance would be lower, even from what I'd pull out of the junk box to build a server out of, but network bandwidth would be higher.
Of course, price seems to vary greatly, and I'm sure service does to.
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