On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2026, at 12:10 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Every time I get burned by SAAS my tendency is to assert more control. > > > I agree with this so hard I think I have a bruise (and I've been in the > SaaS business before!) > > I currently run my entire mail infrastructure with a tiny $1/mo container > running nothing but Postfix as the SMTP front end — so that traffic doesn't > originate from a residential network, which is horrible for deliverability > — and something similar would probably work for Mailman. > > lowendbox.com is the great repository of VPS host deals. They're > currently showing the same deal on the same provider I use: RackNerd. At > that point it just becomes a matter of apt install mailman and copying some > files over; getting the archives up might take some extra time investment > but at least the list itself could have continuity. > Something like that would probably make the most sense. I already subscribe to Kamatera though which is a more expensive while still being fairly cheap, but provides scalability (we probably don't need). Nothing kills like overkill. The server will end up hosting mailman, bitchin100 mediawiki (php+mysql), the home page, and CloudT. Daryl Tester offered to help get mailman going. The other stuff isn't a rush, it's still working. But I am getting off of Dreamhost. -- John.
