Hey all, I have a VPS with Hostinger that serves a few websites, very basic stuff, simple blogs or static pages, very low traffic.
At the moment I have ‘custom domain’ emails set up with Protonmail and also Tutanota. They are mainly for client communication one-to-one, I very rarely if ever do mass mail-outs.
I’m looking into the possibility of setting up a mail server instead, but it seems it’s generally not a good idea to run mail server and web server on the same VPS. [– if anybody thinks there may be exceptions to this, do let me know, because I would still be interested if it’s not an entirely bad idea?]
So I’m wondering about a dedicated VPS to run my mail server, but really don’t want to pay much.
In order for it to be cost effective (as opposed to just paying for a mail service with multiple custom domains), i’d want a VPS with 3GB ram and 20-30GB storage that doesn’t block port 25, for less than $6 per month.
Is this likely? Anyone know of any contenders?
You absolutely could run both on the same machine. What matters most is the quality of the IP and how you configure the server