Email to your VPS cheaply, a little tip.

[Dopious]

Email to your VPS cheaply, a little tip.​

So you feel like you want to upgrade your server environment for your website but lack the ability to access email, here is a little tip that I use myself.

Buy a cheap and stable web host for $5-$25 a year, change your DNS to the new web host's name servers and set up your email accounts there.

Then you go in and change the A values to the VPS's IP number on the web host's DNS settings to your VPS IP number.

Cheap get`s better, most web hosts allow you to add more domains if you need to for more VPS`s that you have.

Have a wonderful Sunday out there.

Thoughts, questions or your own suggestions?

 

[Dev]

Well... that’s a cool tip for unmanaged VPS users looking for minimal cost and effort.

 

[BlogPro]

This is a great tip. But the only drawback with this approach is that your site is only as fast as your DNS server.

In the above scenario, you are relying too much on shared hosts which may neither offer the best email enviornment, neither the best DNS management.

If I were to offer you a slightly better solution -

1. For DNS management, use Cloudflare or BunnyDNS (both free)

These professional DNS setups mitigate slow DNS issues by using Anycast routing (basically responding with geographically the closest DNS route) - so when your domain is queried by a system for either sending/receiving emails or just to serve your website - the response is blazingly fast.

2. For email hosting - use a professional email host that offers you valid MX servers, SPF records, DKIM and DMARC entries (all of which can be configured in your DNS server easily).

Setup should take literal minutes as it's just a matter of copy pasting about 4-5 records.

The systems I use across my domains and can wholeheartedly recommend are

1. Zoho Mail - Pricing Page

Free for upto 5 Mailboxes - 1 domain

2. Postale.io - Pricing Page

$1 a month per domain, 2 mailboxes

$5 a month - unlimited domains, 25 mailboxes.

3. Spacemail.com - Pricing Page

(one of my new favorites)

This is by the folks at Spaceship.com/Namecheap

$5 a year - per domain.

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For domains in my PBNs, and for my AI site network - I use Cloudflare email routing. It basically is a domain forwarding service, that automatically adds the necessary MX servers and forwards all incoming email to a central email account.

So I don't have to login to hundreds of email accounts to manage guest post requests etc. and I get a free [email protected] to place anywhere on my site.

 

[Dopious]

This is a great tip. But the only drawback with this approach is that your site is only as fast as your DNS server.

Yes, I use Cloudflare for my DNS, but thats another story for another day.

 

[TheVigilante]

Yes, I use Cloudflare for my DNS, but thats another story for another day.

Let us know here man what's the cloudflare hack?

 

[Dopious]

Let us know here man what's the cloudflare hack?

Ther is no hack, they are just among fastest DNS service out there according to dnsperf.com

2. For email hosting - use a professional email host that offers you valid MX servers, SPF records, DKIM and DMARC entries (all of which can be configured in your DNS server easily).

Yeah, I got equal reliable "professional" service from my €24 a year account at Inleed.com.

 

[polecat]

If you ever want advice on their service emailing CloudFlare is a good idea great support

 

[Outlaw]

This works for me on my cost-to-performance-configured VPS

I needed Plesk but went elsewhere for something better. However, if Plesk can handle site and server administration alongside this cheat code... I think I can chop a few more gigs?

you da best

 

[Dopious]

I needed Plesk but went elsewhere for something better. However, if Plesk can handle site and server administration alongside this cheat code... I think I can chop a few more gigs?

If you have your own Plesk server you can use it for your mails and customers too, should workout great.