Good host outside 5/9/14 Eyes countries?

[murgero]

@Woody

I remarked on this before. I personally have difficulty to see the advantage of getting trough the trouble of setting up and running my own MIAB server if that server resides somewhere in the cloud. If the objective is to get control over my email from top to bottom a server under my own roof beats any cloud server. It needs the same TLC, is much cheaper, at least as secure and less susceptible to problems beyond my control.

I don’t know about others here, but I am using a VPS as opposed to “in-house” hosting for my email:

1. The biggest is my ISP does not allow port 25 inbound. That said, the following would be the same even if they did:
2. Although in-house is cheaper in the short term, I avoid power outages and hence, avoid mail server down time. For some who use MIAB for business will know that down time = lost $$$.
3. Hardware costs - I avoid hardware costs both for the server MIAB is on (Or other hardware) and also hardware maintenance. Such as cleaning of the device, making sure the network it’s on is working well and is secure, etc.
4. Network downtime. As you know, some ISP’s are more reliable than others. Where I am hosting, I have redundant networking enabled - Almost 0% network related down time.
5. Updating. Updating is faster for me because I have a 1Gbps downlink on my VPS.

Those are just some big reasons, but still valid. Also, I don’t think anyone was answering with a “Solid No.”. As my original response maybe comments above here states “Many ISP’s here deny access to port 25 to prevent spam.”.

That all said, if I had the time to host at home, and I knew I could keep a ~99% uptime, I would probably do it. But for now, I put my trust in my current host.