This morning I took on Comcast again as described previously. I get through to security and they say yes there is an abuse ticket open for me but can’t really tell me anything about it, oh wait, I have a server listening… that’s what’s wrong. Not allowed to have a server because this is a residential account…
Well when I signed up and asked that, no one had a problem and said it would be fine… Well it isn’t fine, you have to shut that off. Ok great, so how about you turn me back on for a week so I can get my email so I can actually get this fixed and switched around. No problem…
Huh?
That stopped me dead. Someone at Comcast who was helpful…
So thanks to the guy who turned my port 25 back on. Still irks me and I expect the only reason they are up in arms now about me having a server is because some low life wannebee tried to attack my SMTP server and got their attention but it really isn’t all that bad. I got all of my email that was sent to me in the meantime from any properly configured SMTP servers from my backup server which silently collected everything and within 10 minutes of the phone call my inbox was up to some 1800 messages (that is the personal, not the various listserver email folders like AD Org, etc).
Oh the highspeed for my friend still isn’t working properly. So if you want high speed internet that goes at the speed of a bad dialup, Comcast just may be your answer. ;o) If you are familiar with the Comcast commercials with Mr and Mrs Slowsky (Slow-Skee), well they say her internet is too slow for them even.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLs7DSxsLog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu31ybyMFuM&feature…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vHILo_-Kws&feature…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxLvmaHMDp4&feature…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBpt_waWdkw&feature…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-uPp1mBuAQ&feature…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bDhmM6tgvs&feature…
I wish they put as much into technical matters as they do commercials…
I don’t know if it would fit your needs, but I’ve migrated from running my own SMTP server (postfix) to hosting at Dreamhost (Shared Host ISP) to Google Apps for Your Domain (for my vanity domains)
Dave
I finally got tired of dealing with my own hardware and connectivity woes – especially when I had friends or family hosted on one of my servers. So I did some research and found a good VPS provider. I get a full virtual Linux server all to myself (root access), and they have tools that let you deploy a full Linux distro in a matter of minutes. So I threw Debian on my box and then installed postfix to use as a relay. It’s been a little of a learning curve but it’s been fun to get experience with it and have complete control over having an ‘edge’ device relaying back and forth to an Exchange server. If interested I recommend either SliceHost or ProVPS – each cost about $20/month for 10GB disk and 256MB RAM. Not much, but more than enough to do mail relay and some web hosting and whatever else you might desire. And they have hella fast connectivity speeds because they’re co-lo’d at InterNAP places.