The article documents the process of setting up a new VPS for outbound email services after relocating from the US to the EU to enhance privacy for customer data. It highlights the selection of Mythic Beasts for its solid reputation and thorough order review. The author outlines their server configuration approach, which includes establishing secure SSH connections and limiting public access. The focus is on creating a reliable email service while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.
We run most of our own network services - inbound and outbound email, DNS and web presence. We run separate services for inbound and outbound email to give us more flexibility in how we set things up.
The current smarthost was configured in 2018 and hasn't really been touched much since. We're moving it to a different hosting location, in the EU rather than the US, mostly so we can make stronger privacy statements about all customer data being handled on EU located servers.
It's a nice little VPS from Mythic Beasts. It's just being used for outbound email, so I don't need much storage. It'll only have a few users - some human, some apps - so it's not going to need much CPU either.
Lock down the packet filters so only port 587 can come in from the public Internet.
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