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> If he were really knowledgeable and wanted to roll his own mail solution, he can, and stand up instances running sendmail and put in his own MX records into o
by gist 10y ago
> If he were really knowledgeable and wanted to roll his own mail solution, he can, and stand up instances running sendmail and put in his own MX records into our DNS service and manage all of the bells and whistles.
Ok that is something I actually need to do. I have a project now to bring up a smtp and imap server and I can put it on the colo box or do it on AWS. [1] Is there a specific
step by step guide to doing this with AWS. Quite frankly with all of the things you do there I wouldn't even know where to start. Otoh if I go to, say, Rackspace I can easily and quickly spin up a server (with RAID) and not have to give any thought to doing so because it's a centos server running on a vps. With AWS I don't know the difference (and would have to learn) as far as the different instances availability zones all of that (and quite frankly I have little time to do that so I would typically go with what I already know). Make sense?
[1] So what I am saying is I can do this on a colo box but don't even know where to begin to do it on AWS. I don't mean I need handholding to install and get the server working, just to get it working given the various offerings on AWS.
- mryan 10y ago> bring up a smtp and imap server and I can put it on the colo box or do it on AWS. Is that all the server will be used for? If you just want to run a Linux server 24x7 you will not be taking advantage of any AWS services, so you would probably be better off getting a colo box or VPS to act as your mail server. If you really want to run this on AWS, you just need to spin up an EC2 instance, and configure the Security Group (think of it like a firewall). There is a wizard which will guide you through the process[0]. Once the instance is running you can (optionally) use Route 53 to set up DNS records for your new instance. Also, feel free to buy my book :-) It starts with the basics like launching instances, and then moves on to more interesting AWS-specific features [1]. 0: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/launching-instance.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/launching... 1: http://www.amazon.com/AWS-System-Administration-Practices-Sysadmins/dp/1449342574 http://www.amazon.com/AWS-System-Administration-Practices-Sy...