Re: Shell account

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Brian Elfert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Jay Hennigan wrote:
>
> > Just run pine locally on your own box.  Why do you need a shell on your
> > ISP?
>
> Access from anywhere.  I really don't want the headache of running my own
> server and dealing with security and all that that.  I don't even have a
> spare PC to install Linux onto at this point.
>
> I already spend all day dealing with system admin and I don't want more to
> do when I get home.  It is easier to let someone else handle it.
>
> Brian Elfert
> --

How about slicehost.com - now owned by rackspace.  $11/month will get
you a small slice with root.  You pay extra for bandwidth - but it
sounds like your bandwidth charges will be very small.  I've been
using it for about a year with no issues.

http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing

Alternatively, a google premium account will get you spam proof email
for $50/user/year with a web interface.  I used to run my own
sendmail/dns/spam-filters/pine on my own hardware - then figured out
that it was costing me $35/month for the electric power (UPS and
Airconditioning) just to run my own server.  Not to mention capital
equipment costs and the time to re-work the spam filters every couple
of months.   I've got filters/folders setup (pine style) for all my
techie lists and googles search engine helps me find stuff faster in
my email than I could with the unix command line.  dnsmadeeasy.com for
DNS - the interface it a pain and slow/painful to use for the
experienced unix saavy admin - but its OK for a small number of
domains that don't change that often.  And did I mention inexpensive!

Or how about a hybrid solution?  google premium for email and use the
imap4 access to your own MUA on rackspacecloud with the gmail browser
interface as backup.  Personally, if you use the gmail interface via a
browser for awhile you won't go back to pine - thats what happed to me
- and I was a *long* time pine user.

Regards,

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