@mwl Running port 25 behind a residential IP is an instant block. I have everything running like clockwork behind a mid-sized hosting provider, but I'm always looking to improve things.

@colin @mwl I run my own on a vps but I wonder if it would be too shitty to run it at home and keep the VPs as a proxy with socat services?

@a @mwl @colin that's exactly how I run things, extremely cheapo vps as an exit node basically, vpn all the traffic to my home server (had to do some port forwarding etc, but works well).

@Nux @mwl @colin do you have connectivity issues from home? tbh that is my biggest concern.

@a @mwl @colin Never noticed anything and you'll laugh, but my uplink at home is 5G.. so significantly higher latency than your usual broadband. However http and smtp are very forgiving of that.
Of course, you can only sustain so much upload, but if all you're hosting is some blogs and emails, then it's no problem at all. Even 5-10 Mbps is OK for me.
In fact I've just measured now on pingdom and my crappy 5G hosted static site beats the heck out of our $dayjob corporate wordpress one!

@Nux @mwl @colin I guess I could give it a try, but with an extra machine, not my current ones

@a @mwl @colin Ionos sells small VPSes for $2/m, that's what I use (in UK).