Thread: Backup VPS server

Originally Posted by e107xs

you know of mailfail services for £1.50?

do tell

Nope I just looked at the website like most punters would:

How to Order MailFail SecondaryMail...
The cost of the MailFail SecondaryMail service is now only £150.00 + VAT per annum (or £10/month if paying monthly) per domain for providing the email delivery backup channel for all mail for one domain (regardless of the number of users or email accounts).

Originally Posted by e107xs

£10 a month isn't 7 times more expensive than any other service tho'.

Did you misread the £150 as a monthly fee?

Not in the slighest - there are others that do much the same service for £20+vat per annum. Three discreet MXs on physical hardware in three UK locations, one on a.n.other providers transit with free ClamAV... What more could you ask for other than the company name

BTW said company sells perhaps five-ten new accounts per day and around 20-30 additionals to existing clients, mostly 3rd party IT maintenance outfits... now I now why

there's a typo on there which I'll get fixed it £100/pa or £10/month - not sure where it got the £150 from ...

Originally Posted by othellotech

C4's largely a defunct O/S now - so you really should be thinking of upgrading

For cpanel/dns C5 is perfect - however I'm sure we an install an archaic obsolete out-of-date o/s on a VPS if you insisit ...

Upstream production phase is until Feb 29 2012, so called CentOS 5 'out of date' is a bit unfair. There's no reason not to use CentOS 4 for what the OP is describing.

Originally Posted by samb

Upstream production phase is until Feb 29 2012, so called CentOS 5 'out of date' is a bit unfair. There's no reason not to use CentOS 4 for what the OP is describing.

CentOS 4 not CentOS 5

Sorry, typo

To clarify, upstream for Centos 4 is production until Feb 29 2012. Upstream for Centos 5 is production until March 31, 2014.

For those interested ...
s!=CENTOS_C=!CentOS-4!
s!=CENTOS_C_ACTUAL_VERSION=!.7!
s!=CENTOS_C_FULLUPDATES_END=!Feb 29, 2008!
s!=CENTOS_C_MAINTAINANCE_BEGIN=!Mar 1, 2008!
s!=CENTOS_C_MAINTAINANCE_END=!Feb 29, 2012!

CentOS 4 left full update phase over a year ago, and is in (ever decreasing) maintenance patches only.

There are already known issues with C4 kernels in modern virtualisation environments,

For any new install unless known C4-C5 compatibility issues exist with no work around, I can see no good reason to install an OS based on an Upstream O/S thats not been supplied for 15 months !