[Novalug] Google Total Opt-Out

[The Doctor]

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On 01/26/2012 05:09 PM, John Franklin wrote:
> Who here plans to do a Google Total Opt-Out, delete your various 
> Google-owned accounts and manage things like e-mail, photos and 
> blogs yourself?

The biggest thing stopping me is finding a VPS provider that'll let me
run my own SMTP server (i.e., inbound and outbound traffic).  For
various reasons I'd like to go with a provider OCONUS that is fairly
trustworthy and will give me enough disk space to set up a
LUKS-encrypted filesystem for /home (where the Maildirs are kept).  Of
course, a provider that isn't immediately flagged as a spam haven by
half the Net is a requirement (but I might be asking for a pony there).

Disk space is a big concern of mine these days, so a reasonable price
on about 0.5-1 TB of space on a VPS would be ideal (that's factoring
in all of my e-mail, my users' e-mail, the status.net instance, the
ejabberd instance, and my YaCy node).

I'd like to not have to auction off a heart to cover a year's worth of
hosting if I can help it.

Any suggestions?

Also, these:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ungoogled-my-week-without-google-a-list-of-alternatives-for-googles-services/

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/getting-free-of-googles-grip-the-10-top-alternatives.html

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