Migrating from shared hosting to a VPS
reddit / selfhosted

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bluestreak_v · 2023-11-15 00:04

Hi there. I got a shared hosting plan for a website that doesn't see
much traffic these days. It doesn't cost too much (\`around $6 USD per
month?), but I recently started using DigitalOcean to run a
MeshCentral server, and I'm thinking I could save some money by
consolidating the website into the same DO server. I'll probably want
to upsize from the current $4/month droplet to the $6 one, and it
would still be cheaper than having the two separate services.

Thinking about the migration, the website is a PHP based forum with
MySql, so that should be easy enough to port over. I'll probably want
to replace cPanel with something like HestiaCP. DO seems to have its
own DNS management function built-in (luckily, my DNS registrar is
separate from the web host).

What stumps is what to do about email... I don't think I want to
selfhost an email server. The forum itself will also need to send out
emails (registration, alerts, etc) but I don't think that's an issue
after setting up SFP records. Its how to handle incoming email that
gets me stumped. Is there a free way to forward the emails to a gmail
account?

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lesigh · 2023-11-15 00:49

Google "free SMTP relay". Services like sendgrid will give you xxx
amount of emails per day or month

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thekrautboy · 2023-11-15 01:39

Tons of options, just search this sub for "mail"

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zfa · 2023-11-15 02:41

> Its how to handle incoming email that gets me stumped. Is there a
free way to forward the emails to another email address - maybe a
gmail account?

If you move your DNS to Cloudflare you can use their inbound mail
routing. Does just what you want. In fact it can do even more if you
like as outside of their simple click-click-boom email forwarding
config (which is something available on many DNS hosts) you can even
parse emails and perform actions to the nth degree using Email
Workers. They're wonderful.

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bluestreak_v · 2023-11-15 17:44

Cloudflare sounds perfect. Thanks!

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tech2but1 · 2023-11-15 20:05

SMTP is for outgoing.

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tech2but1 · 2023-11-15 20:07

Gmail, and add your domain as an alias?

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