From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 958B2139694 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2017 02:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37A7723400D; Sun, 26 Mar 2017 02:57:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC74A21C0E0 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2017 02:57:07 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.36,223,1486425600"; d="scan'208";a="143470139" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([91.84.82.171]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 26 Mar 2017 03:57:07 +0100 Received: from [192.168.11.101] (unknown [192.168.11.101]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579F65F7A5 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2017 03:56:40 +0100 (BST) From: Stroller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs? Message-Id: Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 03:57:00 +0100 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-Archives-Salt: 778f605e-98a8-41af-a7ef-1f57905ca4d6 X-Archives-Hash: 1bebc1baa960fa788eb3778144532aad Hello, In the next few weeks I need to move my email server (a very old Gentoo = installation) from the closet in my home, into the cloud so that I can = go travelling and access my mail from anywhere. I've never used VM's before, but my understanding is that they look just = like a normal machine to the users inside them, and there shouldn't be = any problem with me getting used to them. My current mail server is an = old 700mhz Pentium III (I think), so performance is unimportant. I guess = VM's have some kind of web or VNC console I can log into for the initial = install (and if I screw up remote access)? 1. Are these suppositions right? 2. Any recommendations for cheap / reliable hosting providers, please? I expect to use Gentoo because I've hardly used any other distro for = years, and find others less intuitive.=20 Thanks, Stroller.