The effectiveness of black-listing mail servers is questionable. The overall spam volume does not appear to be impacted and keeps going up. The argument that the amount of spam would rise faster without blacklisting is nonsense. Blacklisting affects a very small percentage of emails that are in a gray zone between spam and ham, such as [...]

I host this blog and a few other personal sites at WebHostingBuzz (WHB), all on Linux. I host the site for the Austrian-American club at Godaddy.com (ASP). Unfortunately, I host the mailing list for the Austrian-American club at WHB as well, requiring frequent emails sent from one domain to the other. We are paying Godaddy for [...]

www.austria-boston.org, an ASP 1.0 site, was hosted by a company called Burlee starting about 6 years ago. Burlee was later acquired by Interland, and ended up as a part of Web.com. The hosting fees were never adjusted and ended up being disproportionally high, so I started looking around for an alternative to realize some savings [...]