So when I finally resurrected my domain after it being idle for probably about 10 years I was thinking oh I should just roll out google apps to host my email. Back in the day I ran haskovec.com off of a Sparc Server I had running I think Solaris 10 maybe, but I am not 100% sure on the version of Solaris anymore. I just ran it off of my DSL and I used dyndns to map the dynamic dns to my home DSL as I was too cheap to pay for a static IP. At that time I was running a postfix smtp server for email.

Fast forward to now, I had been considering getting a Raspberry Pi and bringing this stuff back and then I remembered seeing the offer from Amazon about free EC2 on micro-instances. I realized free hosting for a year, a real static IP and not having to fool with hardware at my house and EC2 it is. This time around I was thinking hosting my own email is too much work and the spam filtering never seems as good as going with gmail, so I figured I would sign up for googles free for 10 email addresses account. Only it doesn’t exist anymore. I needed an email to get my SSL Cert setup so I signed up for the 30 day gmail just to get that setup. As I got to thinking about it, I was like no way I am keeping this around as I am not planning on using this email so why pay for it? After some google searches and messing around I am running postfix again just to forward messages to my main email account. Problem solved and it was a free solution!