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[rmstallman]

Hi Folks,

I am shopping for a cheap VPS and have found 1and1.com, which seems to suit my needs (server uptime, and English speaking support staff not a necessity). Before I jump in, I have a few questions regarding hosting companies and their expectations of a VPS customer.

I plan on running the following services on this vm running FC6 (os noted from their webpage)

- bind9 : serve up external DNS requests (tcp and udp 53).
- postfix : redundant MTA to act as a failover for an MX pool. Requires inbound on tcp port 25, and tcp port 465 (plain text, and SSL based delivery)
- apache : small web server , serving up static html (tcp inbound 80/443)
- ssh : remote console access (tcp 22)

Poking through this form has pointed to numerous threads where customers must contact their support staff, requesting the opening of non-standard ports etc.. Which raises the following questions :

Do VPS providers, filter inbound/outbound traffic? Or will the IP address assigned to my VPS allow for unrestricted in/out bound connections to the WAN?

Am I limited in what software i can install on my system?

My assumption is that, this VM is my new playground with no network or process related restrictions ?

cheers,
rms

[david510]

By default ports should be open on a vps. You can block/unblock them using firewall program installed. All softwares can be installed as in a normal server, but take note there will be memory restrictions.

[mkolbjor]

None of the VPS I've tested have had any filtering like that, everything have been up to my config

[Kaumil]

Originally Posted by rmstallman

Do VPS providers, filter inbound/outbound traffic? Or will the IP address assigned to my VPS allow for unrestricted in/out bound connections to the WAN?

What kind of filtration are you talking about? It's very rare that a provider would do this for legitimate in/out traffic. It's also best to ask the provider of choice for the clearest answer.

[relichost]

Hi

In my experiance you nromally just get an External IP and there is no blocking on that what so ever.

The only filtering/blocking is what you have in your firewall.

HTH

[almazlamaz]

1and1 sucks big time in shared hosting. Have no idea about dedicated, but that's what's making me look for a VPS as my sites grow and 1and1 ___constantly____ is throwing out mysql errors, nether less there is no way to export mysql database no matter what you use - php admin, export via vbulletin, etc. it just chokes up at the beginning and u end up having 10 megs instead 100 megs db.