My VDS was down for secluded maintenance by the provide. But it was down longer than expected, it can happen.
When it came back up, I had issues logging in via SSH, that sucked! Was able to get back by frantically trying to figure out what had happened.
Not worries, shit happens. But I got back in!
Then tried to send out a newsletter. Nope, port 587 was blocked.
Blocked?! How?! What the hell is going on?!
I got fed up with ’leasing’ software and paying through the nose for SaaS products, so I spun up a VDS and got to work.
The main thing I needed was the ability to send my email newsletter without breaking the bank. So just the SMTP part of an email server.
Listening, reading and watching the ’tech bros’ talking about how hard it is to get ’email right’ scared me away from learning something I wanted.
But the only way to truly learn is to ‘do, break then fix’.