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by Joel_Mckay 477 days ago
Anecdotally, we have hosted email servers for old games on Hetzner without issue, as the IP pool is generally not as popular with spammers given the time cost bringing up the server OS images. It is far from perfect, but generally performs well as reporting asshats on your local network block is easy.

Almost all cloud providers with dynamic-load ephemeral IPs will show up on ban lists eventually due to vulnerability scanners, bad spiders, and spam/voip drops. However, it is far more common for Spamhaus free tiers to quietly go sideways when no one is looking.

Gmail/Outlook have their own peer policies that serve their own business posture. Google does require administrators register in their clown system as a user to exchange email, but it is effective policy that adds nuisance cost to people spinning up 30 servers a day to spam people.

Firewall Rate-limits are effective on small single-domain servers. A modern email server in Go that is isolated from each user space greatly simplifies the possible setups. =3