I know there are probably few who do this. I have a VPS located in Germany, running an opensim server and my own email server. It’s been, by and large, trouble free for 4 – 5 years. However, it runs Debian, and has been surviving on Wheezy. Recently, mono (required for the opensim server) has become something of a mess on Wheezy, so time to dist-upgrade.
This went well, until I could no longer receive email (I could send). Took me a week to reconfigure and get it working again (thank heavens the VPS provider keeps automatic backups).
Finally got it going again on Sunday with both servers working. Lo and behold, another major update today, including postfix, and killed my email receiving again (though different problem. With the previous, no email would get through. Now, I simply can’t login to my email).
back on this morning’s backup, but, and I know it’s a long shot, but does anyone have any idea what they keep changing. I’m blowed if I can find current documentation?
After restoring this morning’s backup it’s working again, but now I’m scared to install the whole bucket load of updates that have suddenly appeared.
Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.
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