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Running your own email server with Mail-in-a-Box

How to install and maintain your own mail server using Mail-in-a-Box on Ubuntu 14.04.

Remove Netplan from Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (18.04)

This guide walks you through the steps required in order to replace Netplan with the older ifupdown package on Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (18.04).

Workaround for instances with networking bug on Ubuntu 18.04

We recently discovered a bug on instances launched with the Ubuntu 18.04 image. This bug is caused by the new networking configuration abstraction renderer called Netplan that is used by default in Bionic.

Restoring old network style instances

So, you want to restore a snapshot you have taken on our old style networking setup to a brand new shiny instance on our new style networking setup and it doesn't work! Learn how to build a new instance from an old-style snapshot.

Setting up a Postfix Mail Server with Dovecot

Postifx is a very popular mail server that can be setup on Linux relatively easily and it is extremely configurable and easy to maintain. Paired with Dovecot for POP/IMAP functionality, you can have a basic mail server setup within minutes.

Configuring Block Storage on Civo

Block storage allows you to create and attach additional storage volumes to your instances.

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