Just got my first dedicated box at OVHcloud and the value is insane! Ampere Altra Max, 128 cores, 256GB RAM for the price of a used x86 toaster. But here's the problem: they assigned me an IP that's on fifty email blacklists!
I found out when my mail queue exploded. Opened a ticket, they said "we're not responsible for prior abuse." Cleanup is taking weeks! MXToolbox is my new homepage. Has anyone else hit this? Is there a way to check IP reputation before you pay?
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Oh no armstrongvds thats brutal, cant imagine the headache. The waiting, the tickets going nowhere, OVHcloud should know better but they dont. Wont, reputation is everything in email land, they just hand you poison, dont they, its like buying a house. Finding out the pipes are full of lead, you didnt ask for this, you shouldnt have to fix it, the internet has memory. No forgiveness, blacklists are graveyards, youre the one digging, wkwkwk not really laughing just sad for you
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Armstrongvds's problem | cat /dev/blacklists | wc -l | 50 | grep "not our fault" | the provider pipes blame downstream | sed 's/responsibility/null/g' | real solution | curl mxtoolbox.com | jq '.score' | test before payment | dont be the grep that finds out too late | sort -u | your due diligence | wc -l | one command
Actually OVHcloud's Terms of Service state clearly that IP reputation is the Customer responsibility. Actually you agreed to this at checkout. Actually most Budget providers operate this way. Actually the cleanup time depends on each Blacklist operator's delisting process, oder? Actually I recommend checking SenderScore and Spamhaus before any Email deployment. Actually two weeks is normal for Composite block list, oder?
