Wow, what a busy last few days I had. Actually it was also extremely interesting. First my company was audited and I was interviewed like over a hundred times. But they asked the weirdest questions and most of which I told them to refer to my supervisor. Hahaha, my supervisor was blackfaced the entire time. Next, came the setting up of an email server. This is the interesting part - setting up and hosting an email server. I mean, I had thought that it was just buy a server and that’s it! I was dead wrong.

Setting up a email server requires a number of things, like Domain names, DNS hosting, setting up Reverse DNS records(PTR Records), setting up A & MX records, spam, antivirus, what type of servers and operating system, which Email Server software, which Internet connection to use and so on. I guess if you do it the first time, you learn everything, right down from which Internet access to get to actually how the mails are sent and received. It was a challenge but I hope everything will be alright. And the experience I gathered from this little project will be very useful for me down the line. Soon, I will be setting up email servers for small and medium sized companies (I hope)! So the next email server you send your mails to could be created by yours truly. You should be honoured. If it doesn’t work or rejects your mail, blame it on someone else.

Anyway, it took me a few days to completely setup the server and now, the only thing left is “load” testing the server and seeing whether the server can take the huge load that is expected after the migration. If not, I will be in deep trouble. Wish me luck.