nitrolife

You need to create an MX record in the DNS zone of your domain. Something like:

@ IN MX 10 my.zome.
@ IN MX 20 server1.my.zome.

You can create 1 MX record or more. 10 and 20 server priority for input mails.

Then you need to create an spf record. There are several options here. For example

@ IN TXT "v=spf1 +a +mx -all"

allows you to send emails from A domain records, then from MX domain records and prohibits from all other hosts.

Theoretically, you can only create an SPF record with A but without MX and dont create MX DNS records. Although I have not tried this configuration.

This is the minimum set after which you will get into spam, but at least the letters will reach.

You also need to make a PTR record to avoid spam folder, but this is not possible on a dynamic IP.

interesting facts about LVM:

1. You can make a volume snapshot of the system before a major change (for example, an update).

2. You can enable caching and use HDD together with SSD cache

3. You can build raid 0,1,5 directly on LVM (you still need modules from mdraid)

4. Even without a raid, you can expand the partition beyond one disk to another or migrate the partition from disk to disk (without even disabling it)

However, all this is done from the console and I do not know if there is a GUI.

If you need fast online share you can use nginx + WebDAV module . You can use ip filters or auth. Or disable any auth.

You can create graph on the UI and then export to json. To be honest, it’s hard for me to imagine a situation where graphs need to be edited so often. After all, there are excellent template engines in Grafana itself. For quick look anyone can use Explore panel. Maybe I don’t have so much data…

Grafana sends an email screenshot of the graph when an event is triggered on the graph. You can see alerts part on any graph for understand.

You can configure grafana without gui. That explain in https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/provisioning/

prometheus use own time series database. you can connect influxdb to grafana and send alarms from grafana, but alertmanager better i think. node-explorer can collect all this data (sensors, VM/PC load etc.)

I use:

1. Monitoring server - prometheus
2. Alert manager for prometheus - alertmanager. You can write any triggers here.
3. Web UI for prometheus - Grafana
4. Exporters for prometheus - node-exporter, blackbox-exporter, mysql-exporter, psql-exporter etc. You can find exporter for everything you need.
5. Some services native support pormetheus. Docker for example: https://docs.docker.com/config/daemon/prometheus/

If you whant cluster you can install thanos on prometheus.