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I have a question... Currently, I am running a personal email server on a FreeBSD VPS hosted at Kamatera (a company from Israel, of all places). I do consider switching to the cheapest Hetzner cloud VPS plan, but I need to be sure that the following requirements are met:
Can Hetzner provide this?
I believe they do. People do run mailservers on Hetzner, they even have a Mailcow setup guide.
They no longer provide FreeBSD images but there's a workaround here that might work for a VPS as I believe their KVM console is for dedicated servers only but I can't immediately verify that.
I'm running email services on their VPS too. They block tcp/25 by default to every VPS, so you need to request opening of the port, but at least for me it wasn't any problem and I can well understand why they do that.
My server with email (from which I'm posting this) is hosted by Hetzner. I have reverse DNS, full control over the DNS entries, nothing seems to be on any block lists.
I don't know if they provide BSD images but you can boot every server into a rescue Linux from which you should be able to download whatever you need.