So I decided I would give up shared hosting for good and instead run a VPS based Linux instance with Plesk to help me setup web sites and mail accounts for a few of my domains. The license fee seemed to be well worth the money. Plesk brings a whole lot of power into one comprehensive web interface which saves me huge amounts of time and trouble compared to doing everything manually.
But I was rather disappointed when I realized that such a fundamental puzzle piece as a spam filter wasn't included in my license. Here's why I think that sucks and how I worked around the problem – twice.
