Hi Steve, On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Super Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got a client with a 25,000 record database of contacts that they > want to send emails to on a regular basis. All legit (i.e. not spam) > and opted in and we offer an opt-out link on all messages. > > I've got a small contacts system that I wrote that handles all the > maintaining of contacts and sending of emails, but so far I've only > used it for clients that have a few thousand contacts. > > I loaded the 25,000 contacts into the database and sent out the first > email, but the company that hosts the site rang me to complain about > the size of the mailout and that it had slowed down their mail > server. Even though I had tried to ease the load on the servers by > sending 100 emails at a time and then pausing for a minute before > sending the next 100, the large number of emails (and bounce backs > from bad addresses) had caused them some problems. > > The hosting company suggested that if I want to send such large > numbers of emails that I should get my own mail server or use a third- > party. Fair enough, they are afterall a web hosting company and not > an email provider. > > So now I'm looking at other options. I've found the likes of > mailchimp.com and campaignmonitor.com, and while they appear to be > cheap at 1 cent per email they start to get a bit expensive when > you're talking about 25,000 emails (and remember that pricing is in US > $). > > What's involved in running my own mail server? I'm a small time > developer that works from home and I only have a humble Vodafone > broadband connection. I assume that running my own mail server would > obviously use my own data allowance, and may indeed be against my > ISP's terms and conditions. > > Are there any other options open to me? I could afford maybe $100 per > mailing of 25,000.
Just get a VPOS or virtual server set up and authenticated SMTP setup on it. Example from a marketing email I got from Webdrive today: Virtual server $89 per month, Auth smtp install: $100 one off (my own experience with them). HTH, Jochen > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
