I know this is not answering what you originally asked, but as per the recent discussion, smtp.com offers a cheap email gateway - just change your outgoing smtp server settings and send as fast as you like through your existing application.
Cheers, -Dan On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Jochen Daum <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
