Re: [luv-beginners] Sending Bulk Mail - Own SMTP mail server on VPS vs 3rd Party Mail Service - luv-beginners

23 Sep 2017

Hi Russell,

On 23 Sep. 2017 4:45 pm, "Russell Coker" &lt;russell(a)coker.com.au&gt; wrote:

On Saturday, 23 September 2017 4:56:54 AM AEST Wen Lin via luv-main wrote:
...
  For VPS hosting service - I had looked at one
hostwinds.com (Editor's
 Choice of au.pcmag.com 2017) (~ US$ 14 / mth).  Will check out others to
 compare - basically I'm after a reasonably priced and reputable VPS web
 hosting company.  I would like to hear any recommendation, or any
 first-hand experience dealing with any particular web hosting company -
 which I'm sure many of LUV members certainly have. 
https://www.linode.com/pricing

To just send out mail you don't need much from a hosting company.  I've
found
Linode to be very good and they have services starting at $5 per month that
will do what you want.  1G of RAM should be enough for sending mail.

https://www.scaleway.com/

Scaleway starts at E2.99 per month and has 2G of RAM.

...
  For domain name (.org.au) - About $48 for 2 years. 
Any reputable Domain
 Registrar that you would recommend? 

I will check out the above 2 web hosting companies you had introduced.

There are cheaper domains available, like .click.

They already got a .org.au domain registered some time ago. So I just need
to find out where they had registered it, and then help renew it when it's
about to expire.

BTW, I thought I could use whois to find out the expiry date of this
domain, but I noticed that the registrars in Australia (for the .au) seem
to hide this date from the world. Apparently in Australia, the only way to
find out this info is to contact the registrar directly. Whereas for some
of the non-".au" domains, I could see the registration expiry date being
displayed. May be it's some sort of security measure in Australia.

...
  "*What a commercial mailing list operator does,
and which you cannot easily
...
  replicate, is build and maintain a reputation as a
responsible and
 reputable source of bulk email. If you are not going to be getting into
 that, perhaps you could benefit from getting help from a commercial mailer.
...
  ... * 
Don't send spam and don't use an IP address from a spam-friendly ISP and you
should be OK.

Very true.

...
  I also read somewhere which seemed to point to a 3rd
option:  Still use own
...
  mail server, but direct the outbound mails to an
external Mail Relay
 service.  What do you think? 
There's no point in that.  Either run your own server or use an external
company.

Thanks Russell for your input and advice.

Cheers,
Wen

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