Re: Simple Email System (SES) Provider

On 2 Jun 2012, at 17:20, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 17:33 +0200, Matijn Woudt wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Don Wieland <donw@pointmade.net> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I built a system in PHP/mySQL where a group of users post events, sign-up >>> for events, change their arrival times, remove thier names from events, and >>> post related notes on the events. Each time an action is done, an email is >>> generated to the entire group that their has been a change. Pretty standard >>> stuff... >>> >>> Today I just got an Mail Delivery System email with this error: >>> >>> Domain dwdcweb.info has exceeded the max emails per hour (350/350 (100%)) >>> allowed. Message will be reattempted later >>> >>> I contacted my VPS provider and they just alerted me that there is a limit >>> on how many emails my server can send per hour. >>> >>> They recommended I find a 3rd party service provider with support PHP API >>> connections. >>> >>> My budget is limited. Does anyone have any suggestions of companies that >>> might work for my scenario? >>> >>> Any feedback is appreciated ;-) >>> >>> Don >>> >> >> Maybe you can group all mails to a single group together (with >> contacts in BCC), so you only need to send 1 mail instead of 100 for a >> group of 100 users? >> >> - Matijn >> > > > I would assume that each recipient would count as a single email, so if > you send one email to 150 people, you'd be 25% through the hourly quota. Dunno how mathematics works in your universe, but 4 * 150 != 350 in the one in which I live :) Don: Options... * Switch to a dedicated server, or a VPS host that doesn't have that limit. * Use Gmail or another hosted email provider (may have a similar limit but I've never run into it with Gmail). * Use a service like http://sendgrid.com/. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/