120,000 Newsletter Subscribers - What Script To Use
Jan 20, 2009
We're currently trying to create a HTML newsletter (weekly) for our vBulletin members.
We have roughly 120,000 members subscribed to the newsletter we want to send out.
What is the best solution for this many subscribers? PHPList is efficient but many issues with HTML, and poMMo does not handle a list that large very well (even though they advertise it does).
We have a large dedicated server, so resources are not a problem.
Got a few questions regarding sending out mass emails. First of all, I have a client that has a double opt-in newsletter that he sends out every other month. The newsletter has over 50,000k subscribers. I was wondering what precautions need to be taken when managing a newsletter of this size.
1) Does he need to send it from a different domain name? If his site is blah.com should he send the mass newsletter from blahnewsletter.com instead?
2) Should the newsletter be sent from a different IP address than the site is hosted on?
3) How do domains / ip addresses / email addresses end up on black lists, and if he does get blacklisted, what consequences would this have on his site, personal email address, server, etc.
Assuming you were given the task of managing a newsletter of this size, how would you set it up as to avoid unwanted consequences?
I used to have a server under Plesk. I don't have the server anymore, but I kept all the files from the server (not a plesk dump). Where do I find the subscribers database and how can I extract it?
Now we want to send newsletters to each of our site members.
If we use the normal "mail" command in PHP, it will create a heavy load for the server so that after sending the email, because of the heavy traffic which gets created on the server, the email will either not be send or it can take up to one week till it gets send out.
Is there any better and easier procedure or method for sending these types of emails?
My current VPS has told me that sending 10000 emails using a newsletter system is not possible in a VPS environment, it seems i cant send over 200 at one time without numfile errors and exim bugging out, is this to be expected? They have told me i need a dedicated server that is highly tuned which to be honest sounds like overkill to me. Should i expect this from all VPS providers ?
(I wont mention my VPS provider as they have been very helpful in all other ways and it may be that they are completely right and i do not wish to affect their reputation here)
I wanted to know wich hardware parts/specs are most important when running a php newsletter script like Interspire Email Marketer [url] or Omnistar Mailer (www.omnistarmailer.com/).
So im looking for a server that as to be able to have between 50 to 200 diferent emails clients, each one sending 20.000 to 80.000 emails / moth.
Based on my needs wich will be the adequate choice?
Server 1: CPU: P4 2.8Ghz HT RAM: 1GB HDD: 2 x 80GB HDD SATA
Server 2: CPU: 1 x Intel XEON DUAL-CORE 3075 [2.66GHz/4MB/1333MHz FSB] RAM: 2GB HDD: 2 x 250GB SATAII HDD
Server 3: CPU: 2 x Dual Core Xeon 5110/4MB cache RAM: 4GB HDD: 2 x 73GB SAS - 10K RPM [RAID 10]
More Questions regarding hosting details:
a) In terms on CPU, do i need require P4, Xeon or 4Core Xeon?
b) In terms on RAM, will i need 1, 2, 4, or more Gb?
c) In terms on Hard Drive, i will be just fine using SATA or do i need faster, like SAS, 10k Raptor?
