How Do Social Networks Handle Email Notifications?
Jun 23, 2008
Run a small but fast-growing social network and we're getting to the point where our email notifications (e.g., SoAndSo Added You as a Friend) isn't scaling and we need to find an alternative solution. We're going to be sending out 1,000+ notifications a day and one option would be to run Postfix (or something similar) on our servers. Of course the challenge with this is message delivery. Our concern is that even if abide by strict protocols and give our people unsubscribe options we'll still get listed as Spam. Some of the hosted services seem to have solutions that help with this given that they have good relationships with major ISPs, email hosts, etc.
Server configuration: CENTOS 5.3 x86_64 cPanel 11.24.4-C35075 - WHM 11.24.2 - X 3.9
Is it possible to write a script that will be sending notifications on user e-mail, that is already pre-configured in their account, whenver user will log in to FTP.
Are there any pre-made scripts or if not, any hint's on writing something like that?
When my server reboots I get about 12 email notifications from Watchdog that services are being started.I don''t get the same thing from my other Plesk servers upon reboot. How can I stop it?
I have Plesk and SmarterMail running on a server.SmarterMail is setup as 'require SMTP authentication before relaying' email (I think this is standard practice).I cannot get Plesk to send any emails, such as forgotten password reminders and notifications.Plesk tries to send but gets a "550 Authentication is required for relay" error... which is expected, because I can't find anywhere in Plesk to enter the authentication details for the email account being used to send (relay) the emails.
I don't want to setup a 'whitelist' or 'bypass relay authentication' for 127.0.0.1 as I have had a spam issue with this previously.where to enter the username / password details so Plesk Panel can authenticate and send it's emails?
My Plesk Panel stopped to send notifications a while ago, I don't receive mails when the backup are done, the clients can't receive their passwords if they need to reset...
The mails are not being forwarded when they configure it in the panel (I receive a mail in mail1@mydomain.com and I want it forwarded automatically to mail2@gmail.com or wherever).
I don't see nothing about the plesk panel mail in the postfix log and I don't know what else to check.
We seem to be getting 3 copies of all email notifications whenever an account is created, it seemed to happen after a server transfer but I can't see anywhere that is set up as a duplicate.
Fehler: Unable to create notification: Unable to create Note object: Note: unable to select: no such row in the table and Fehler: Benachrichtigung kann nicht aktualisiert werden: Unable to create Note object: Note: unable to select: no such row in the table
In tools&settings -> Email Notifications
I run plesk 12.00.18#7 and i have upgrade from 11.5.30 ....
I am launching a picture rating social networking website that I am confident will pull in at least 3-4k people on the first day and at least 1.5k for the rest of the month. I'm estimating that I should do somewhere around 50,000 visits the first month.
Why? Because I served as the promotions/marketing director for a site where I produced pretty similar results and am confident I can do the same thing this time around. Now my problem is that I have no idea if this amount of traffic would require a dedicated server or not.
I am getting confuse about all those companies and reviews. All reviews tell you different story. Please tell me which review site is reliable and they don't put good review of company just because of affilate.
I need VPS for starting and once we get enough users we will take dedicated. So which VPS hosting company should I choose to start with minimum?
how I could get rid of the "newest members" "last logged in" and "most popular members" on the home page of my social engine script.. Just curious on how to get rid of them.
I am building a social network site, and I'm very skeptical about the offer the social networking company had for hosting (mainly storage and bandwidth costs). They are hosted through AT&T, and did the whole "tier 1" ******** speech, and wanted to charge $179/mbps/month, $1.17/GB for CDN storage, and $1/GB for normal storage.
I know these prices are high, and to make it worse, they offered no scalability whatsoever on this. This is a big problem, as I expect the site to be popular. I did some research, and know the prices for storage have deep discounts when buying in bulk, but not sure about scalability of bandwidth costs.
I did find several price structures for bandwidth. One of these was for HostPortal, and showed deep discounts as the bandwidth needs increased (colocated prices as low as $50 per mbps once you get above 100mbps total)
Can anyone please shed some insight on the pricing, and let me know if the scalability listed by HostPortal is common and applicable to my situation. Also, if my situation is different, can anyone give me fair market rates with regards to scalability
Also, most social networking companies restrict me from hosting it myself (they state to protect their code).
I'm working on a social networking prototype that will hopefully soon become a beta with moderate user load. I have zero experience in the field of web hosts other than rolling out a web application in an internal server at my last job.
The application is being developed in C#/ASP.NET 3.5 with MS SQL Server.
1. Given the fact that I'm trying to save on costs now and worry about scale later, how much would you think that I should spend on hosting? I figured that I'd have my SQL Server instance and the web app on the same box and it wouldn't really matter too much. Would a dedicated server be a minimum requirement? Or perhaps 2, with one hosting the database and the other hosting the application?
2. Does anyone recommend or disapprove of cloud computing?
3. Are there any other factors I must take into consideration? I'm quite ignorant on these matters, and am more focused and knowledgeable on actual development.
I plan on starting a social networking website similar to facebook using this script: www.socialengine.net
After talking to a host gator associate he mentioned that the only way to get it up was to buy a dedicated server because they won't allow it on any of their shared plans
My question is, which host/plan would you recommend for this particular project...we won't be offering photo albums and such but are expecting quite a bit of traffic and don't want the site to slow down or crash..also, any tips for a first timer?
I am doing on social networking project and I am wondering what specifications of server do we need so I can send it to my programmer to find proper hosting. I have no idea about it, please can you help me.
We are expecting at starting about 4.000 registered users.
I have an idea for a social network that could attract something like 100.000 niche users and maybe more. What kind of hardware requirements would that take to accomodate properly? I wouldn't want to cause a diminishing of the userexperience with slow loadtimes etc.
We have built a social comunity website like myspace, hi5, facebook etc. Can you please suggest what kind of hosting plan should we host on. We have developed the site using Windows Technoligies.
Even though I have set notification_interval from 120 to 120m. It might take the changed interval_limit from nagios.cfg.
I am receiving far too many e-mails and text messages in case of downtime at the moment. We're testing our monitoring servers at the moment, but we don't need a new notification every 25 minutes...
We are starting to use Nagios for some remote service checks (http, smpt, pop, ssh, etc..) and the notifications are not being sent out. We have the regular hosts configured and those are being sent out just fine.
Here's what we have currently:
Part of our services.cfg looks like this:
Code: #### Generic services template ################ define service{ name generic-service; active_checks_enabled 1; obsess_over_service 1; check_freshness 0; notifications_enabled 1; event_handler_enabled 1; flap_detection_enabled 1; retain_status_information 1; retain_nonstatus_information 1; register 0; } define service{ use generic-service name basic-service is_volatile 0 check_period 24x7 max_check_attempts 15 normal_check_interval 5 retry_check_interval 1 notification_interval 20 notification_period 24x7 register 0 } define service{ use basic-service name dns-service check_command check_dns max_check_attempts 10 check_period 24x7 notification_interval 20 notification_period 24x7 notification_options c,r contact_groups localadmin register 0 } #### HOST01 ###### define service{ use dns-service host_name host01 servicegroups mygroup service_description DNS contact_groups localadmin } To me, that looks correct. Host01's service check should inherit everything through 'use dns-service' line.
How can I completely disable ALL notifications from plesk? We NEVER want plesk to notify customers of overages.
Not only do we want to disable all notifications but I want someone at parallels to know about the bug.. It notifies people that they are over or approaching limits when they aren't anywhere near it.. Here is a sample of one of the notifications emails sent. Names and emails changed of course...
Code: From: My Name [mailto:me@mydomain.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 3:38 AM To: My Customer Name Subject: <host.mydomain.com> Notification: Resource usage by subscription has exceeded the allotments.
The 'domain.com' subscription, owned by user 'Customer Name', is approaching or already exceeded the resource usage limits:
On one CentOS 6.5 Plesk 12.0.18 install (with all MUs applied) each time an admin logs in a notification is displayed ("Plesk was successfully updated. View detailed information on the updates.") and once a week the panel generates an email notification (Plesk panel updated successfully).
Other Plesk 12.0.18 servers that are set to automatically update aren't generating this email notification or displaying the "green" notification upon login to the Plesk Panel. Is there a flag, tmp file, or a DB trigger that isn't being set properly to cause this?
