We are custom web development company and have created a email marketing software similar to constantcontact.com .. We need a dedicated server to host this application that will allow us to send mass emails for our clients. I have figured out that not every hosting company allow that..
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I currently manage over 1 million optin subscribers in outsourced email marketing solutions such as aweber or getresponse.
I'm looking to grow to a dedicated server solution, but I know is not as easy as just put the server and the software and just send the emails.
I know there are HUGE issues with the ISPs, complaint rates, bounces, deliverability, etc...
I'm looking if there is any company that specialized in providing management or any kind of solution to mantain a dedicated server for just sending emails (not spam) and solve all the issues to have a smooth email marketing server.
my main client wants to rehash his database. Now this is a 1.5m strong list. All legitimately collected with time/IP stamp, privacy policy, etc. These clients are from the online gambling industry (legally licensed).
The problem is many of these users subscribed to our services up to 4 years ago (not all are that old, but some are), and they haven't heard from us for up to 2 years (again, some heard from us more recently).
Anyway, I've never deal with that number of emails and potential bounces. Obviously, the first round of emailing will have a large number of bounces, but that will quickly subside.
So, can you guys point me to a quality dedicated server, with at least 4 IPs (hopefully 10) and that can handle this type of activy? I'll be glad to sign up under an affiliate link if I can get a good answer.
I was wondering if VPS would be able to handle my double opt-in email marketing website?
If yes then what would be cheapest cost i.e provider that some of you would recommend based on previous experience and the best configuration that I need to go with?
I am looking at sending about 10,000 emails per hour with the list size about 50,000 emails.
I am not to keen with going dedicated due to not being tech savy to manage a full dedi server.
an email auto responder/email marketing service to my website owners. I will install it on a new domain and offer it as a side service to help market their websites.
I found one I think is good: [url]
Here is what I want, beyond the standard features:
1. ability to bill users monthly with authorize.net
2. ability for user to import pre-created follow up campaigns
(so I can provide some value with default marketing campaigns they can be up and running with)
Is there any other services that you reccomeend or know of, or ANY reviewing sites?
There are Dozens of these scripts available and I don't want to make the wrong move here,
My company wants to install an email marketing software that all our clients can use.
Unfortunately our own servers are windows based and do not support php and mysql which are needed for the email system. I would like some recommendations on good hosts where we can host the system and also allow a high volume of email to be sent every now and then by our clients who would be using the system.
how other people with large subscribers’ database (over 500K subscribers) manage their e-mail marketing needs.
We do have a number of different everyday newsletters and occasionally send surveys to customers (once in a couple of months). I do like the functionality and features that different e-mail marketing providers offer with their packages like Constant Contact, Icontact, etc.
However, considering the number of subscribers their services cost too high in our situation. Maybe there is a standalone software product which we can license and install to our servers and manage in house instead of buying a hosted application?
Quick update: I just found [url]. Does anyone has any experience working with them?
Not sure if it's the best forum to ask this, but it's related to hosting.
I have a Windows hosting for our business and send a newsletter twice a week to almost 10,000 subscribers through the hosting mail server.
I'd like to move to google apps so we can use the gmail interface. The problem is that I see Google apps has some limitations for sending mails (500 per user per day if I understood right, no matter if it's free or premier account).
Does anyone send a newsletter through Google apps? What can I do?
I have a server at RackSpace and they say that if a domain that I am hosting sends out spam emails then ALL the accounts/domains on the server will be blacklisted.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe just moved our website to a dedciated server and everything is up and running fine. We also send out about 5,000 emails on a monthly basis and the list continues to grow. We currently have one IP Address for our website and want to have a mail server also. We would just send the emails from our new server, but are affraid to use the same IP address because we read about people getting their IP blacklisted. We don't spam, these are all people who have requested our emails, but you never know and would rather be safe than sorry. If we want to create a dedciated mail server, do we just get a new IP address and use the same server or do we have to go with a completly new server? What programs are best for this type of email?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI 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?
I use GoDaddy for my shared host and it limits me to 999 emails a day through my server mailhost and I use interspire email marketing to send emails to my clients and other opt-in leads (I am 100% spam compliant) but I can't seem to get around the 999 a day. I am forced to use a program I had to get to send the rest (I send 10,000 a day) and the program uses my isp's direct send but the thing is I want to use Interspire as it automatically unsubscribes and keeps statistics...
View 13 Replies View RelatedHello all....I use an email blasting software for my clients and newsletter and this is what happened: I was at my mother's house and accidentally used the wrong server (I do my marketing on a diff. smtp server) and after I did that when I sent emails to my mother's email address (with the isp she is with) she would not receive my emails.
I called my domain's company and they said there was no problem on their end as I did tests and my emails went through. I called my mom's isp service and they said there was nothing wrong but to email this email address for "blocked" accounts and they never responded but the weird thing is when I send my mother email's, they go through if I send it from the "online backend" of godaddy rather through my MS Outlook.
To make things worse...I have a client who uses TimeWarner and he doesn't get my emails now either! Again...it works if I log-in on the backend but not through my outlook. Is there a port being blocked? I appreciate the responses as I don't know what to do and I need my main email address to send to clients.
Something not many people know when choosing a web host is the importance of choosing a host that will aid your marketing and your website’s niche. This can be very important if you are running an online store depending on the geographic region you are focusing on. So first let’s start with an explanation of why this all depends on who your site’s visitors will be.
Most internet connections are very fast but it still matters where the physical server is hosted in terms of speed. If I was starting an online store focusing on customers in Texas the site is going to server faster to people from Texas if it is in Texas. Similarly if you are building a site aimed at United Kingdom residents you don’t want the server to be in the United States or even Europe in some cases. By hosting in a location near your customer base you are speeding up their access time to the server. This might not seem like a big deal but in a number of studies the importance of a quick loading page can mean a big difference in the number of conversions. Or if you are hosting a game server ping time will obviously matter when you are shooting your next zombie.
In terms of marketing it is also important in the eyes of Google and other search engines. One of the many factors for knowing whether they should rank you in a country specific search engine is dependent on your IP’s location as well as your domain name ending. By using a host in the country your site is serving you is sending one more indication to Google of where you should be ranked.
We have had plenty of customers at UK2 who came to us from USA based hosting and after they started using our servers which are in the United Kingdom they found that conversions increased and they had lower shopping cart abandonment rates. Which when you are running an online store are two very key factors. This is also why we offer our customers dedicated server hosting in both the United Kingdom and USA, we want to be able to give them the best of both worlds.
I currently have a VPS account with a company that provided an email service, so I just would refer my hosting clients to them for email. I hosted the websites and just referred the email to them. I'm moving to a dedicated server with VolumeDrive, and I'd like to be able to provide email on my own to my clients.
I'd like to see how others do this. Do you host everything on one server, website + email, or do you host them on separate servers?
I currently have a domain on Server 1 (Linux, Apache, Ubuntu, Matrix control panel).
This server does not have any spam filter, so I have moved all the email accounts to Server 2 (Linux, Apache, Fedora Core, Plesk) which does have a brilliant spam filter; and have changed the DNS record for mail.domain.com to the IP address for Server 2.
Emails are being successfully received on Server 2.
On Server 1, when an email is sent through SMTP to an address at that domain, it does not send it to Server 2, it gets delivered to the hosting account for the domain on Server 1. So what I am guessing is happening is that Server 1 detects the domain has an account on the server, and instead of looking up the DNS info for that domain, just assumes it is on Server 1.
What I need to do, is force Server 1 to send email for that domain to Server 2. Is this possible, and if so, how can it be achieved? If more info about the server is required for a solution please let me know and I'll provide what I can.
The VPS have a main domain with IP for example : 127.0.0.1 and all other domain have the same ip.
Then I create a new domain, but with dedicated IP, for example : 127.0.02
When main domain or others domain send and email, he header is something like this :
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Delivered-To: [B]email-to-send@gmail.com[/B]
Received: by 10.68.89.69 with SMTP id bm5csp111327pbb;
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:35:28 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.194.82.35 with SMTP id f3mr33039278wjy.36.1394476527733;
[Code] ...
When the domain with dedicated IP send and email, the header is the same, but I need the header change the ip, for example this :
Code:
Delivered-To: [B]email-to-send@gmail.com[/B]
Received: by 10.68.89.69 with SMTP id bm5csp111327pbb;
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:35:28 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.194.82.35 with SMTP id f3mr33039278wjy.36.1394476527733;
[Code] .....
Why all domain whit shared or dedicated ip get (main-domain.com 127.0.0.1)
I have little problem with Certificate SSL
Have Plesk 12 in Centos...all working fine...but I have assigned dedicated IP for one domain, have request certificate (as admin) for this domain, purchase certificate in Comodo and installed...this certificate working fine and SSL Checker is good...problem is in domain how have assigned this certificate in menu SSL not appear...
I have only Default Certificate (certificate Plesk self signed) and Not Selected...but name for real certificate CA not appear...in Admin IP Address have all ok...IP for this domain and certificate (name of certificate installed) and website.... With this problem is normal? How configure SSL for email?
Recently I had some dealings with Register.com for a friend of mine who needed to gain access to the account of a deceased family member in order to manage the web site for her company. She was getting nowhere with them and found their support staff to be less than helpful in the retrieval of her domain name and account.
So she called me up, knowing I work in the industry, and asked me to see if I could get any information out of Register which might aid in the retrieval of her web site. I obliged, and opened up a live support chat with Register seeking information. After a little bit of prying--it seems this is kind of an odd request--the technician told me that they needed to send me an email with the information from the correct department, and couldn't give me an ETA, just "as soon as possible."
Now, having worked in the industry for years, to me this might as well have meant "we'll have an email to you sometime in the next year or so." Surprisingly it took only a day and a half and I got all of the information I needed, and my friend is on her way to retrieving her account.
Success, right? Not entirely.
This afternoon I wake up to find an email from Register.com, Inc. in my inbox with the subject "Get a FREE domain from Register.com." Now, let me put this into perspective. I have the last couple years of my email account easily accessible. A search for Register.com turned up several marketing emails (which I must not have noticed prior to this and just thought of it as normal stuff I get), and the correspondence with them regarding the retrieval of my friend's domain. All of the marketing emails for Register have arrived in my inbox since I contacted them regarding the issue.
This leads me to believe that I was only just recently added to their list, say, I don't know, two weeks ago maybe?
So apparently they think it's funny to sign me up for their marketing email list simply for talking to their support staff. I can find no clear statement on their web site, anywhere, that says collecting my email for support purposes earns me the privilege of receiving this junk mail from them. I certainly never checked a box anywhere saying "yes, send me this crap!"
While they do offer an unsubscribe button (and I certainly have done so now), I'm still extremely unhappy about this incident and I feel as if this is kind of (ok, it is) a shady way to market your product to anybody.
So now through this little trick, I'd like to say that Register.com has lost whatever potential they had for my business in the future, and I would simply like to say that you may take this into consideration when contacting them regarding anything, ever.
If someone can find damning evidence (preferably in a clear statement where someone would read it) saying that I opted in to receive this anywhere on their site, I will happily retract this statement, otherwise, their emails to me regarding their product remain unsolicited and therefore, spam.
What is the difference between Dedicated Virtual vs Regular Dedicated Server?
Also what are the pros and cons of going with Virtual?
I have a client who has his own hosting account, and wants to leave his e-mail on his own hosting account, but his website on my hosting account.
On his own hosting he has created a sub domain called shop, and pointed its A record to the IP address of my server. On my server I've setup his domain name, and created the sub domain shop. That all works fine.
The problem I have is that the site under the shop domain needs to send an e-mail to sales@hisdomain.com. Now my server thinks the main domain is setup on my server, so it sends the e-mail to itself.
I'm justing wondering how I can get the server to point the mails back to his hosting?
A previous host I've used said they had to add the domain as a remote domain on the server, then they had to make some changes to /etc/localdomains because I was getting errors trying to send mails to the address.
to move from shared windows hosting to Dedicated windows hosting. This will be our first dedicated server and experience with dealing it too.
Someone suggested me Rackspace. But they were charging premium rates 440 USD for entry level windows server.
I am currently using a shared hosting but due to increasing traffic and server load my existing host is not able to provide reliable services and I am planning to upgrade my hosting service.
While I was searching for Dedicated Servers, I learnt about Virtual Dedicated Servers but I am not very sure about their reliability? Are Virtual Dedicated Servers useful? My website current serves over 2500-3000 visitors a day resulting in 30,000 pageviews and I am expecting the traffic to grow by atleast 2 folds in the next few months as I start some PPC campaigns and Email Marketing for my website. Can a Virtual Dedicated Server cater such needs assuming my website to be more of less dynamic website written in php?
I have Plesk 11.5 (service provider mode) on a Windows 2008 server IIS7.Most of my sites are developed in .asp and therefore i use a custom 500-100.asp error page that check s the IP of the visitor then displays either a friendly error, or if its my IP a full error of what has happened (it also emails me the error). This allows me to debug pages easily whilst developing and to keep an eye on anyone trying SQL Injection hacks on my sites (as the error and email also have session variables and IP address).I dont have root access to the server as it is a Webfusion dedicated server.I have following the Plesk documentation -
1) Switch on custom errors for the subscription
2) Look in virtual directories and navigate to error documents
3) Find the error in question (500:100) and change it to point at either a file or URL
FILE - I had the data centre add in the 500-100.asp error page in to the virtual template so that my page is available in the list of virtual files - this didn't work but that maybe because its not a static page??
URL - when i add the path it says its incorrect, if i add a fully qualified address, it accepts it but it doesn't work.give me a specific example of the URL that can be entered relative to the root as the format in the documentation isn't accepted. The last step is to restart IIS which is also an issue as i cant seem to do this from the Plesk panel..It is as if it isn't catching the 500:100 error, and only catching the general 500 error??
This is the scenario, domain.com are setup on server1, however server2 also has the same profile of domain.com as we use ns3 and ns4 using domain.com. This works fine with the nameserver setup on server2.
However I encounter problems as the emails from server2 won't reach server1 as there are duplicate profile on server2.
My question is how do I setup the DNS in cpanel/whm from server2 so the emails from server2 will reach server1?
Server1 (www.domain.com)
ns1.domain.com
ns2.domain.com
Server2
ns3.domain.com
ns4.domain.com
i want to shift my domain to one server to another server and the problem is how can i shift my email accounts data to one server to another server.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a collocated server which I'd like to do some upgrades to. I'm having it shipped back to me so that I can do the upgrades myself. However, since I use this as my primary email server, I need help setting something up so I have no email downtime.
I have a cheap shared hosting account with DreamHost so one idea I have is to point the domain to their servers and handle things through there for a bit. This seems like the "brute force" way to do it though since I have to wait for DNS propagation and what not. Another idea was to use a service like DynDNS' MailHop BackupMX which does storage and forwarding. However, this service is kind of expensive ($30) considering I'm only going to use it a week or so.
What is the difference between a virtual private server and a dedicated server?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am going to be buying a dedicated server from kimsufi Most likely the 2XL Package.
My streamers will be using my server aswell, On weekends we will be running 3-4 streams at a time, weekdays 1-2 at a time.
Spreading all the streams out, at anyone time we will have 300 viewers.
I need to know your advice on this before i go spending money.
How do i convert my dedi into a flash media server, i need red5 or something, thats all i know so far. My streamers wil be streaming to server with FME, And i also want it coded so that my streams can only be embedded on my site.
Basically i dont have a clue where to start, how long would it take me to set up etc....
In addition, what kind of server do i need, windows / linux / traffic / burstable / standard etc..
