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Allen S
Allen S

Reputation: 3549

Sending large number of emails from your server

Background: I run a site which is basically free. It has a sizeable number of email subscribers but because currently there's no pricing model I cannot afford to use Mailchimp to overcome their 2K subscriber limit.

I'm thinking to send it out myself. If I've got an array of ~12000 emails and I use PHP to send out the newsletter, from the server what will the impact be on the server? Could response time for the actual site users (seeing as the website is hosted on the same server) be impacted? Could the server crash? How long might this task take approximately?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 228

Answers (1)

user3587394
user3587394

Reputation: 11

in my experience, PHP list would be your best option for this as it's the most popular open source email managment system. Depending on your host, they may have limits on the number of outgoing emails that you send so it's best to check with them first and then configure it so that it is inline with their rules. It takes some configuring, but once you're up and running, it's very easy to use.

In saying that - after managing much more sizeable lists for a good 5-6 years, I've now migrated them all over to Campaign Monitor.

All in all, PHP List will definitely do what you need.

Upvotes: 1

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