Interspire as a self hosted autoresponder solution for multiple businesses

by gesman
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I recently left hosted AR and took my list with it (which saved me about $1000 already to say at least).
Got ArpReach which I regret because of number of awkward issues i having with it.
Interspire seems to be the next recommended, albeit much pricier alternative.

Questions:

1.
I rent dedicated server and looking at Interspire + (Mailgun or Mandrill or Sendgrid). I currently use Sendgrid ($1/10,000 emails plan) although it seems to be the last in people's preferred choices. Which one of SMTP platforms would you recommend?

2.
Are there any valuable alternatives to Interspire worth evaluating?

3.
Question about Interspire: I own few different online businesses and my wife owns dog merchandise store.
Can Interspire be configured so each list would function independently?
In other words I want to avoid global "{BUSINESS} = Dog Things" and have every list include: "Thank for you for joining Dog Things" type of stuff.

I want every list's settings to be configured totally independently and not share any variables.
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve B
        Gesman,

        Here's another alternative to check out:

        SMTP

        I've heard good things about SendGrid but don't have any personal experience with them.

        I believe Interspire can be configured to treat multiple lists independent of one another but I would certainly ask their support team to verify that before signing up. I have been a customer at Interspire for years and their support has always been great for what I've needed.

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        • Profile picture of the author gesman
          Originally Posted by Steve B View Post

          Gesman,

          Here's another alternative to check out:

          SMTP

          I've heard good things about SendGrid but don't have any personal experience with them.

          I believe Interspire can be configured to treat multiple lists independent of one another but I would certainly ask their support team to verify that before signing up. I have been a customer at Interspire for years and their support has always been great for what I've needed.

          Steve
          Thanks, Steve!
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  • Profile picture of the author azsno
    I've been using Interspire since 2008, not the greatest solution for delivery.....I've tried using MailJet and SMTP.com with Interspire and SMTP.com gets better delivery rates BUT they're still low...

    My list is around 31K and I only get between a 2-3% open rate....

    I finally picked up Rapid Mailer, run it on my WordPress site using the same list with SMTP.com and my open rate is around 20-30%....

    Hope this helps....

    ~AzSno...
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    • Profile picture of the author bobrichards
      do a search Google search on Rapid Mailer, recommended by above poster
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