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inexpensive host for newsletter?

by djtrillian
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I work for a small company and over the last 10 years we have built up a fairly large email list of customers and subscribers to our monthly newsletter. When we send the newsletter it is not laden with ads it is informational in nature and is for the purpose of building trust and keeping contact with our subscribers.

The list currently stands at about 40,000 and we send it via the mailservers on one of our webhosts. Most of the time this is trouble free but now and then they are down for various reasons ('just not a very reliable hosting company really).

None of our other web hosts allow anywhere near enough emails via their mailservers. But we simply cannot justify the expense of something like Aweber, especially in the current economic climate here in the UK.

So I am looking for hosts that have more generous email allowances and / or other affordable ways to send our newsletter.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lothar Evers
    Originally Posted by djtrillian View Post

    I work for a small company and over the last 10 years we have built up a fairly large email list of customers and subscribers to our monthly newsletter. When we send the newsletter it is not laden with ads it is informational in nature and is for the purpose of building trust and keeping contact with our subscribers.

    The list currently stands at about 40,000 and we send it via the mailservers http://www.warriorforum.com/images/smilies/cool.gifon one of our webhosts. Most of the time this is trouble free but now and then they are down for various reasons ('just not a very reliable hosting company really).

    None of our other web hosts allow anywhere near enough emails via their mailservers. But we simply cannot justify the expense of something like Aweber, especially in the current economic climate here in the UK.

    So I am looking for hosts that have more generous email allowances and / or other affordable ways to send our newsletter.
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    • Profile picture of the author theemperor
      djtrillian ...

      Ignore the "see my sig" kind of advice, obviously that poster wants an affiliate commission.

      Read this instead:....

      There are some services that offer a SMTP service for large lists. SMTP is the technical name for an email service without an interface. So it is different to getresponse and aweber in that you need to use your own client/software. But it is cheaper and more flexible.

      By using an SMTP service you can do the bulk mailings the same way as you do now, but changing a few settings.

      If you use outlook mail merge for example this will be easy - just change the account settings to the new SMTP service. If you use a web-based autoresponder it should be easy also by updating the settings page.

      Here is an example of a company (not used them they are just number one in Google): http://www. authsmtp. com/auth-smtp/pricing.html

      Hope this helps...
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      • Profile picture of the author djtrillian
        Thanks for the suggestions. I have looked at a number of SMTP services and unfortunately they are still quite expensive (ranging right up to and beyond the cost of Aweber).


        Originally Posted by theemperor View Post

        djtrillian ...

        Ignore the "see my sig" kind of advice, obviously that poster wants an affiliate commission.

        Read this instead:....

        There are some services that offer a SMTP service for large lists. SMTP is the technical name for an email service without an interface. So it is different to getresponse and aweber in that you need to use your own client/software. But it is cheaper and more flexible.

        By using an SMTP service you can do the bulk mailings the same way as you do now, but changing a few settings.

        If you use outlook mail merge for example this will be easy - just change the account settings to the new SMTP service. If you use a web-based autoresponder it should be easy also by updating the settings page.

        Here is an example of a company (not used them they are just number one in Google):

        Hope this helps...
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        • Profile picture of the author CrhisD
          Originally Posted by djtrillian View Post

          Thanks for the suggestions. I have looked at a number of SMTP services and unfortunately they are still quite expensive (ranging right up to and beyond the cost of Aweber).
          An alternative would be installing an autoresponder like Infinite Responder or Parabots on shared hosting and doing the mailing yourself. I don't suppose the recipients would be complaining about an informational message they double-opted in to?
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    You can mail 40k people from a windows desktop using the right applications.

    If the list is solid and you won't get complaints, your business ISP account should allow this volume.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarketingVet09
    you can get a VPS with hostgator, they offer unlimited email sending as long as it's a double opt in list... You can use php list for free to send them

    I would not do something like this from desktop, just my suggestion
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  • Profile picture of the author noble
    40K is a fairly large list so you may run into issues mailing yourself from a VPS that you get if the list is not really solid (if some of these people complain) unless you are pretty advanced in mailing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Craig Brower
    Hello,

    I am not sure what your budget may be, but there is also profollow.com or automateyourlist.com

    The price are as follows for both

    19.95 a month for 10K emails
    9.95 each additional 10K

    So it looks like with your list of 40K plus it would be about $50-60 a month, which is a heck of a lot less than aweber and others for that sized list.

    Don't know if this will help you, but thought I would throw that out there for ya.
    Craig
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  • Profile picture of the author Owen Smith
    Use GWA Autoresponder, pay once and use your existing VPS to run the services, or purchase shared hosting to just run the service, will cost around $4 monthly! As many emails as you like, well until you hit hosting restrictions, which is 500/hour with hostgator. Thats 12000 a day, with one shared hosting account.

    Regards
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