RE: [epub] Mailing Limitations by Web Hosts?

["Lee Benson" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Lee Benson" <lee@cyberprosper.com>

Hi Thomas,

I can sympathize with your problem there buddy.
I'm afraid the obvious had to happen - I changed web hosts.

I run my newsletter from a small Perl script that I
created. I run it from Telnet as a background process.
It's pretty simple - it just takes a look at the subscribers.txt
file, individually emails each of the users with the
newsletter, and replaces $EMAIL in the message with
their email address.

The problem with my old host is that they had an
annoying time limit on Telnet scripts. I could email
around 300-400 people, then ZAP, my background process
was disabled. And the worse thing is I couldn't
recover where I left off. Not good, not good at all.

Now I'm with a great web hosting company.
Web-Sharx at http://www.web-sharx.net - they have
NO time limits on scripts, so you can send as many
emails as you wish without losing performance.

The server is a Dual-PIII 500, has over 768mb ram
and a super-fast OC-12 connection (soon to be
upgraded to OC-48)... It's going to take a monster
script to slow this baby down, so the process of
simply emailing to your subscribers won't be affected
whatsoever.

(I don't want this to sound like an advert, but
if you order from them tell them Lee sent you and
you'll get a special discount).

Anyway, the moral of this little story is don't
let your web host slow you down. You don't have
to put up with it, because you can get a quality
web host for pennies a day.

It might sound like a big step changing web hosts,
but pick a quality company and they'll help you
get set-up the same day.

For your information, Web-Sharx set-up my account
the same day so I was able to upload all of my files
before InterNic had even transferred the domain.

And Thomas, I know EXACTLY what you mean when you
say it feels like no-one is listening to your
questions and complaints... Pick a web-host that's
in tune with your own needs.

I chose Web-Sharx because the owner, Joe, is
also an active Internet marketer who I speak with
personally over ICQ - He understands the needs of
the customer, and will do more than enough to meet
those needs. Don't let some over-sized, under-supported
company tell you what you need - let THEM know what YOU need.

I hope you manage to sort your problem.
Keep us informed on your progress.

Sincerely,

Lee Benson, founder of CyberProsper.
mailto:lee@cyberprosper.com
ICQ # 6232383

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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Bihl [mailto:tbihl@bizjunction.com]
Sent: 13 November 1999 03:54
To: epub@onelist.com
Subject: [epub] Mailing Limitations by Web Hosts?


From: "Thomas Bihl" <tbihl@bizjunction.com>

Hi All, 

It's been a while since I've posted but I have a question for
other publishers.  I know that some of you use lists like 
One-List, ListBot, etc. and some send  your list out yourself.

To the folks who send the list themselves,  do you use your
domain to mail the newsletters or your local ISP?

I have been mailing my newsletter through my domain with
an email client that can personalize the message and
all of a sudden I can only get 10 to 12 newsletters out at 
a time.  I have been sending my newsletter out for over a
year now and until the last two weeks have had no 
problem.  When I advised the my hosting company I 
received the following answer.

> I have gotten a bit more info on what happens with the popauth.db.
> Sendmail rebuilds this file every five minutes, so if you have a lot
> of messages (or some really big messages) and you send out when
> sendmail does it's thing you'll see these errors.
> 
> There are several reasons why we don't like users sending out really
> large mass mailings, first and foremost is the fact that it eats up
> server bandwidth and resources when so many messages are pushed out at
> one time. Second is that errors like this are bound to happen, we need
> to keep the popauth database updated frequently to prevent spammers
> from using/abusing our systems.

Now, I agree with security to protect against spamming, but
this host states a gig a day can be used and I haven't come
close.  I also advised them this had changed in the last two 
weeks yet that is not addressed.  Do you feel sometimes 
that no one is listening to or reading your questions or
complaints?

Is anyone else have similar problems - any suggestions?
I realize the obvious - change hosts.

Thomas Bihl
http://www.bizjunction.com 
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