How to send mail to 16K users

First time when I see someone ready to send manual 16k emails! I use MailPoet.
 
best external smtps can be mandrill / amazone SES. while you can hire your own IPs to setup PowerMTA / interspire / phplist softwares and send. Its obvios mandrill will produce more results but suspend account if they get too many complaints

Hi,
I have 16k of users in my amember user lists, I try to send the emails via amember, but is just to bad and get issues with the hosting for sending to many emails quickly
I have check getresponse but $145/month for 25k of users seems very expensive and normally all those autoresponders require that we send a email first to opt in

Looking for a good solution to send some news/updates to my users

Thanks
 
Checkout TheSlug's posts about using TEAR software. I can scrape, clean, and email your leads all in one.
 
The best way to send such amount of email thought third party e-mailer services. MailChimp and ConstanctContact good for email sending
 
I'm using interspire + amazon SES. Premium cheap services really.
 
Use this strategy that have worked for me.

Get a primary dedicated server at around $35, install WHM/Cpanel to it. You can install trial version if your budget is tight to save money. Alternatively you can directadmin which is available free. Just get hosting provider to install for you.
Set RDNS and DNS to the server. Name this as primary server.
Set domain name as xyz.com
Install Interspire or other mailing script (need help on this let me know).

Next get a couple of Linux VPS hosting plan which allow SMTP, look on BHW, there are many. Usually cost around $6-$12. Setup domain as smail1.xyz.com (shared server 1), smail2.xyz.com (shared server 2), etc. Hope you get what I mean here. Setup about 5 different server. Each server should allow you to send 100-200 emails per hour. Remember to throttle the sending speed per server.

Then set in your primary server all the above delivery mail server. The primary server will be use to handle feedback and bounces. This is why we are using dedi server here.

5 x VPS hosting= $30 - $60 = 1,000 emails per hour. 24 hours = 24,000 emails per day. If you have multiple IPs, then setup on the VPS to increase sending capability
1 x Dedi = $35

Total cost between $65 - $95 monthly

If you noticed that soft bounce rate rises then you should change the VPS and setup with new domain. Spamahaus would blacklist domain and IP. But with the above setup, your main TLD is not blacklisted so you can still change your server.

Can't really type too much here, in case i miss out on something or you have question, feel free to ask.

Take note that public emails like Gmail and hotmail will still put your email in the junk folder by default unless receiver whitelist you.
 
Create a topic in [Want to hire] section. There are a lot of people, who has all necessary software. It would be much cheaper and easier for you..
A cleaver thought with a helpful plan.
 
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