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Deliverability and trust is everything. I don't run a huge website, but am sending ~50k transactional emails per month and am using Mailgun for this, and with

by buro9 11y ago

Deliverability and trust is everything. I don't run a huge website, but am sending ~50k transactional emails per month and am using Mailgun for this, and with the dedicated IP (which was required to overcome deliverability issues we had) ~it's $75 per month. That's quite a lot of cost for the email I send. I've actually thought about splitting my email into several buckets and using different providers and price points depending on how much I value it. * Password resets and nopassword login emails to go through the costliest and with the highest deliverability guarantee * Notifications to go through some mid-tier provider that is cheap and has acceptability (maybe Amazon SES?) That said... this is a premature optimization for me, the cost of the IP address for the highest deliverability means that I may as well pump all my email through that until such a time that I'm sending ~500k per month when it will start being more cost effective to split it out.

hayksaakian 11y ago
I'm curious what's your project?
- buro9 11y ago
  Failed startup: https://microco.sm/ https://microco.sm/ Runs: https://www.lfgss.com/ https://www.lfgss.com/ http://forum.islington.cc/ http://forum.islington.cc/ forum.raphacycling.club http://forum.espruino.com/ http://forum.espruino.com/ and lots of other forums. Basically an alternative to Discourse, phpBB, vBulletin, etc. With some differences to make it simpler, cleaner, mobile friendly, etc.
  - OmarZiara 11y ago
    Hello buro9 I believe you're one of the co-founders. Are you open to share more of your plan for your startup? I've gone through your article @medium and I really got a lot of useful tips out of it. We are working on a similar startup and we've gone quite a distance. Whether we believe we crossed the hard period or not, we really need to learn from every possible experience that can help us in our journey.
    - buro9 11y ago
      My email is in my profile.

by buro9 11y ago

hayksaakian 11y ago

I'm curious what's your project?

buro9 11y ago
Failed startup: https://microco.sm/ https://microco.sm/ Runs: https://www.lfgss.com/ https://www.lfgss.com/ http://forum.islington.cc/ http://forum.islington.cc/ forum.raphacycling.club http://forum.espruino.com/ http://forum.espruino.com/ and lots of other forums. Basically an alternative to Discourse, phpBB, vBulletin, etc. With some differences to make it simpler, cleaner, mobile friendly, etc.
- OmarZiara 11y ago
  Hello buro9 I believe you're one of the co-founders. Are you open to share more of your plan for your startup? I've gone through your article @medium and I really got a lot of useful tips out of it. We are working on a similar startup and we've gone quite a distance. Whether we believe we crossed the hard period or not, we really need to learn from every possible experience that can help us in our journey.
  - buro9 11y ago
    My email is in my profile.