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Ask HN: Suggestions for Comercial Email Service
I will be sending password resets, invoice reminders and that sort of thing. I will not be doing mass marketing or anything like that. I am primarily interested in ease of use (standard smtp), cost and reliability.
I am thinking of using sendgrid.com for this. Does anyone have any experience with them or better suggestions?
- new_guy 7y agoWhy not just use your servers own mail service? A service like sendgrid or mailchimp is way overkill for such a simple usecase. Plus it costs nothing.
- ayush--s 7y agodid you mean hosting a DIY mail server? that's one of the tougher setups I've done, and the result was mail going to spam folder because I couldn't get DKIM right. OP is definitely better off using a service.
- ayush--s 7y agoI think you might be able to fit your needs in free tier of mailchimp/sendgrid itself. If not, AWS SES is the most cost effective way.
- ilovetux 7y agoThank you. I believe that the free tier of sendgrid will definitely get me started. Hopefully I will scale past their free tier eventually, but that would be a good problem to have. Do you happen to have any experience from sendgrid or similar service? I'm curious about support, reliability and pricing compared to them and their competitors.