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And then, it is not even your own solution, but AWS SES. I have been running mail servers for 20+ years, sending volumes that would have made me multiple time

And then, it is not even your own solution, but AWS SES. I have been running mail servers for 20+ years, sending volumes that would have made me multiple times bancrupt if I was doing it via Mailchimp or SES.

yread 5y ago
AWS SES is ~1$/10,000 emails. Are you the biggest spammer or just very very poor? Also, 20 years ago running your email server was way easier than now
- bpodgursky 5y ago
  At a previous job, all API errors were emailed to internal email lists. The dev monitoring the API health kept track of system health by looking at the number of unread messages in his inbox. If the number of unread messages went up by < 100,000 in a day, the API was doing fine. If there were a couple million new messages, it means we were having problems. So... I can definitely see how this is plausible, if not uh, "best practice".
  - hpkuarg 5y ago
    This pains me physically to read, haha.
  - aitchnyu 5y ago
    We used this Django feature as a poor man's Sentry years back.
- OJFord 5y ago
  Not to mention the free tier.
throwaway3699 5y ago
You could email everyone on Earth for less than the salary of an engineer with SES.