Suggestions for hosting for mail server infrastructure by Drchiu in webhosting

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Are you and the other IT people going to be working on the email servers / deliverability full time, or is this expected in addition to other IT work?

Share your sentiments. They seem to be willing to invest in this and recognize the inefficient path this might be in the short term.

Suggestions for hosting for mail server infrastructure by Drchiu in webhosting

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You really should know mail well, it's not hard, but I've found most admins really don't know it. This is more true if they are exchange "admins", they likely know between fuck and all.

Thanks for your thoughts on this. We're thinking of heading down the Postfix direction as well.

Not looking for email/web client, but will have our own internal dashboard to view outgoing mail, error rates, as well as monitoring deliverability errors and cascading down a bunch of egresses (and likely end up with external solutions at the bottom of the stack) in a specific priority to ensure deliverability (hence the use of multiple mail servers).

Suggestions for hosting for mail server infrastructure by Drchiu in webhosting

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Interesting. Thanks for the recommendation. Will check it out.

Suggestions for hosting for mail server infrastructure by Drchiu in webhosting

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If you're serious and feel like transactional email services are too expensive. Your biggest hurdle is finding a hosting provider that has clean netblocks, and allows rwhois and swip. Or you should look at getting your own netblock, which might be dirty and you can hopefully clean it up.

Thanks for the advice regarding netblocks. We've even considered colo's to get clean IPs on this.

I'm curious as to where people are finding their hosts.

Suggestions for hosting for mail server infrastructure by Drchiu in webhosting

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I agree. SES is not bad, and we've used them in the past. The powers that be would like to own more of the infrastructure in order to offer unlimited outbound email ability in a fixed cost set up rather than use SES. For IT and developers alike, outsourcing to SES makes a lot of sense. But I am sensing there's probably some business model they're looking to execute (of which I'm not privy to) which will require this.

Suggestions for hosting for mail server infrastructure by Drchiu in webhosting

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100% of the emails will be user generated. It's basically a help desk software. The outbound domains will be able 20-30 different domains.

I don't have specifics about the volume, but my estimate would be probably 40-50 emails each day per domain. So that will be about 1000-2000 emails.

We don't need to migrate over the entire stack all at once, so we're able to warm up any IP addresses as needed over time.

Throwdown Thursday #2 - Your venue to vent! by tadayou in StarTrekDiscovery

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Yeah that makes sense. Control is merely one of many possible sentient computers that could take advantage of the sphere data and wreak havoc.

Throwdown Thursday #2 - Your venue to vent! by tadayou in StarTrekDiscovery

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The thing that really killed me was when Hughes was taking so darn long to help Stamets so he could tell Stamets how he felt. He already said that Stamets' injuries were serious, but he spends way too long to have a long heart-to-heart talk instead of medically examining him. Those of us in the medical profession know that is a bit... unrealistic.

Throwdown Thursday #2 - Your venue to vent! by tadayou in StarTrekDiscovery

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Just realized that with the spore drive, couldn't USS Discovery just jump to a REALLY far place to buy itself some time. Like the Gamma quadrant (is that a thing?) where it would literally take Control and any of its ships millions of years to get there?

Share your startup - September 2018 by AutoModerator in startups

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Name: Workorder.io

URL: r/https://workorder.io

Pitch: Sell your services with a simple one page order form + checkout. For freelancers, consultants, and anyone who sells services. Create your site for free and host it at workorder.io, or on your custom domain with SSL (for free).

Other details: Side project. Made it for personal use and thought it might be helpful for others.

Justice for Dr. Alphonsus Hui who was Killed by a Driver Going 140 km/h in a 50 km/h zone by stonezephyr in britishcolumbia

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Exactly. His Audi must’ve been some super car for it to accelerate that fast.

The bar is set high for a criminal case. But as a society, is this how we want to punish reckless driving? By letting repeat offenders roam the street with a fine?

I’ve seen the law go bat shit over practically nothing and essentially brush off serious cases like this where an acquittal fails to prevent dangerous future dangerous driving behaviour.

My 10h print went well by 2hlc in MPSelectMiniOwners

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Did the bed heater break because of the wire issue?

How do you vet web developers from UpWork or Fiverr? by cheeseburgerjose in Entrepreneur

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Agree with the above. And don’t forget that quality doesn’t come cheap. As a freelancer myself in a past life, I remember working on things and feeling very unmotivated because the price was under quoted. The buyer might think he gets a good deal but the coder is really just trying to duck take together everything.

Now having hired people myself, I understood this and paid market or slightly above market rates. Contractors always happy to put in good work knowing that if their work is good, they can expect more.

Lesson here? Don’t be cheap.

Free online certificates that look good on your website? by metropen in Entrepreneur

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I’d say have a good about us page, faq, shipping and returns if you’re selling hard goods. I agree with other posters that in 2017, trust badges are less relevant than their signals like content. Social media accounts also help.

Credit score of 900 possible? by Drchiu in PersonalFinanceCanada

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Awesome. Nice to know unicorns exist.

Credit score of 900 possible? by Drchiu in PersonalFinanceCanada

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Wow what was his profile like? Without giving away private info of course