Recent content by ActorMike

I started our forum in 2001. A couple young guys started a competing site and sold it to an older guy for 1500.00. 20 years later he's still using VB and clueless. Spammers were so bad he had to close registration for a year lol. Then it got hacked and they started sending scam email promoting...

I started using VB in 2003. Unfortunately, it got bought out by a big crap company who ran it into the ground many years ago. Fortunately, XF was formed and we switched to that. Our forum dominates, thanks to these folks. My 2 cents on VB- https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5519cc490000ff0002d93403

The point was, that clicking on malicious links is so bad, employers are now sending out fake ones to test employees. Never click on a bad link.

This is not a new scam, this kind of stuff has been going on for years and even deceptively worded messages trying to trick people to switch registrars similar to the old days and long distance carriers via mail. You should not be clicking on suspicious links either. Large companies actually...

Anyone else have a 90 Message per second sending limit? They escalated my ticket to US support and their findings were the same as mine. Always good when a company admits fault and now I have access to an account that sends at 90 messages per second as a backup. It's still disturbing they have...

I own and operate this forum for over 22 years and have self-hosted it and get the abuse complaints from Yahoo/AOL/Verizon/Microsfot etc. How can we have an issue when we are not even sending emails via Amazon SES in the past week? I had already pulled the plug on them after they didn't respond...

Three weeks ago I tried to get a limit increase for Amazon and support said they would reply in 2-3 days. Never heard back so responded to the ticket 3 days ago. On December 1, 2023 at 5:29:17 AM the support team flagged our account for spam and did a "manual review" stating, In general, we...

This was already posted in this thread. Start reading on post #1. Post in thread 'Configure Amazon SES in our Xenforo forum' https://xenforo.com/community/threads/configure-amazon-ses-in-our-xenforo-forum.205540/post-1628329

If you read the thread, someone asked me where I got my server and I replied.

All that is irrelevant. It's a fact we sent out 100,000k+ emails a month with no issues. We have no issues with our five IP addresses or email delivery issues, if we did, they would have just given us other ones. That's the entire point of having your own IP address, it doesn't matter what...

It's not that expensive to have a dedicated server, but I guess that is subjective. Our server has 5 IP addresses and is 70.00/mo. See- See- https://bit.ly/DediOutlet As far as the clean IP addresses, I've never had a provider that did not have clean IP addresses to start with, all you may have...

What type of forum?

It's really about knowledge, not resources; just like folks set up their own website and forum, if you know how to set up your own server, it's not hard to do it yourself. I will let everyone know how they respond to my latest increase request. Basically, I gave them an ultimatum, which makes...

The real question is, why should it be throttled starting at 14 messages per second and you have to beg to get 25? When I send the messages out on our server with our own mail server ,the messages blast out in no time. I noticed the Amazon IP is blacklisted on HOSTKARMA-BLACK AND SORBS-RECENT...

How did you get them to change it to 50 emails per second? I requested an increase and at first they refused, then I told them, we'll just use our own email server then, which we've used for over 20 years. Then they said we will do 25 emails per second. We sent our email to members each week to...