Sending around 50k newsletter emails on Tuesdays (1 forum sends 41k+ another 8k+)..
SES rejected us. We are using our own SMTP VPSs (also for costs)
an over-kill dedicated server at Hetzner (we are still playing in trying to understand our/Postal bottlenecks)
VPSs created using Virtualizor...
.. I don't anything about how they operate their business, and don't have opinion about them.
What I am sure of - they have a wealth of experience both good and painful. Super interested in this.
.. I own a niche forum (close to my heart - a forum for Latvian webmasters) that I bought in 2015...
I would appreciate an introduction to a VerticalScope team member. .. really curious how they run their forums. Do they attend any events? I’d probably fly halfway around the world to meet them at a business event or two.
It’s easy to criticize someone, and even easier to mismanage a forum...
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Latvian language translation for Xenforo 2.30 - Latvian language translation for Xenforo 2.30
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Years ago, I acquired the closed-down ibf.lv (an internet business forum for Latvians). After migrating it to BBpress (which wasn't a smart move) and cleaning up the user database, I relaunched the forum - never got any traction.
Now, I'm planning to relaunch this forum (long ago = leader in...
You need to be careful with Contabo. They were heavily used by email marketers and most of their IP blocks are blacklisted (not just individual addresses > the whole blocks). >> this means > you will need a 3rd party smtp server for sending your system emails for these to get delivered to...
.. manually removed around 70k users by identifying domains that are used for creating bulk user accounts + removing users that have a following pattern in their email address: (dot)character(dot)
for a new webmasters, more details on the last one:
example of the last one...