Server Limits changed...?

[britsenigma]

Server Limits
25% cpu and or memory for 3 minutes.
Combined 5% CPU & RAM over 24 hours.
250 email limit per domain per hour.
50 concurrent database connections at one time.
Apache threads to be open no longer then 999 seconds.
Php upload limit of 15 megs.
Max php session time of 300 seconds or less.
Limits are subject to change at anytime.

I believe it was 35% last time i looked and the upload limit has been nerfed?

[Leilani]

With the pathetic email limits per address of 250 over the months I have had to put up with staggering my newsletter outgoing, it's been an absolute nightmare!

This morning was the last flipping straw, when I adhered and only sending out 200 emails for the newsletter address, after an hour and a half I sent the last batch of 161 and they were all returned! With message saying exceeded 250 limit which was absolute crap!

I can't resend them via my newsletter script so have to manually cut and paste all the bounced emails addresses...I am so fed up with this stupid unreasonable limit...not asking for 1000 plus limit just a reasonable amount which was promised months ago but still hasn't come into being!

[zanass]

Originally Posted by Leilani

With the pathetic email limits per address of 250 over the months I have had to put up with staggering my newsletter outgoing, it's been an absolute nightmare!

This morning was the last flipping straw, when I adhered and only sending out 200 emails for the newsletter address, after an hour and a half I sent the last batch of 161 and they were all returned! With message saying exceeded 250 limit which was absolute crap!

I can't resend them via my newsletter script so have to manually cut and paste all the bounced emails addresses...I am so fed up with this stupid unreasonable limit...not asking for 1000 plus limit just a reasonable amount which was promised months ago but still hasn't come into being!

Hello

This issue is not an H9 issue, it is the way you are sending your emails.
I do not know what you use to send out these emails but what is happening is...just because you send out 200 emails and wait an hours does not mean you are only sending out 200 an hour, because those 200 emails are being send out in the first 5 minutes or so and these mail servers are seeing this as 10,000 an hour and kicking them back. You need a emailer that spreads out those 200 emails over an hour this is throttling

What you have to use is an app called Pommo Main Page - . .. poMMo .. . This is the best free emailer I have found, go download this and try it, you will need to use Firefox to set up the config, that is the only issue I had found, Pommo works fantastic.

Hope this helps
Greg V

[Leilani]

Hi Greg
Thanks for the response, I have been using mailmachinepro for the last few years with no problems, it's only in the last few months when I changed from One and One to my own Hostnine server that I started getting the problems with the email limit. The first month was a nightmare as I didn't know there was a limit, then I learnt to send out manually 200 in an hour. It was set to send out 100 in 5 mins for months, I would manually send out 100 then another 100 which and leave it for an hour and send out the remaining. Fine

The only difference this month was that I changed it to 200 in 10 mins so I didn't have to sit there and click the button again. Well first lot went off just dandy...second batch well as you saw I was not happy...when I am told 250 emails is the limit per hour, how am I supposed to know the server gets all confused and thinks I am going to be sending out thousands and thousands in the remaining part of the day? Not everybody is into knowing the in and outs of the server set up and I certainly don't want to know! Just want to get my newsletter out smoothly as possible.

On top of all this I was starting to get an unusually large amount of bounces back from the likes of Yahoo, Hotmail and my all time fav AOL and last month they told me that they had changed the email servers IP address to try and stop this...well this month no bouncing back from the first two, result! AOL all have came back, I can only assume it's because people are lazy they sign up to a newsletter and click spam rather than unsubscribe...so have spent more time filling out AOL forms to get me white listed...sheesh why do I bother?

Anyway, I will have a look at this freebie thanks for the but it's all doing my head in and a blinking waste of time and seriously considering giving up on a newsletter totally, because it's like I am fighting my way through treacle with hosting companies...not a good sign.

Anyway thanks for the help

[josephp]

If you want to avoid the server limitations, get VPS or Dedicated Server so you can do whatever you want.

[idwebca]

Originally Posted by Leilani

Hi Greg
Thanks for the response, I have been using mailmachinepro for the last few years with no problems, it's only in the last few months when I changed from One and One to my own Hostnine server that I started getting the problems with the email limit. The first month was a nightmare as I didn't know there was a limit, then I learnt to send out manually 200 in an hour. It was set to send out 100 in 5 mins for months, I would manually send out 100 then another 100 which and leave it for an hour and send out the remaining. Fine

The only difference this month was that I changed it to 200 in 10 mins so I didn't have to sit there and click the button again. Well first lot went off just dandy...second batch well as you saw I was not happy...when I am told 250 emails is the limit per hour, how am I supposed to know the server gets all confused and thinks I am going to be sending out thousands and thousands in the remaining part of the day? Not everybody is into knowing the in and outs of the server set up and I certainly don't want to know! Just want to get my newsletter out smoothly as possible.

On top of all this I was starting to get an unusually large amount of bounces back from the likes of Yahoo, Hotmail and my all time fav AOL and last month they told me that they had changed the email servers IP address to try and stop this...well this month no bouncing back from the first two, result! AOL all have came back, I can only assume it's because people are lazy they sign up to a newsletter and click spam rather than unsubscribe...so have spent more time filling out AOL forms to get me white listed...sheesh why do I bother?

Anyway, I will have a look at this freebie thanks for the but it's all doing my head in and a blinking waste of time and seriously considering giving up on a newsletter totally, because it's like I am fighting my way through treacle with hosting companies...not a good sign.

Anyway thanks for the help

Perhaps you can check this site out.. this is what we use Email Marketing Solutions from Constant Contact
and it wont affect h9 mail servers