Self-Host All the Things?
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Self-Host All the Things?
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#2Self hosting is great , except it's incredibly frustrating to get a good pipe to your home that has decent upload speeds. Even "business class " is downright awful. Thankfully this is slowly changing but not fast enough!
Looking to run my own next cloud instance soon.
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#3> Email newsletter tools: Old or new, your pick
Am I wrong to think that most businesses/people pay for Mailchimp because getting your e-mail actually delivered into the inboxes of your target audience/customers is non-trivial? aka, you're going to end up in "spam" otherwise?
I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I would love to learn if I'm wrong though.
This article could've talked about DataDog vs Jaeger/ELK stack I think for tracing/logs.
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#4Self hosting is great , except it's incredibly frustrating to get a good pipe to your home that has decent upload speeds. Even "business class " is downright awful. Thankfully this is slowly changing but not fast enough! Looking to run my own next cloud instance soon.
If you have high bandwidth requirements, you can self-host on a VPS from the many possible providers. I personally have a hybrid setup with my high storage and resource intensive apps such as Nextcloud hosted on a server at home but host services that need high bandwidth, no NAT restrictions, and different security on a VPS. Yes I pay a small subscription to the VPS provider, but it is relatively small.
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#5Cal.com’s issues have less to do with the stack and more that it just isn’t setup for self hosting , if you try to get it up and running you’ll notice you get quite a few errors where it tries to hit proprietary code and it crashes strangely every few hours. Also uses up an incredulous amount of resources for such a simple service.
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#6> Email newsletter tools: Old or new, your pick Am I wrong to think that most businesses/people pay for Mailchimp because getting your e-mail actually delivered into the inboxes of your target audience/customers is non-trivial? aka, you're going to end up in "spam" otherwise? I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I woul…
> I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I would love to learn if I'm wrong though.
You can do this, I have done this, but honestly it's annoyingly painful and you're always one bad ad campaign away from being nuked to death by people marking your emails as spam.
There's a lot of rules to follow and even when you follow them you need to ensure that you start emailing a low volume for each new sending IP until the reputation grows over time.
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#7Self hosting is great , except it's incredibly frustrating to get a good pipe to your home that has decent upload speeds. Even "business class " is downright awful. Thankfully this is slowly changing but not fast enough! Looking to run my own next cloud instance soon.
I guess that depends on where you live, I have almost the same upload vs download speed on my ISP Bahnhof in Sweden.
Proof: https://www.speedtest.net/result/14437484691.png
I am always worried about someone deciding to DDoS me though.
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#8https://mailcoach.app/ is another awesome self hosted Mailchimp alternative, especially when you’re developing Laravel applications.
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#9> Email newsletter tools: Old or new, your pick Am I wrong to think that most businesses/people pay for Mailchimp because getting your e-mail actually delivered into the inboxes of your target audience/customers is non-trivial? aka, you're going to end up in "spam" otherwise? I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I woul…
You go with Mailchimp (or equivalent) for newsletters because they give you the subscription form, handle email verification, unsubscriptions, GDPR mentions everywhere, provide useful stats and notifications, segmentation and targeting… Getting email delivered is indeed really hard, especially if you send thousands of emails, but building all these other features is insanely time consuming. The cost of Mailchimp is negligible in comparison.
Same reason why companies use Sendgrid for marketing campaigns.
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#10> Email newsletter tools: Old or new, your pick Am I wrong to think that most businesses/people pay for Mailchimp because getting your e-mail actually delivered into the inboxes of your target audience/customers is non-trivial? aka, you're going to end up in "spam" otherwise? I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I woul…
You can get high deliverability -- the keys, whether you're using your own servers or someone else's come down to a clean list that won't generate complaints and staying within the TOS of your mailserver host or third-party SMTP service.
Host your mail-creation/list-management/analytics stack yourself (I like Mautic and MailWizz but there are other options) and use a third party for SMTP services. Amazon SES charges $1 per 10,000 emails; other services are slightly more expensive but it's all still very affordable.