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Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

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Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#21
post #5

Great move. Will probably switch to it immediately from Sendgrid as soon as it goes GA. Sendgrid recently killed their free tier (100 emails per day) and their lowest plan is now $20/month for 50,000 emails. It's totally overkill for low traffic projects.

Even with those pricing structures, 95%[1] of the spam I get comes from sendgrid. To their credit, their abuse@ address is good at handling the reports and they reply with a followup that the report was received and able to be acted upon[2].

The volume of spam (for me) doesn't seem to be decreasing from them, so there's a lot of moles to whack.

[1] Just a guess from looking at the last weeks [2] I know it's automated, but often there's 2 that come with the 2nd one stating it's acted upon, so i'm hopeful.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#22
My understanding is that "Best Practice" is to use different companies for different services (not to have all of your "eggs in one basket") in case something goes wrong with one company and they take everything down.

This is what I have...

Domain Name Registrar: Dynadot

DNS: Cloudlare

Hosting: Dreamhost

Email: Fastmail

Should everything be under Cloudflare? I think they also do domain name registration and now, soon email. Not sure off the top of my head if they do hosting.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#25
post #9
post #4

Eventually all Internet protocols will be MITMed by cloudflare. Your single point of interception!

Was about to comment on this but you got right to the point. All of this is because people are lazy to build, let alone maintain, their own damn programs and servers.

Always has been; remember AOL basically reinventing DNS?

And always will be.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#26
It's unfortunate that email hosting and email infrastructure can really be done only well by major players. The days of people running and maintaining their own are pretty much long gone.

Fwiw, not a knock against CF. I like their products, mostly simple, fair pricing, etc. Just a bit unfortunate commentary on the state of email infra on the internet.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#28
post #5

Great move. Will probably switch to it immediately from Sendgrid as soon as it goes GA. Sendgrid recently killed their free tier (100 emails per day) and their lowest plan is now $20/month for 50,000 emails. It's totally overkill for low traffic projects.

Try https://mailpace.com The lowest plan $40/year for 1k emails/month isn’t on the Pricing page, but you can select it when signing up.

Thanks. It's not very smart to not list that plan in the pricing page IMO.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#29
This is exactly the service I was looking for. I am using cloudflare email forwarding but couldn't find anything about how to send form data from webpage to email.

All the email service that I could find has monthly subscription, no pay as you go offer. Hopefully, cloudflare will offer pay as you go.

Is there a way to get priority in waitlist? I don't mind bugs.

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