For one the Mx record is still your hostings. Now remember this, you are actually putting yourself in a awkward situation if your not legit with your emails.
I use a mail server and the first 12,000 mails are free each monthĪfter that. I do not since I use plain text or html and if I do I will just make one. One thing though if you need a great assortment of email templates ect. I actually had my own made and he is still in the process although I am using it now. What I would like to point out is there are some good autoresponder plugins and scripts out there. I also won't discuss click rates since that depends on your copy. Open rates are a little better than I had with GR. I will not harp on delivery rates since that doesn't really matter since there is no way to tell if they land in spam on inbox. I have been testing for over 1.5 months now. That the only one you should use is AW or GR.
People can scream, cry, yell that Self Hosted is no good. Lengthy post so get a nice cold glass of lemonade, put your feet up and enjoy. You are correct about people being lazy - this is another reason most avoid self-hosted. So - Max - do your homework and take the advice you are given with a grain of salt. My favorite thing about self-hosted is that when I DO get a spam complaint I get to see the email address (which is not possible with hosted options), this allows me to further protect my business by adding that email address to my global suppression lists at my hosted a/r as well as adding them to my buyer blacklists. In actuality - add a dedicated IP (not a necessity, but helps) - follow good email practices - and you will likely never get blacklisted. Most folks are simply re-hashing information that they've heard in the past. They do all the "reputation" management just like Aweber, GetResponse, etc.įolks - you must realize that very few people actually have experience with BOTH hosted and self-hosted solutions. I wish people would stop spreading this half-truth.ģ years ago - this was absolutely true.īut today - you can utilize services like, AuthSmtp, Mandrill, Mailjet, MailGun, etc. It might be worth testing both solutions to see which works better for you. How effective they are at doing that can be debated. Whereas services as aweber, actively work to keep their "nose" clean. So your self hosted solution can end up being blacklisted very quickly. We all know people are lazy or malicious and will mark your emails as spam in a heart beat. But I've opted away from the a self hosted solution because of the whole deliverability issue.