Vortech Inc. .::. New Server mail8.hsphere.cc

[admin]

There is a new server Server online mail8.hsphere.cc

Remember to login to your reseller account and do the following:
Adding logical servers and server aliases:

1. Login into the admin control panel.
2. Click E.MANAGER
3. Click DNS Manager
4. Click edit button to the right of DNS zone
5. Click edit button to the right of your instant alias address
6. If there are logical servers that need to be added, scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Add records to all listed logical servers”
7. Click Server Aliases under E.MANAGER
8. If there are server aliases that need to be added, scroll to the bottom of the page click Submit.
9. Allow 4-12 hours for changes to take place.
10.The NEW server will be turned on within the next 24 to 48 hours.

[antic]

Just an idea... with all these mail servers, is it worth us developers building in a distribution across all servers when sending bulk emails?

For example, if sending 8000 emails to site members, maybe we can do a "round robin" of SMTP servers, so each one gets 1000 instead of one getting the entire load?

Is that worth doing or will it not really help much?

[Vantage]

Mailing lists are restricted to the server they are on, If you are sending from a script on one of the web servers you should not be using one of the mail servers to send. We have a dedicated server for this.

[antic]

No worries, just throwing in the idea to see if it was useful.

Currently if I send an email from a script, I use the web server the script is running on for SMTP - after reading various previous posts, I assumed that was the latest best practice.

Is that right, or are you saying scripts should use the "dedicated server" mentioned? Haven't read anything about that one.... can you clarify?

Cheers

[Vantage]

Using localhost is our preferance. Some scripts require an smtp server though. There scripts can send through "forward.hsphere.cc".