Subscribe2 max

[eliboone]

Leslie's thread on her 100,000 name email list reminded me of a question I have been meaning to ask. We have three Subscribe2 lists with one of the lists having over 18,000 names.

Our 18,000 name list takes 3 1/2 hours to send and will die at least 2 times while sending. I figured that when it stops it is just because it just has a hiccup or something. Anyone else have a Subscribe2 list with a comparable # of names have to go to the Subscribe2 outbox and start sending again because Subscribe2 stopped? Is 18,000 names high enough where I should consider moving on to another email product?

Cheers,

[dotCOM_host]

I don't think it's a limitation of Subscribe2 - we have clients using it with a lot more than 18,000 names. It's most likely more of a limitation of what the server can do. Sending massive volumes of email is a lot more CPU intensive than most people realize, and generally trying to send such large volumes of email on a small shared server account may simply be too much for the server to handle gracefully. If anything, you may want to consider moving to a better/faster server, dedicated server, VPS, etc, or simply outsource the whole mass mailing part to a company that specializes in nothing but sending large volumes of email so this doesn't affect your own server load.

[eliboone]

Hi Remik,

I thought in the past I had seen posts about users having Subscribe2 lists with well over 20,000 names. I figured it was probably just our server since we are running three Miva stores, as well as all email on it. I have been thinking about talking to my boss about setting up an additional server strictly for mail. Do you think moving the email to a new machine would make any difference in Miva for our three stores. The sites run just fine now, but just curious if it would make any difference.

Thanks, Eli

[dotCOM_host]

Unless the server is handling a lot of email already, offloading regular email by itself is likely not going to make a huge difference. BUT, if you are referring to offloading mailing lists to a separate system - then yes, that can make a noticeable improvement in your stores' response times. The server will have more CPU cycles and memory available for processing mivavm requests rather than sending large volumes of email non-stop and tying up the CPU and memory in the process.

[eliboone]

Thank you for the info Remik. Setting up a seperate mail server for mail lists is definitely something I hope to look into next year.

Cheers,
Eli