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MailChannels Price Increase - Surprise!
MechanicWeb
Member, Patron Provider
It seems MailChannels has increased their prices for new and existing customers.
...and nobody is talking about it. It came as a surprise when I came to know it from another place.
So, we are on a trend of price increases by key industry players? Surprised nobody is talking about it.
Have you received anything official from them? Does anyone have any news?
Is there any viable alternative to MailChannels, other than SE, that you can use with cPanel servers?
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Higher prices with less features...
Smoke prices have been going up 3 or 4 times (25c each) every year in Canada for the past 10 years.
Bloody nobody is talking about it.
That information helps I guess?
Thanks??
Nobody is interested in them anymore then.
You are drunk. Smoke is heavenly.
Everyone else are drunk, too.
I am glad that now people are talking about it.
I wish I was drunk.....
Is there any viable alternative to MailChannels, other than SE, that you can use with cPanel servers?
https://www.spamwall.com/outbound_filtering.html
It says there's a domain limit but that's not true, it's a total pass through like MailChannels. Small business from what I gather, good and generous people.
It's not gonna do the things MC used to do, but now that they don't do what made them great (forward to another IP when rejected due to blacklisting), I don't think they're even a viable solution to what they were.
I do the things that made MC great, but I'm not selling myself as a replacement for them.
Problem is, they will give you dedicated IP addresses, not like how MC sends emails using thousands of IP addresses?
And not sure about their integration into Exim/cPanel servers, I have heard bad word regarding integration.
Yeah, that would be the case. The IP rotation is still nice on MC and that I'm just not sure a viable alternative exists for tbh. Not within a reasonable price range.
If you want to do it in-house though, take a look at this MTA:
https://github.com/zone-eu/zone-mta
It'll rotate through the IPs you give it in config, and even handles blacklisted IPs automatically by pulling them from the pool for periods of time.
what about using a mailchannels reseller or you could use spamexperts?
Thanks.
That would be nice. But the whole point of using an outbound filter is to reduce the admin hours.
Do you know some of the resellers?
They might also need to increase their pricing.
I have already called some people drunk.
I give you the privilege of choosing a name. What do you want to be called?
receivedfucks, tks.
I am glad its now also on the news.
@MechanicWeb check out https://mailchannels.naranjatec.com/
i think it is run by @gleert but i could be wrong. I think their pricing may have gone up.... Mailchannels is a crazy figure now..... i'll be following...
now where is that mx route option....
In regards to the price increase, do open a ticket and our staff will see what we can do. 👍
i'm thinking just selling office 365 mailboxes for email and then use DA for cloud hosting.
I know them
Is there any other you know?
Good for you. The way things are heading, it is scary. The industry is having major shifts.
We decided to wait on DA. We will give them some more time and then give another try.
Hi Mike!
How are you? Are you busy?
You mean you are glad because people are sad?
Ken here - I'm the CEO of MailChannels. I'd like to clear up a few things.
First, we did change prices for a small number of existing customers who had been using plans inherited from MXroute.io - an older reseller whom we acquired in 2018. These customers have been given an opportunity to keep the same price by committing to a year of service and many have done so.
Second, our pricing for new customers has changed modestly. Our Starter plan is now $69.99 per month (up from $59.99 per month) and our Lite Plan is now $149.99 up from $124.99.
Third, the thread on hostballs.com does not confirm that any feature has been cut from our service. From time to time, our blacklist avoidance feature miscategorizes an SMTP response, causing email to be rejected instead of re-routed. We correct failures like this when we become aware of them. Our support team seems to have given a misleading response in the thread quoted. I'll make sure that gets fixed.
That seems nice. I was wondering why you would change prices of a handful of existing customers
Your starter plan was $49 before. Now it is $69. Almost a 50% price increase.
What features clients will get from this price increase, or is it due to your own operational policy?
Thank you for clarifying that, too.
I'll be glad to update the post but I asked for escalation and confirmation, I only continually received "Send better emails" (paraphrased).
Using MXroute now - it's good, while I've used MailChannels as a hosting client - had more luck than with SpamExperts, but didn't use either of those latter two for very long.
If my understanding is correct, MXroute is good to work on "per customer level", that is, shared/reseller hosting customers can get it by and for themselves to take care of their emails, while hosting providers, who wish to offer emails along with the hosting itself, need solutions like MailChannels and SpamExperts to keep the IP's clean (and protect the customers from inbound spam emails).
Two things to consider:
1)
What is the average yearly inflation rate in $ and euros?
Did the prices stay put for years, decade, or get changed every year?
2)
If you make a known brand with good reputation for good quality service, it makes perfect sense to start earning more for the same work/capital invested. It's marketing's job to make the customers believe they're still getting a good value for the money. That's why Nike's don't cost 10$ and people are still buying them.