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I Guess I Need to Replace Amazon SES Because I Can't Pay My Bill. Recommendations?
raindog308
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Been using Amazon SES for a long time.
Last month, I had a script go wild and sent a few thousand emails to myself. No biggie, but it did push my Amazon SES bill over the free limit. I think I owe $5 or something like that.
I went to pay, but after logging in, authenticating, typing codes, answering captchas, etc. I finally got to "your account has been locked".
Hilariously, I called the 1-800 number and the Amazon guy said "huh, that's weird, well, i can't help you but the people at this number can".
The number he gave me? 1-206-266-1000. Amazon world headquarters. They were about as helpful as you'd expect.
So I guess I can't pay my bill. Oh well.
But now I need to find another drop-in for sending email from scripts...recommendations?
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mail.baby
I’d make sure to pay up, you never know when they might come running with debt collectors that want those $5 plus 10 years worth of interest.
As for the mailing, afraid of signing up paying per email in-case my scripts go rouge, I set up a BuyVM instance for $3.5 (and $0.5 extra for backups) with mailcow, I don’t self-host my emails, but I use it for stuff like this. I like that it’s $4 no matter what.
But when it comes to online and money I’m very careful, that’s why I use BuyVM and not some company charging huge bandwidth overages in case something happends or I get DDoS attacked ..
Oracle? https://www.oracle.com/cloud/networking/email-delivery/
I might have just been lucky, but I left a bill unpaid with AWS for close to two years and all they did was lock my account.
I needed to use their service again and ended up forking over the $8 I owed and they unlocked it.
Either get lifetime shared hosting from myw or smtp2go is free for, I think, 1000 emails/mo.
I use the DirectAdmin api to one line add new email accounts per usage.
Smtp2go is used where email client is old or shitty.
+1 for mail.baby
Why not send the email directly from the VPS?
That's not AWSThink. If you're using ec2 as a traditional VPS on you're already flunking AWSThink
Or they would have used the situation, keep the record, and come in 8 years with their interest.
lmao. wtf is AWSThink? Some exam? I don't think raindog is using ec2? From OP I thought he's using AWS only for email?
I find a significant amount of emails get spam boxed when originating from mailbaby. It's quite a shame.
Some alternatives: https://symfony.com/doc/current/mailer.html#using-a-3rd-party-transport
Correct.
I don't use fly-night-providers who don't have a Patron Provider tag.
It's a reality distortion field where you daisy chain more and more AWS services into a rube Goldberg device that's challenging to trace while you scream time-to-market-lower-TCO-webscale while your bill moves north when all you really needed was a sane sysadmin.
....although I guess sysadmin can be expensive
So lower TCO webscale time-to-market!
so basically this
Nope still too sane for AWSThink but you're kicking the tires now. Full async event driven no persistent services. Just a bunch of "managed services" glued together with s3, SQS, SNS, Lambdas and step functions. Only pay for the milliseconds you use! Make latency great again.
@raindog308 FWIW, I'm still happy with Migadu.
I think @raindog308 should open a onlyfans so they can pay their bills.
Yep! I would love to see him in doggy style
"Make it rain..."
I use the included mailchannels on my $8 buyshared plan, plus my legacy MXRoute subscription.
Works fine for low volume stuff that I just want to make sure gets delivered.
Not as mature as others, but Scaleway has transactional email now.
https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/managed-services/transactional-email/quickstart/
Bit more expensive then AWS, but does work.