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Looking for a VPS for transactional mails
Hi there,
We are looking for a VPS to send transactional emails for our projects.
No advertisements or spam — only user verifications, newsletters, and keyword alerts for media monitoring systems sent to our verified clients.
We need a clean IP, a host with 99.9% uptime, and reliable support.
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lol...use mxroute, mail.baby, or SES
Purelyemail, NameCrane or Brevo free plan.
Avoid mxroute imho.
There is also Ahasend too.
NameCrane
NameCrane or SES.
@NameBig seems promising
If the OP is seeking for a vps and wants to self-host a mail stack, I recommend installing a free control panel or mailcow and using it for transactional email, but this requires technical skills, which I assume the OP already has because he is asking for a vps.
If you don't want the setup/hassle and have a big volume-budget, go with Brevo (we use it for billing/setup emails), which is quite reliable. If the volume and budget is low, OP might consider looking into Mailbig.
~Vikas
Seems like literally everyone missed VPS in OP's post...
Not necessarily. Hosted email service may be a better fit.
OP didn't ask for a hosted email service.
If you just need to send email, dont host your own vps. Just use external mail services
OMG )))) why people thinking, that nobody knows about google or external services.. really.. why?
Iam not choosing external services, because always to hard to change them... +price for them changing time 2 time. When 1 big player changing something, all other also doing the same...
I use OVH. Their VPS servers aren't a bad price, and every IP I have had from them has been clean to start.
We also, but they have CAP 25k mails per month
I did not know that. Thank you for letting me know.
Ses
Hey @thethe,
Makes sense if you want to keep it on your own server. For a lean Postfix setup our EPYC 1G is usually enough. It has 1 core (AMD EPYC Zen 3 Milan), 1 GB ECC DDR4 RAM, 10 GB NVMe in RAID 1, 1 IPv4 and an IPv6 /64 for 1.49€/mo. If you want a full stack like mailcow with spam filtering and a web interface, the EPYC 8G has 2 cores, 8 GB RAM and 50 GB NVMe for 6.99€/mo, or 6.29€/mo with code LET10.
Port 25 is requested through the network management, and in some cases it gets unlocked automatically. rDNS for IPv4 and IPv6 you set yourself in the panel. There's no formal SLA, but some of our systems run for over a year straight, and we plan maintenance so customers don't notice.
Traffic is unmetered with no monthly cap, on a 10 Gbps shared port, and the server sits at SkyLink in Eygelshoven, Netherlands.
Order: skri.me/epyc
Test IPv4: 77.90.60.30 | Test IPv6: 2a09:3f00:3000::cafe
Looking Glass: skri.me/network / AS215365
How about SMTP cap? how many mails i can send per month?
Hey @thethe,
There's no fixed monthly cap on the number of mails from our side, as long as it stays legitimate mail like your transactional mails, newsletters and alerts to verified customers. The mails go out directly from your own server, so it's your own Postfix or mailcow doing the sending and not a shared relay of ours. Port 25 is requested through the network management, as mentioned.
If you want to spread the volume over more than one sending IP, additional IPv4 addresses are 1.49€/mo each through our EPYC configurator at skri.me/epyc-config.
No 1, IP is over for me. I will buy 1vps, after add few some.
Whats about volume, i will open ticket, and mark this topic. please inform support about this discussion.
Hey @thethe,
Sounds good. When you open the ticket, just add the link to this thread and your expected volume, then support has the full context and we can go through it there.
Until 01.11. 23:59 CET every balance top-up also gets 10% extra credit, in case you order before then.
Most VPS providers will have an issue with the amount of mail that you intend to send, if not sooner, then later, not to mention that a clean IP can become not-so-clean in the drop of a hat
(Among VPS providers, @SKRIME seem to be an exception, so it would sense for you to go with them. There won't be many other options anyway)
@thethe Outside LET, you can use HostUp, but you need to complete KYC to unblock the SMTP port. The email deliverability is pretty good, with emails going straight to the inbox. They also offer unlimited email accounts with their web hosting.