How to send 1000+ emails per day using an ASP.NET Web site

Question

We have a website that requires to send 1000+ emails a day to all the customers who opted for the alerts. In couple of months time we are expecting to raise our customer base to

Answer 1

While this question is a bit dated. I have recently undergone a search for a host, and stumbled onto JodoHost.com. They have a reseller program in which you can have a domain classified as a 'mass mailer'. You have to sign a waiver stating that you won't use it for spam, but they give you 'unlimited' emails.

You will want to verify with them that 5000+ emails won't be an issue.

Now outside of finding a host that will allow you to send this many emails (as many ISP's will prevent this number as well), you have two options.

1. Invest in a dedicated server. This way you can host as many sites as you'd like on your server and send as many emails as you want. MailEnable is a perfectly suitable application to use, though its free version is limited to one domain. With this option, your cost will rise significantly over cheap GoDaddy hosting.
2. Use a third party service to send your mass mails. A prior employer had a list of 40,000+ users and we used a third party service to manage our list. That way they are responsible for a lot of the details to managing a list that size (add,remove, spam complaints, etc..)