good web hosting company for Mailman?
My hosting company have just put a ceiling on the number of emails our domain can post in an hour = 100. This is hopeless for us, as one email sent to a list with 98 members = 98 emails, in their book. Consequently loads of my emails are being discarded by the server and my punters are cross.
Another drawback of my host, for Mailman admin, is that Mailman can only be installed via CPanel. Also SSH terminal access is not permitted. Its all very limiting.
Which hosts are good for Mailman? Who do you folks use? I have a preference for small UK companies, but any efficient and good value suggestions are welcome.
Best wishes Nigel
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:03:06PM +0000, nigel white wrote:
My hosting company have just put a ceiling on the number of emails our
domain can post in an hour = 100. This is hopeless for us, as one email
sent to a list with 98 members = 98 emails, in their book. Consequently
loads of my emails are being discarded by the server and my punters are
cross.
Move providers to someone who can sort your needs.
Another drawback of my host, for Mailman admin, is that Mailman can only
be installed via CPanel. Also SSH terminal access is not permitted. Its
all very limiting.
Are you a (wannabe) sysadmin?
Which hosts are good for Mailman? Who do you folks use? I have a
preference for small UK companies, but any efficient and good value
suggestions are welcome.
I run my own boxes, some hosted with Mythic Beasts (in Cambridge), some elsewhere.
Mythic offer shell-accounts (which may be all you need), with Mailman offerings as add-ons. See http://mythic-beasts.com/pricelist.html (they also have a referral scheme...).
(or you might find one of their VPSes sufficient for your needs; although on a recent look, Bytemark offer more bits-for-your-bucks.)
<work_hat>I keep meaning to splinter-out and set-up a mail-done-properly-but-cheaply-in-the-uk service</work_hat>
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-----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-bounces+brian=emwd.com@python.org [mailto:mailman- users-bounces+brian=emwd.com@python.org] On Behalf Of nigel white Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:03 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] good web hosting company for Mailman?
My hosting company have just put a ceiling on the number of emails our domain can post in an hour = 100. This is hopeless for us, as one email sent to a list with 98 members = 98 emails, in their book. Consequently loads of my emails are being discarded by the server and my punters are cross.
Another drawback of my host, for Mailman admin, is that Mailman can only be installed via CPanel. Also SSH terminal access is not permitted. Its all very limiting.
Which hosts are good for Mailman? Who do you folks use? I have a preference for small UK companies, but any efficient and good value suggestions are welcome.
Best wishes Nigel
-- Headingley Community web site www.headingley.org
Hi Nigel:
You can view a list of friendly mailman hosts at http://wiki.list.org/display/COM/Mailman+hosting+services.
I will also invite you to take a look at our services at http://mailmanhost.com. We impose no sending limits on any of our mailman clients. Though we are an American company, we are seeing a large influx of UK clients to our services.
Also SSH terminal access is not permitted. Its all very limiting.
The only way you will gain access to the backend of Mailman is to have root access to the server and this can only be accomplished via a VPS or dedicated server. Having ssh access on a shared hosting account will still not allow you to access the scripts that are contained in the mailmaninstallation/bin/ directory. However most end users of mailman do not need access to these scripts. At least that has been our experience.
Feel free to contact me off list if you additional questions.
Brian Mailmanhost.com
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