I am getting fed up of all those hosting companies!

I run an online community with many members. Almost all the hosting providers have an hourly limit of 500 for e-mails. When my members sign up or contact each other it automatically sends a message to their email account. Can anyone suggest a good host with no limit on emails?

 

havent heard anything like this! isnt there any way to put the option off? so your users dont get the limit emails?

 

go for VPS. That's the only way to have unlimited emails per hour

 

or much better dedicated servers as does DP...

 

VPS is the way to go if you are looking for unlimited emails per hour

 

Yeah the limit is in place to protect the server from large amounts of spam being sent out by one user. All knowledgable hosts have limits in the 500-1000 emails per hour range.

 

It would be slower, but why not run your own mailserver at your house, allow your forum to use it via smtp, and do that? Email can't take that much bandwidth, if you have broadband, no?

That would be the cheapest solution, although not very viable if your connection is slow or not up nearly 100% of the time. But you could keep a count, such that when you hit the ISPs limit, it rolls over to another mail server that you either pay to use, or run yourself.

 

For a mailserver to process many emails, a cheap VPS for just SMTP should be enough.

 

Indeed, that is a good solution, but if you get marked as a spammer, then your VPS host may decide to shut you off.

You may be able to pay a smaller amount to use someone's mailserver, depending on how much and what type of mail you REALLY intend on sending...

 

Westhost is OK, you can send emails to a 10,000+ mailing list in less than 15 minutes

 

Look into a clustered solution like mosso.com or mediatemple's grid server. Or implement mail queueing/throttling within the script you use.

 

Yes, I'd say you need a VPS. Also, do you have any other site runing on same domain?