I need to send over 600 emails
For performance and anti-spam reasons, all email sending is throttled to 600 emails per hour on all of Acenet's shared servers. If you attempt to send more than 600 emails per hour, only the first 600 will be successfully delivered. The remaining messages will be bounced to the sending email address.
If you need to send out more than 600 emails, you do have options:
1) The simplest and most cost effective solution is to install a mailing list script which has the ability to send out email in batches. We offer PHPList which is available as an auto-install script through Fantastico and Softaculous in your cPanel. If you need assistance with configuring PHPList, there is extensive documentation on PHPList's site here:
http://docs.phplist.com/
Documentation regarding configuring the Sending Rate, specifically, can be found here:
http://docs.phplist.com/PhpListConfigSendRate
We recommend that you set your sending limit well below 600. When configuring your mailing list, you will want to leave some allowance for day-to-day emails.
2) Some mailing lists' sending frequency would make it difficult to abide by our sending limit. Imagine you have a 20,000 email address mailing list that gets sent out daily. With our 600/hour email sending limit, you would only be able to send out 14,400 emails per day. In such circumstances, the bulk email requirements of your site may not be suitable for shared hosting. With such large email volumes, a Virtual Private Server or Dedicated Server would be more apt to meet your needs. We have recently rolled out a new line of VPS plans, with a range of pricing to meet your fiscal limits. Full details can be found here:
http://www.ace-host.net/virtual-servers/
Our new Performance VPS packages should be adequate to handle the email needs of a decently sized mailing list, though only your webmaster truly knows the requirements of your site.
If you feel a purely Dedicated solution would better handle your email sending, we offer a wide range of Dedicated servers. Full details on our Dedicated Servers can be found here:
http://www.ace-host.net/dedicated-servers/
