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I do a web site for a charity. The current provider is Fasthosts, however, they have put up their web hosting prices from £48 to £72.

I have been looking at alternatives, and GoDaddy.com looks pretty interesting at £2.99. However, there is a major problem withat them. The charity wants to be able to send out mailshots about upcoming event. Go Daddy limit to 100 recipients, which is a pain. YOu can to be able to send a mail to everyone in one go.

The charity has about 1000 members. However, it could grow to 2,000 in the future.

I like GoDaddy.com, as the ability to hook in a forum plus they have lots of extras.

Can I mix and match? Can I get emails from Fasthost and webhosting from GoDaddy?
 
I'm with HostGator who are cheap and cheerful. Their mailing policy is here. Basically looks like throttled e-mail sending of 500/hour up to 5000 addresses in total.

Another specialist hosting forum worth visiting is Web Hosting Talk. HTH :).
 
Another solution would be to adopt a PHP script that issues your newsletters in batches, so you could send one clumb of 50 emails every 5 minutes or so and thus get around some of the limits. Just be aware that many people don't like newsletters and can flag/report them as spam (oddly, sometimes even after they've signed up to them), which may blacklist your address. We stopped doing one a long time ago.
 
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Another solution would be to adopt a PHP script that issues your newsletters in batches, so you could send one clumb of 50 emails every 5 minutes or so and thus get around some of the limits. Just be aware that many people don't like newsletters and can flag/report them as spam (oddly, sometimes even after they've signed up to them), which may blacklist your address. We stopped doing one a long time ago.

Agreed with Mark.J - Doesn't really matter who you host iwth as long as you can php mail(). This will let you send out as many emails as you need to but you will need to control the flow so you dont get called a Spamer and as that could be nasty for you and the post you have the php script on.

Most hosts allow you to run mail() on their servers.

As a website designer in Dundee, I have thousands of Email accounts hosted on my server and I also have thousands of mail() scripts running all day long. You do have to be careful though that your script is not wide open adn can be expoited by some chump who wants to add all has mega list to your script and send out a huge amount of emails that will get your script banned from your provider.
 
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