Hey everyone, apologies in advance for the probably very novice question… I don’t really specialize in the web development realm but I need to set up a community for an organization. I currently run some web servers on HostGator (LAMP stack with cPanel) which of course have fully functional SMTP se…

How is Hostgator not a third party service? :thinking:

What I meant is I don’t want to use Mailgun, etc. as I can’t have that as an extra cost at the moment. Very few people have their own mail server running in their house :stuck_out_tongue: . I can save on that cost by using a server which I already have. I hope I cleared that up :slight_smile:

If you can’t find anything here on meta using the search then the only real answer is… maybe? Mailgun is recommended because it’s widely used and quite reliable. It may be a false economy sacrificing mail deliverability in the name of costs - if you’re willing to take that risk then you don’t have …

[image] Varlov: What I meant is I don’t want to use Mailgun, etc. as I can’t have that as an extra cost at the moment. Mailgun is super cheap and even free if you send fewer than 1,000 emails in a month. I’ve used Mailjet for my personal Discourse because it’s free up to 6.000 emails a month .…

You can try Brevo, 300 emails per day, 9000 emails per month for free. this is also a good solution

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) December 5, 2023, 6:34pm 2

How is Hostgator not a third party service?

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