# Spread out Digest emails to mitigate sudden traffic?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/spread-out-digest-emails-to-mitigate-sudden-traffic/31425>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** activity-summary\
**Created:** [Julho 25, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spread-out-digest-emails-to-mitigate-sudden-traffic/31425 "2015-07-25T14:54:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![jesselperry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jesselperry/32/119501_2.png) [@jesselperry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesselperry)\
**Post date:** [Julho 25, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spread-out-digest-emails-to-mitigate-sudden-traffic/31425/1 "2015-07-25T14:54:09Z")

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I notice that Digests are sent in batches together to a lot of users at once. I’m curious if it would be possible to have those spread out more so that you’re not causing a big sudden spike of traffic from the Digests being sent. I notice from my MailChimp stats from campaigns that go out, people seem to open/click emails by a huge margin in those first few hours after an email goes out, if they’re going to at all. So spreading out the Digest emails in Discourse could help. I have over-provisioned with the DigitalOcean droplet I have, so it’s not a big deal for me - but might be helpful for those that are just on the edges of hardware for their Discourse.

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