I wanted to share a little checklist to go over before sending your email marketing campaign. Some of the items on the list are highly technical and may be handled by your service provider. Most of the well known services will take care of the first two sections, but if you feel that your emails […]
Im happy to say that WP Google Analytics Events reached 500 downloads. To celebrate this milestone, I created a 15% discount promo code for the premium version of the plugin, WP Google Analytics Events Pro. It will be up for the next 24 hours so hurry up. Code: “Happy500” WP Google Analytics Events Pro Spread […]
Making small changes to how we resolve domain names can make improve the Postfix performance and will allow you to squeeze a little more juice out of your hosts. Removing IPv6 Queries By default a postfix server works both with IPv6 and IPv4. This means that if a domain name, lets say gmail, resolves to […]
I’m happy to announce my new WordPress plugin, WP Google Analytics Events. Most of the current plugins will allow you to track page navigation events. If you need to track events on the same page, you will have to manually edit the page or theme. WP Google Analytics Events allows you to track events such […]
If you are running more than one postfix server, administration overhead becomes an issue. Every time you want to update the main.cf file you have to manually connect to each server and run the postconf command. As with every manual task, this leads to errors and inconsistencies in the configuration files. One way of dealing […]
When sending large amounts of bulk emails, it may be necessary to enforce rate limiting to prevent the ISP’s from blocking your servers. Reputation In the world of high volume senders, a key metric for detecting spammers is the IP addresses’s reputation. Building a good reputation for your servers takes time and hence patience but […]
Well, at least not directly from your own application servers. Most web applications send out emails, either for registration confirmation or other transactional proposes. This usually involves writing up a small handler that sends out the email directly from the local server, that is running Postfix, Sendmail or *shrug* IIS . If you are administrating […]
A common issue I get to deal with is of clients outgrowing their AWS micro instance. In most cases the server that holds the database and also serves the application. As time goes by, the hard drive starts to fill up with data and log files, at which point, the application might stop responding and the company requires a […]
A small trick that will save you money I have to admit that I tend to forget my EC2 instances running. Thats just a waste of money that a simple automation can solve. Sometimes I launch a new instance to check a feature, work on it for a few hours and then forget its there. […]
