[thelist] Emailing Newsletters - Server Load

[Chris George]

Not sure if this is helpful, but we do roughly the same thing, and just to
ensure we're not going to wang away on our own server we put a delay between
the e-mails - about 4 seconds I think.

on 11/30/2001 10:21 AM, Bill Haenel at bill at webmarketingworx.com wrote:

> I'm planning on sending bi-weekly newsletters to a 1000-5000 name opt-in
> list for a client, and will be doing so via PHP/MySQL from their site, which
> is hosted by a hosting company I resell space from.
> 
> My concern is server load. I haven't had occasion to do an operation like
> this from a script via web server before, and I really have no idea what's
> going to happen to the server when I attempt to send the NL. Anyone know
> what kind of strain will be exerted on the server?
> 
> Thx,
> BH