[thelist] Emailing Newsletters - Server Load

[J J]

We usually send 50 or so at a time, then a 5 second
delay, then continue.  Gives the server some time to
breath.


--- Chris George <chrisg at gsnet.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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