Thread: VPS vs. Dedicated

I am upping my email sending per day, and have been using shared hosting accounts relaying the emails via SMTP, but I know this isn't the most efficient way to go about it.

I am going to upgrade to a VPS or dedicated server, but am unclear on the cold cut pros/cons between the two. I am looking to send around 300k emails per day.

Obviously you get more storage,bandwidth, etc with a dedicated, but I am debating the two just for pure sending purposes.

Let's say I have Interspire installed on it, will it run significantly faster on a dedicated over a VPS?

Also, let's assume that not all of my contacts are opted-in (if you know what I mean, haha) - bulletproofing 100% necessary?

Thanks for the input everyone.

300k/day+interspire?, you need a server, nothing less.

Thanks toyo...

how about a VPS hosting company that allows unlimited sending?

Most strictly disallow spamming, when getting a VPS you often also have high fees in case you put one of your IPs into email blacklists.
They often require double opt-in prcedures to allow you send mass emails.

In any case you should look for a dedicated server, on a VPS you are monitored in detail on a dedicated server no-one looks what you are doing as long as you do not cause trouble.
You will also ahve no restriction on the number of mails, it's just a bandwidth thing.

VPS means you share some of the resources with others. Even though you can get some nice vps systems, most serious mailers would go with a dedicated machine so they can have ultimate control over their operation.

That makes sense, thanks.

When you say that there is no restriction to the number of emails sent, and just a bandwidth issue, are you referring to a VPS, dedicated, or both?

Thanks again

@whiskerbiscuit
@justone

Thanks for both of your inputs.

The lists I have have been opted in at one point, but have been sold and re-sold, so they're not Completely clean, if you know what I mean. What are the risks of getting my system shut down if I'm deciding between a VPS and dedicated system.

I'm assuming the VPS will be more likely to be shut down since it's shared, but what about a dedicated system that's US based? do I absolutely need off-shore?

both usually.
but a VPS server must not be stressed regarding memory and CPU otherwise you'll either get warned, processes killed, account suspended or banned.

You have your bandwidth, on a dedicated server you receive like 0.5-2 TB monthly, you can also use more but you better upgrade that before overusing it as overusing includes fees per GB.
You can send a LOT of mails with that space, if you send text-only mails or just small attachments you are as good as unlimited regarding bandwidth.
It only depends on the CPU and memory how much you can send

They usually all disallow spam and what you do is spamming, right ?
Spamming is handled by botnetworks these days because you are faster on a spam-blocklist than you can change IP.
So this is probably the main concern, if you send millions of mails your IPs get banned.

I'd not spam in the USA, people get jailed for that.
Maybe better look for something in russia, hungary or similar. They might ban your ass but it probably ends at that step.

You can. But you need to do it right, even in the states. 90% of spam originates from the States.