V Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 I'm attempting to make a subscription system similar to Twitter but it allows people to follow a certain blog category. I was thinking to use rss and feedburner for people to subscribe by email but I need something more integrated. A know about session control and how to register people on my site but I'm not sure about subscriptions. Please help me with your suggestions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ram4nd Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Use database to store the subscribed persons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 Sure but how would I notify them of new posts? And allow them to unsubscribe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 I'm thinking to send email blasts to subscribed people whenever there's new post but most email servers can;t send out more than 50, 100 emails at once. That's where I'm confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Sure but how would I notify them of new posts? And allow them to unsubscribe. Get their e-mail from the database and send them an e-mail whenever a new post is made. You unsubscribe them by setting a certain field to a certain value (that's as vague as it gets). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 Thanks for the reply. Yup it sounds simple but I'm uncertain about the emailing part. This may be farfetched but for example if I get 8000 subscribers to one category and I post a new article can an email service like yahoo or my host email handle that? I know that my hosting email can send to max 300 people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I know that my hosting email can send to max 300 people. In one e-mail? Or is this a global limit that you can't send to more then 300 people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 I know that my hosting email can send to max 300 people. In one e-mail? Or is this a global limit that you can't send to more then 300 people? It's the number of people I can email at once, in a certain time-frame (hostmonster). But on emails like Yahoo or AOL I know that the limit is far less. I suppose that sites like Twitter have a lot of web server space reserved for sending emails :-\ I'm thinking that I may need a dedicated server if I plan to send a lot of emails. Unless there's another way to alert people of new posts. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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