Hello! I just wanted to get some help figuring out the best way to "stress test" my new installation of MailWizz and the Amazon LightSail server it is hosted on before formally going live.
The goal is to make sure it can handle our email load before going live - at which point it would be an awful task to try to "reverse things" and go back to our old IEM platform.
Here's what is expected of MailWizz:
1) We have 60 different lists.
2) Each list has an average of 5 autoresponder campaigns with list movement "triggers" that happen on email sends and clicks.
3) Our total number of subscribers are 800K at this time - but this will grow beyond 1 Million and beyond.
4) We get an average of 1500 new subscribers per day that immediately start going through the "maze" of autoresponders - which are sent daily. And they will move from list to list based on what autoresponders are sent and what autoresponder links are clicked.
5) We do general list broadcasts to most of the 800K subscribers 3-4 times per week.
6) We use a combination of PMTA, Elastic Email, and SES MTA's for sending emails.
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I just want to make sure this platform can handle this load. (I've optimized mailwizz completely based on the optimization guide for high volume senders.)
My thought was to import the list of 800K into ONE list in MailWizz - PAUSE all MTA's EXCEPT for the PMTA.
Then I would PAUSE PMTA sending inside PMTA. (It would still be able to receive the emails to be sent from MailWizz, but it won't actually send them).
And then do a FULL test email campaign to ALL 800K subscribers and monitor performance.
Would that be enough?
Remember: the real world scenario will be doing these broadcasts, and will have new leads coming in, AND will be sending Autoresponders and doing list movement triggers.
Any thoughts here?
Thank you so much for any help!
Dan
@twisted1919 @twisted1920
The goal is to make sure it can handle our email load before going live - at which point it would be an awful task to try to "reverse things" and go back to our old IEM platform.
Here's what is expected of MailWizz:
1) We have 60 different lists.
2) Each list has an average of 5 autoresponder campaigns with list movement "triggers" that happen on email sends and clicks.
3) Our total number of subscribers are 800K at this time - but this will grow beyond 1 Million and beyond.
4) We get an average of 1500 new subscribers per day that immediately start going through the "maze" of autoresponders - which are sent daily. And they will move from list to list based on what autoresponders are sent and what autoresponder links are clicked.
5) We do general list broadcasts to most of the 800K subscribers 3-4 times per week.
6) We use a combination of PMTA, Elastic Email, and SES MTA's for sending emails.
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I just want to make sure this platform can handle this load. (I've optimized mailwizz completely based on the optimization guide for high volume senders.)
My thought was to import the list of 800K into ONE list in MailWizz - PAUSE all MTA's EXCEPT for the PMTA.
Then I would PAUSE PMTA sending inside PMTA. (It would still be able to receive the emails to be sent from MailWizz, but it won't actually send them).
And then do a FULL test email campaign to ALL 800K subscribers and monitor performance.
Would that be enough?
Remember: the real world scenario will be doing these broadcasts, and will have new leads coming in, AND will be sending Autoresponders and doing list movement triggers.
Any thoughts here?
Thank you so much for any help!
Dan
@twisted1919 @twisted1920