SMTP Relay Limit?

I currently have a hosting provider (cough cough) that only allows me to send 250 SMTP relays a day. I am going to be hosting a sweepstakes on my website so when someone signs up for the sweep I am going to send them an auto reply, but I could have as many as 1,000 people entering a day so I need to have an unlimited SMTP Relay. (The other place wants to charge me $2.99 for 3 months for blocks of 50 more day...at that rate I would be paying $134 just to send email and that's just if it was the 1,000, it could be more.)

TIA!

[GvilleRick]

You are not likely to find an unlimited email limit on any shared host (at least on one that is reliable.) You can see the full information on HG's mail policy at http://www.hostgator.com/mailpolicy.shtml. It is considerably more than 250 per day so unless all 1000 users signed up within a short time of each other you should be fine here.

Originally Posted by GvilleRick

You are not likely to find an unlimited email limit on any shared host (at least on one that is reliable.) You can see the full information on HG's mail policy at http://www.hostgator.com/mailpolicy.shtml. It is considerably more than 250 per day so unless all 1000 users signed up within a short time of each other you should be fine here.

I bit the bullet and created a new domain and joined HG for a year. I have to wait another 50 something days to move an already created domain name to HG. But I will. 500 an hour should do well.

[Dwight]

Originally Posted by sweepseeker

I bit the bullet and created a new domain and joined HG for a year. I have to wait another 50 something days to move an already created domain name to HG. But I will. 500 an hour should do well.

You don't need to 'move' your domain registration, just change the DNS to point to your HG servers.

Originally Posted by Dwight

You don't need to 'move' your domain registration, just change the DNS to point to your HG servers.

The host that he site is at now says we can't move it to another server until 60 days has passed.

[GvilleRick]

And even if you want to move the registration there is no need to wait until it expires. When you transfer a domain registration it generally adds an additional year to the current expiration date. Most registrars do prevent transferring the registration for a certain period after it has been initially registered but even then you can just change the nameservers and continue to use the current registrar. All of that is predicated on you actually having control over the domain and registration. If you signed up with a host that offered free domain registration some will maintain control over the registration.

[Dwight]

Originally Posted by sweepseeker

The host that he site is at now says we can't move it to another server until 60 days has passed.

You can't move the domain to another registrar, or change the owner's name on the domain, but you certainly can change hosting which only involves editing your DNS numbers.

[brad]

the nameservers in host speak.

what you may have wanted to do (?) was tell HG you were going to transfer a domain over and specified your domain name. HG would have told you what your nameservers would be and then on your registrar, you would change the nameserver entries. same domain name, it will just go to HG's servers instead of the previous host's.

i actually just did this myself, signing up with HG a couple of days ago. the part I wasn't ready for was HG said it would take 24-72 hours for propagation to occur but it had already started within a few minutes which sent me scrambling since i figured i had at least a day to transfer the site (oops).

but as I understand it, HG will transfer the site for you too if needed.

Originally Posted by brad

the nameservers in host speak.

what you may have wanted to do (?) was tell HG you were going to transfer a domain over and specified your domain name. HG would have told you what your nameservers would be and then on your registrar, you would change the nameserver entries. same domain name, it will just go to HG's servers instead of the previous host's.

i actually just did this myself, signing up with HG a couple of days ago. the part I wasn't ready for was HG said it would take 24-72 hours for propagation to occur but it had already started within a few minutes which sent me scrambling since i figured i had at least a day to transfer the site (oops).

but as I understand it, HG will transfer the site for you too if needed.

I am guessing that I can call any time and get it ready to be transfered. The good news is that I wanted to own both of the domains anyways. (One has an extra S at the end.)

[GvilleRick]

If I am not mistaken you will need to request the transfer of the site within 30 days of purchase. There was an earlier post that mentioned that HG was not able to transfer his site since it had been past the required time period.

[quietFinn]

Originally Posted by brad

what you may have wanted to do (?) was tell HG you were going to transfer a domain over and specified your domain name. HG would have told you what your nameservers would be and then on your registrar, you would change the nameserver entries. same domain name, it will just go to HG's servers instead of the previous host's.

Transfering a domain and changing the nameservers of a domain are two totally different things.

When you transfer a domain it is transfered from one registrar to another. And transfering a domain does not change the nameservers, so you will have to do that anyway.

When you change the nameservers of a domain you do that in the registrar where the domain is currently registered.

[brad]

isn't that what i said? it appeared the OP didn't want to do a domain transfer, but rather just change the nameserver information from the previous host to the new host. something that would take considerably less time.

but he appears to have it sorted out now anyway.

Originally Posted by brad

isn't that what i said? it appeared the OP didn't want to do a domain transfer, but rather just change the nameserver information from the previous host to the new host. something that would take considerably less time.

but he appears to have it sorted out now anyway.

she...but thats okay.

[brad]

that was my next guess. although everything looks like a mailbot to me now.

Originally Posted by brad

that was my next guess. although everything looks like a mailbot to me now.

Boooop Beep beep boop.....