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ListMailPRO Email Marketing Software Forums => General Help & How-To => Topic started by: bowmah on September 27, 2007, 09:20:57 am

Title: Pleske versus cPanel (send speed & stability)
Post by: bowmah on September 27, 2007, 09:20:57 am

What are the advantages of going from cPanel to Plesk. In particular, how are the send speeds and stability of Listmail Pro when going with Plesk?

Title: Pleske versus cPanel (send speed & stability)
Post by: DW on September 27, 2007, 12:59:14 pm

Greetings,

Plesk uses qmail mail software, cPanel uses Exim.   In my experience both have similar delivery rates and stability.  I have been able to get a maximum of about 200k emails per day from a single server running either software.  Postfix users have reported far greater successes (http://listmailpro.com/forum/index.php?topic=1966.0), but unfortunately I don't know of good management software that uses it.

Regards

Title: Pleske versus cPanel (send speed & stability)
Post by: Stefaans on September 27, 2007, 01:01:18 pm

I have no experience with Plesk, but am using ListMail Pro on two cPanel servers. And things are working well.

The particular servers are dedicated to a newsletter with a large subscriber base, so we go all out for maximum performance. On a "normal" cPanel / Plesk server you would probably be sharing the server amongst many websites, so full-throttle would probably not be an option.

By themselves, Plesk and cPanel does not influence the performance of ListMail Pro. It really is about the mail server software (Exim in the case of cPanel) and how it is configured. I used suggestions on this forum to tweak Exim a bit for better performance. The configuration is bit different to (dare I say "incompatible" with) the way that cPanel configures it.