Tom Harrington has written a couple articles recently about running a customer mailing list for an indie software business.<\/p>\n
Running a customer mailing list<\/a><\/p>\n Return of the mailing list<\/a><\/p>\n \nThe second one’s ominous title has to do with the fact that Harrington’s hosting provider, pair Networks<\/a>, has a restrictive policy about using their servers to send out large quantities of email. Tom’s “solved” the problem by signing up for another account at TextDrive<\/a>, which is more relaxed about the behavior.\n<\/p>\n \nIt’s amazing how common it is for Pair customer’s (myself included) to be simultaneously ecstatic about the company’s well-deserved reputation for stability, while also perennially bummed about the failure of the company to support some “basic” functionality that is taken for granted on other hosts.\n<\/p>\n \nPerhaps that’s why they named the company “pair.” You’ll need to pair it up with another shared hosting provider if you want to run your own mailing list, run Django<\/a> or Ruby on Rails<\/a>, host a Subversion repository, use your database to expose usage statistics to users, and any number of other useful web developer inclinations you might have.\n<\/p>\n