Steve
Steve
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                It may be helpful if people shared list size and performance, as well as what hosting provider they use? I'm using small EC2 with small RDS from Amazon. Seeing consistent 50-60% cpu usage at "idle" with 120k in list. 
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                +1 
 Is there a way we can hack this?
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                That's true. If you don't mind the downtime that's a simpler method. 
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                I don't think you have to worry about the rate, Amazon will throttle you if it needs to. If you're new to EC2, this guide may be useful: in Ec2 micro strong enough to "sendy" 50k mails? Comment by Steve February 2013 
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                That's been my experience using an AWS micro instance. I know sendy does some useful work filtering out invalid emails and checking for duplicates, but it is slow. Alternative, and costlier, solutions are much faster. 
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                In my experience, an AWS micro instance can send via Sendy at about 5 mails per second. So your 50k list will take ~2.5 hours to send. It's your call if that's OK. Importing your 50k list via Sendy will take much longer. My lists have som… 
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                Hi Ben, Thanks for the response, and all the great support! I do think Sendy's reports are good, and I enjoy the comprehensive layout. I realize it's not fair to compare Sendy to CM since the prices for each service are so differe… 
