Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options

Re:Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options by 127001brewer on Thursday May 15, 2014 @10:23PM (#7753407)

For myself, I greatly appreciate having a service like Mailgun available to Rackspace customers - does Linode (or another company) have a similar e-mail service?

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Re:Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options by dangrossman on Friday May 16, 2014 @12:53AM (#7753807)

If you're using it for outbound mail, you might look at using Mandrill. They're much bigger -- it's MailChimp's backend, used by 5M companies. That means mail is their primary business, their ISP relationships are solid and you can count on them to have 24/7 staff if anything does go wrong. They're also quite competitive: 12K free e-mails per month, then cheaper than both Mailgun and Sendgrid.

http://www.mandrill.com/

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Re:Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options by patio11 on Thursday May 15, 2014 @10:25PM (#7753421)

I'm pretty sure you can use Mailgun regardless of where you host at, FWIW.

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Re:Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options by hderms on Thursday May 15, 2014 @10:30PM (#7753434)

Yeah, we use mailgun without Rackspace.

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Re:Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options by fourstar on Thursday May 15, 2014 @10:56PM (#7753486)

You don't need Rackspace to use mailgun, but Sendgrid also works nicely and is independent. Just like you don't need to use EC2 to use S3 (or Route 53, etc).

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Re:Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options by ceejayoz on Thursday May 15, 2014 @11:06PM (#7753506)

Lots of competitors - Mandrill, Sendgrid, Postmark, Amazon SES, etc.

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