I know everyone says it's not practical to run your own mail server, but I wonder if it's something I should have another look at. Even though this article says the cost of SES is 12:1 vs self managed infrastructure, and it's likely that SES is on the cheaper side of things, it's not really about the cost for me, it's about the loss of control.
I don't like having the potential for changes I can't control. It almost feels like I need two of everything just to be safe.
I wish some of the up-and-coming auth systems (ex: logto.io) would have some kind of tiered fallback for transactional email. For example, I have self hosted mail that's tier 1 (use first), AWS SES as tier 2 (use for failover), and Postmark as tier 3 (use as a last resort).
The reason I list Postmark last is because there is a point where price becomes a factor for me. If Postmark is 10x SES for 50k messages, and SES is 12x self managed infrastructure, that's 120x costs (12,000% markup), right? I feel like that's so expensive I might have gotten it wrong, so please correct me if I did.
I don't like having the potential for changes I can't control. It almost feels like I need two of everything just to be safe.
I wish some of the up-and-coming auth systems (ex: logto.io) would have some kind of tiered fallback for transactional email. For example, I have self hosted mail that's tier 1 (use first), AWS SES as tier 2 (use for failover), and Postmark as tier 3 (use as a last resort).
The reason I list Postmark last is because there is a point where price becomes a factor for me. If Postmark is 10x SES for 50k messages, and SES is 12x self managed infrastructure, that's 120x costs (12,000% markup), right? I feel like that's so expensive I might have gotten it wrong, so please correct me if I did.