[nomilk]

Very useful thread. I recently considered SES for a quick app and didn't discover the purpose of dedicated IPs. They're listed under add ons, but seem somewhat essential if the emails are important.

Checking out the pricing page, a dedicated IP costs $24.95 per month, which would be more than the actual cost of emails for many small-medium apps (e.g. 100K emails per month would be about $10).

Ooc, do other email providers have the same shared-IP problem? E.g. Mailgun, Postmark, Sendgrid?

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

[LinuxBender]

do other email providers have the same shared-IP problem?

Yes, that is why they let people get a dedicated IP pools and FCrDNS using their corporation name for a price. It is not uncommon for the shared IP pools to get rate limits, temporary blocks, etc... and the corporation specific dedicated IP's are more likely to get through especially if they handle UCE complaints properly.

[nomilk]

> Yes

I didn't spend a huge amount of time reading the docs (just enough to get up and running), but I didn't notice this about other providers either. Great to be aware of this for future reference.

[dubcanada]

Postmark spends A LOT of effort to keep their shared IPs perfect. Rather complex setup with verification. And lots of stuff in place to prevent anything spam related.

But everyone else doesn't really care much.

[shmoogy]

Dedicated can be an issue unless you have sufficient volume, unless I've been mislead in the past.

[bdcravens]

Sendgrid's cheapest plan with a dedicated IP is $89/mo.