I may need to find a new webhost and mailing list manager for my organization, as I'm seeing things that suggest our current webhost may not be long for this world. I could be wrong but am having difficulty contacting them and I want to be ready if something happens.
This is a volunteer organization, inherently opt-in, so spam or abuse of the list is not a concern - we have no reason or desire to send to anyone outside our organization and we don't do fundraising via email.
With a total membership of around 2,400, approximately 10-15 lists and a maximum likely list size of 800-1,000.
Ideally we'd like a free service, as all our costs come out of the pockets of our volunteers - we don't use fundraising proceeds for admin costs - but I've no idea if that's realistic. Google may have an option but I'm not sure yet.
Perhaps an open source thing we could run off our webhost? Would need to be usable by a relative neophyte.
Can anyone suggest an option for us? I am the webmaster but have no experience in mailing lists and have not been managing our current listserve system.
Also, if anyone can suggest a reliable and economical webhost in Canada or US (PHP, MySQL, looking for 200gb or so of space, relatively light bandwidth) I'd be grateful.
Sorry for the rambling message, got a lot on my plate right now.
Thanks
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