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I was talking about the VC video you made. I have no idea if it's in the docs or not.
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I've been using git for awhile now. When I tried to set up version control in PHPStorm and I got the git error, I wasn't sure what was going on. I figured that git was part of the program... being that git is open source and all and the VC is local. Then I realized after searching online that I actually have to install git as software on my computer. I guess I didn't put 2 + 2 together and realize that since I have to install git on Linux, I would also have to install it on Windows. I've only ever used git on Linux and usually install it without thinking when I setup the system.
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@michael I was watching your PHPstorm VC video and you might want to mention that Windows users need to install Git to be able to use Git locally. With your Linux system, it's installed. With a Windows system - which I'm guessing most people are using - git needs to be installed.
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Yea, then I'm going to be getting promo emails from Mailgun for the next year!
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Here's a graph of all the providers.
http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/transactional-emailing-providers-mailjet-sendgrid-critsend
Here's a good email testing tool.
http://www.mail-tester.com/
updated by @jimmy: 02/26/16 02:49:30AM
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You make a good point about SparkPost. I'm not really sure how old they are. I just started researching this today when Mandrill, who I use for IPB forum, decided to force everyone to use MailChimp for a much higher price.
Not sure about your second thought though, good question.
Though, have 100K free sends per month is nice with SparkPost. I can't say I'd use 100K, but it's nice to have nevertheless.
I do like MailGun. But having multiple options if a provider decides to do what Mandrill did - forcing users to basically pay more and join MailChimp - might be a good thing.
updated by @jimmy: 02/26/16 02:20:50AM
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Another note: SparkPost just changed their pricing model as a result of the Mandrill situation. Up to 100K emails a month for free! 101K+ is $44 a month.
https://www.sparkpost.com/pricing
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I'm in the process (with another piece of software) of dealing with the Mandrill decision to "close" and force everyone to have a paid account though MailChimp. A lot of people are moving from the service.
While researching new providers, I found an interesting chart. I know Jamroom uses Mailgun for mail - which is a great service - but looking at the chart below the deliverability is much higher for other providers. Maybe you guys would want to create another module for SparkPost or SendGrid?
Just a suggestion.
updated by @jimmy: 05/29/16 09:31:30PM
How Apache Is Losing The Web To NGINX
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I'll check that out! I use both, but since I started using centminmod.com for my servers, I've moved to using Nginx. If you haven't ever check out centminmod.com it's one of the best LEMPs I've ever used. eva2000 (developer) is a really smart guy - check out the centminmod forums.
