ollieco

I am building a web app that will send SEO reports via email and I am on the lookout for a decent provider to deliver emails.

I understand that Amazon SES is the cheapest when it comes to sending emails. I am not sure how good their email deliverability is.

Other options are Postmark (somewhat pricey), Mailgun and Sendgrid. I would like to know which email providers are preferred by the HN community.

I am a looking to deploy a small web application to a VPS that I bought.

I was hoping to learn a bit about devops in the process (instead of relying on a PaaS like Heroku) but the ecosystem seems overwhelming. There seems to be a large number of moving parts - Docker, Kubernetes etc.

What are some of the simpler options to deploy web apps to a VPS?