Replacing Sendgrid with SMTP2GO

Like many folks running small servers, I’ve been relying on SendGrid’s free tier to send transactional email from my self-hosted apps. But with SendGrid removing free accounts unless you're on a paid plan, I needed a reliable and budget-friendly alternative that works smoothly with my control panel, cron scripts, and small automation jobs.

SendGrid's decision to remove free access (unless you’re an existing paying customer) left a lot of us in the dust. I was using it for basically everything. I considered trying to establish an SMTP server of my own, but I looked around for something a little easier. After trying a couple of services, SMTP2GO came out ahead.

They have a free plan that allows up to 1k emails a month, plenty for my use cases. So I created an account, set up a few DNS records per domain, and I'm off! The emails are flowing again. So far so good, I can deffo recommend this service.