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Daniel Reyes

Daniel writes about the technical side of self-hosting: Linux servers, installing and upgrading, background jobs, performance, and keeping a production system secure.

Articles by Daniel Reyes (22)

Installation & Setup

Install AcelleMail and Get Started

Run the installation wizard, then add a sending server, set up a plan and subscribe a first user, so your AcelleMail is ready to send email.

Oct 5, 2026 17 min read Intermediate Acellemail, Self Hosted, Amazon SES 0 0

Domain Knowledge

GDPR for Email Marketing Explained: What the Law Asks of Senders

What the GDPR and the ePrivacy rules ask of anyone emailing people in the EU: lawful basis, privacy notice, rights, tracking, processors and deadlines.

Oct 5, 2026 20 min read Beginner Email Marketing Basics, GDPR, Data Protection 0 0

Domain Knowledge

Email Consent Explained: Opt-In, GDPR, CAN-SPAM and CASL

What makes email consent valid, single vs double opt-in, the proof to keep, and how GDPR, CAN-SPAM and CASL differ, with the AcelleMail settings.

Sep 30, 2026 17 min read Beginner Email Marketing Basics, Double Opt In, GDPR 0 0

Installation & Setup

Regular vs Extended License: which AcelleMail license do you need?

Envato issues two Standard licenses for AcelleMail: Regular and Extended. One question decides which you need — do your end users pay? Here is the rule, what "one end product" actually means, and where your purchase code goes in the app.

Jul 15, 2026 7 min read Beginner Acellemail, Self Hosted, Codecanyon 0 0

Installation & Setup

Install AcelleMail on AWS EC2

This guide has moved. The install walkthrough for any server, an AWS EC2 instance included, is Install AcelleMail and Get Started.

Jul 4, 2026 1 min read Advanced Acellemail 2 13

Installation & Setup

Install AcelleMail on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

This guide has moved. The install walkthrough for any server, a Debian 12 server included, is Install AcelleMail and Get Started.

Jul 4, 2026 1 min read Intermediate Acellemail 2 10

Installation & Setup

Install AcelleMail on a DigitalOcean Droplet

This guide has moved. The install walkthrough for any server, a DigitalOcean droplet included, is Install AcelleMail and Get Started.

Jul 4, 2026 1 min read Intermediate Acellemail 3 9

Installation & Setup

Install AcelleMail on Rocky Linux 9

This guide has moved. The install walkthrough for any server, a Rocky Linux 9 server included, is Install AcelleMail and Get Started.

Jul 4, 2026 1 min read Intermediate Acellemail 2 8

Installation & Setup

Install AcelleMail on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

This guide has moved. The install walkthrough for any server, an Ubuntu 24.04 server included, is Install AcelleMail and Get Started.

Jul 4, 2026 1 min read Intermediate Acellemail 2 10

Installation & Setup

Securing Your AcelleMail Install: A Post-Install Checklist

Your AcelleMail install works the moment the web installer turns green — but two things now live on your server that didn't before: your subscribers' personal data, and your domain's sending reputation. This checklist secures both, in prior...

Jul 4, 2026 12 min read Intermediate Acellemail 2 10

Server Management

Scaling AcelleMail for 100K+ Emails Per Day

At 100K sends/day you cross the threshold where the default AcelleMail config starts to drag — queue depths climb, MySQL slow queries appear, occasional PHP-FPM 502s. This guide walks the bottleneck math, the configs to tune (queue pool siz...

May 18, 2026 12 min read Advanced Acellemail 2 7

Server Management

Setting Up Queue Workers and Cron Jobs

AcelleMail uses Laravel queues + a system cron to do everything beyond rendering web pages — sending campaigns, processing automations, handling bounces, refreshing stats, dispatching scheduled sends. This guide walks the production-correct...

May 3, 2026 10 min read Intermediate Acellemail 1 7

Installation & Setup

Docker Deployment Guide for AcelleMail

Containerised AcelleMail trades a small ergonomic cost (volumes, image rebuilds, patch flows) for dev/prod parity and clean image-tag rollback. This guide ships a production-ready Dockerfile (with all wizard-required PHP extensions baked in...

May 2, 2026 13 min read Advanced Acellemail 2 11

Security & Compliance

GDPR Compliance for Email Marketing with AcelleMail

GDPR governs how you process EU residents' personal data — and email addresses are personal data. This guide walks the five obligations that touch email marketing (consent, access, erasure, portability, processor agreements) and shows the A...

Apr 30, 2026 5 min read Intermediate Acellemail 1 5

Server Management

Automated Database Backups for AcelleMail

The first backup is the cheapest you'll ever take. By the time you actually need to restore, the cost of NOT having a backup is hours of downtime, lost subscribers, and a furious customer-success conversation. This guide walks the productio...

Apr 25, 2026 12 min read Intermediate Acellemail 1 8

Security & Compliance

CASL Compliance in AcelleMail: What Canadian Senders Need

Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation is one of the strictest in the world — fines reach CAD $10 million per violation. This guide covers express vs implied consent, what every Canadian CEM must contain, and how to record consent inside AcelleMail...

Mar 29, 2026 5 min read Intermediate Acellemail 1 5

Installation & Setup

Server Requirements and Hosting Options for AcelleMail

The right server for AcelleMail is dictated by send volume, not subscriber count. A list of 5M subscribers mailed monthly needs less compute than a list of 100k mailed daily. This article gives concrete specs at four volume tiers, a current...

Mar 25, 2026 10 min read Beginner Acellemail 2 11

Server Management

Redis for Queue Processing

AcelleMail's default queue driver is the database — fine for hobby installs, terrible for production. Switching to Redis cuts queue-dispatch latency by 10×, eliminates MySQL's `jobs`-table contention under load, and unlocks better worker au...

Mar 24, 2026 10 min read Intermediate Acellemail 2 9

Installation & Setup

Installing AcelleMail on DigitalOcean

This quickstart has moved. The install walkthrough for any server, a DigitalOcean droplet included, is Install AcelleMail and Get Started.

Mar 11, 2026 1 min read Beginner Acellemail 2 9

Security & Compliance

Data Encryption for Self-Hosted AcelleMail

Self-hosting means your subscribers' data lives on your server, not a third party's — which puts encryption in your hands. Here's what actually matters: protecting data in transit, at rest, and in your backups, in plain terms, without a sys...

Feb 9, 2026 4 min read Intermediate Acellemail 1 6

Security & Compliance

CAN-SPAM Compliance in AcelleMail: The 7-Point Checklist

CAN-SPAM applies to every commercial email you send to a US recipient — fines reach $51,744 per violating message. This checklist walks the 7 rules, marks the ones AcelleMail enforces for you, and tells you exactly where to set the rest.

Feb 5, 2026 4 min read Beginner Acellemail 1 5

Installation & Setup

Installing AcelleMail on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

This guide has moved. The install walkthrough for any server, an Ubuntu 22.04 server included, is Install AcelleMail and Get Started.

Jan 25, 2026 1 min read Beginner Acellemail 2 9

Articles by Daniel Reyes (22)

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