Never mind. Arvixe.com is very slow when sending bulk emails, I guess. It took about 30 minutes for me to get the newsletter.

Currently I have 42 subscribers including myself. I just sent out a newsletter and it took about 30 minutes for me to get the newsletter. I thought there was something wrong with my SMTP settings, but it turned out not the case.

Wow! That really is slow for only 42 newsletters.

My main site has over 8000 users and whilst I don't send bulk emails very often, the hosting service has suggested that I warn them if I plan to send more than 7000 emails in bulk. (not a mojoPortal site and not Arvixe).
And I usually get emails from my site's forum within 15  seconds of making a post.

Earlier today, I was demonstrating my prototype mojoPortal/Arvixe site to a potential client.
The response time was awful. (20+ seconds to get an initial response from my site and a similar time for each page view)

Makes me think that I should be very careful about what  I put on Arvixe!  

Thanks for the info.

Ken

Ken, if you are using a shared personal hosting plan with Arvixe, then you cannot expect the performance to be superb. I upgraded my plan from BusinessClass ASP to BusinessClass ASP Pro during this Thanksgiving. Since Pro is more expensive, I figure there would be fewer customers competing resources. It turned out I am right. My sites load faster than before.