Getting Started with Broadcast

Install Broadcast on your own server, connect a sending provider, authenticate your domain, and send your first email.

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Lessons: 7
To finish: 58 min
Quiz questions: 21
Certificate: 1

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This course takes you from an empty server to your first sent email. You will install Broadcast, point a domain at it, connect a sending provider, prove to inbox providers that your mail is really yours, and send a test broadcast.

Plan for about an hour if your server and domain are ready. Each lesson ends with three questions. Answer them all correctly to complete the lesson.

Lessons

1 (completed) What Broadcast is and how sending works Learn what Broadcast does, what your email provider does, and how Broadcast orders and paces transactional email, sequences and broadcasts. 7 min
2 (completed) Server and system requirements Pick a server for Broadcast. Learn the operating system, the minimum and recommended RAM, CPU and disk, and why there is no Redis to run. 6 min
3 (completed) Install Broadcast Install Broadcast on a fresh Ubuntu server with the one-command installer, point your domain at it, and finish the first-run setup in the dashboard. 9 min
4 (completed) Domain names and DNS authentication Learn the two domains Broadcast uses, the SPF, DKIM and DMARC records your sending domain needs, and how Domain DNS Health watches them. 9 min
5 (completed) Choose and connect an email provider Pick an email provider, connect it with the Guided Setup wizard, set up webhooks, and split broadcasts from transactional email across two servers. 9 min
6 (completed) Send your first broadcast Set your sender details, add a subscriber, write a broadcast, send a test, and send it for real. Then learn the statuses a broadcast moves through. 9 min
7 (completed) Keep it running: upgrades, backups, monitoring Upgrade Broadcast safely, make backups with an offsite copy, restore them on a new server, and find problems fast with Error Logs and Jobs. 9 min

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Pass the quiz in all 7 lessons to get a certificate for Getting Started with Broadcast, with its own link to share. Sign in to keep your progress and get the certificate.