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Hosting email images on our own server - any issues with this?

  • April 14, 2017
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Hey all,

Question about hosting images that we use in a daily account update email we send to our clients.

Engineering put the email together and handles most of the maintenance, they also launch the campaign through the API. They're planning to host the images on our Amazon S3 server rather than in the marketo design studio.

Can anyone think of any issues this may cause? Only thing that occurred to me was that marketo may use these images to know whether someone opened an email or not, though I'm not sure if it just uses a blank pixel for that instead.

I found an old post where @Josh Hill​ recommended hosting all email and landing page images on Marketo servers, but no details. Would love to find out the reason.

Thanks!

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

No issues, save for being unable to browse for assets (sometimes this ​is ​a big issue). The tracking pixel will still be Marketo's own.

I recommend you host over http​s:// (this can alleviate issues with webmail image proxies).

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SanfordWhiteman
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April 14, 2017

No issues, save for being unable to browse for assets (sometimes this ​is ​a big issue). The tracking pixel will still be Marketo's own.

I recommend you host over http​s:// (this can alleviate issues with webmail image proxies).

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Anonymous
April 14, 2017

Thanks @Sanford Whiteman

Just to make sure, do you know if this negatively affects an email's spam score:

Wanting to make sure having our emails sent from blah@xyz.com, having our links be links.xyzinsights.com (our marketo domain is a slightly different domain than our email addresses) and our image links being on xyz.cloudfront.net won't negatively affect our sender score or anything like that.

Any insight into this?

Thanks in advance.

SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
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April 14, 2017

Though serving images via CDN is in no way spammy, you might as well create images.xyzinsights.com pointing to your CloudFront distribution. It takes only a sec to set up, can't hurt and will certainly be easier to remember.

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