MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill

Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by hill_smith on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:55PM (#15495317)

+0.5 for Sendy. I've been using it for http://www.tittietime.com quite successfully for 2+ years now.

There have been a couple of bugs that caused me to have to dig into the source code - which as others have stated, is a mess. Though I suspect its been purposely obfuscated to prevent pirating.

If you ever wonder what's going on in functions.php, I've unwound it a bit - you can see its making a phone home:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb21dfc35e1d4b74e136ebc694...

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by nkozyra on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:04PM (#15495360)

Holy God in heaven that obfuscation filled me with dread.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by hill_smith on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:05PM (#15495366)

I think he must have a deployment script that generates all the database connection calls at the top of every file when he releases a new version. No one in their right mind would write code like that.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by homero on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:08PM (#15496606)

They also leave a phpinfo() publicly available which I had to block

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