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Re:Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS... by rad_gruchalski on Sunday May 23, 2021 @09:50PM (#27260397)
How many of these €50/month does it take to reconsider? €50 for hosting, €50 for email, €50 for tracing, €50 for sentiment analysis, €50 for this, €50 for that. By the time you realise, you are burning €6k a year on stuff that takes hours to roll out yourself.
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Re:Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS... by jrochkind1 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:38PM (#27260615)
You are suggesting rolling out all of those things yourself will take only a one-time investment of "hours" (meaning fewer than 10?), with no ongoing maintenance?

I think at minimum "hours" per month seems more realistic, no?

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Re:Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS... by nickjj on Monday May 24, 2021 @06:59AM (#27262966)
Maintenance isn't too bad IMO.

I've been running Sendy for a while on my own host. I spend about 30 minutes a year on maintenance time to occasionally upgrade versions. Each upgrade takes about 10 minutes and I tend do it every few months.

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