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I'm assuming the author is hosting Mailwizz on his own desktop machine? I didn't see the costings for an EC2 instance in his AWS breakdown. If it is indeed hi

I'm assuming the author is hosting Mailwizz on his own desktop machine? I didn't see the costings for an EC2 instance in his AWS breakdown. If it is indeed his own machine, I wonder if he has factored in the data transfer costs to/from AWS. If he had an EC2 instance fired up, then the data transfer is free, however there is the monthly cost of the instance to consider. Also, what about the stack that Mailwizz runs on? It it available as a simple turn key virtual or docker setup, or do we need to install a LAMP stack etc. to get it running? Time to get the stack running (and maintaining it to keep running) should also be factored into the $54 licence cost of the software.

gtsteve 9y ago
If the author is using a micro instance in the first year, there is no charge [0]. Also, the author only needs to start the instance when he needs it, so the costs would be minimal. Furthermore, only transfer out of AWS is billed; there's no cost to upload, which is what I imagine would be the bulk of the work. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/free/ https://aws.amazon.com/free/
- disiplus 9y ago
  how does he deal with unsubscribe if his server is offline after sending ?
  - gtsteve 9y ago
    Very good point! I guess the cheapest way to do that on AWS would be with a Lambda function. Or perhaps he already has his own web infrastructure not on AWS that contains the list.