I was going to suggest a prepaid phone with a cheap plan (tracfone or net10 or something?) connected to your computer via usb, and your computer sends the messages via the phone connected to it, but a dollar a month plus 100 messages for .75 is hard to beat.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Brian Martin <[email protected] > wrote: > > > > > Have you looked at Pager Duty? Maybe it's too expensive for your needs? > > > > I've looked at Pager Duty before, and it looked like a lot more than I > really wanted. They do service monitoring, rotating on-duty call lists, > auto-escalation, etc. Great services, but all I really wanted was > someone that would take my text messages and send them for me. The cost > is $19/month, which is OK but I'd be paying more than I want for more > than I need. > > Answering my own question, I found, tested, and implemented twilio.com > this morning. $1/month + $0.0075/message. It has a variety of > interfaces to send/receive messages, including something as basic as > just calling "curl" (for which they provide a cut-and-paste example on > the test page). Their goal is to turn messages around in under 30 > seconds, though delays at the carrier are beyond their control. You pay > in advance for services, so I've paid them $20 and they'll run that down > until it runs out of money, but they provide the option to automatically > recharge the account when it falls too low. They take payments through > credit cards or PayPal. That's as opposed to some other services require > me to stay on top of my balance and recharge it manually or silently > lose service. Twilio looks real good so far. > > -B. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
