>
> 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.
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