Post AyVC2Jvs1Fh1khzIWm by ojala@mastodon.nz
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 (DIR) Post #AyTyepIbRkBy6mV4Xg by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-09-23T01:35:03Z
       
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       Huh, how time flies. 6 or 7 years ago, at the  OER Foundation, for whom I work as Open Source Technologist, we decided to replace our MailChimp with, eventually, a self-hosted instance of Mautic (https://mautic.org) to communicate with learners taking courses in our online open university courses (https://oeru.org)... We made the change when we had about 5k contact. We now have 66k. Wondering how much we're saving every year... 1/2
       
 (DIR) Post #AyTzNzJT3sawCIRIcy by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-09-23T01:43:13Z
       
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       Turns out that for that many contacts, the annual cost of MailChimp is NZ$7920 (NZ$660/mo). We host our Mautic on a VPS with 15 other web services. It costs us about $30/mo. So, conservatively, let's say it's $3/mo or $36/year. Our Mautic instance has required negligible sysadmin time. The only other cost is $25ish/mo for a MailJet distributed SMTP solution for sending. So our annual cost has been ~ $336/year. That's 4% the cost of Mailchimp. A 96% savings. Seems compelling to me. 2/2
       
 (DIR) Post #AyTzVVBQxz3d4KGSno by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-09-23T01:44:35Z
       
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       I should note, too, that Mautic is far more powerful in many ways than MailChimp, and is fully #libre. If you want see an earlier case study on our use of Mautic, see https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/5763/5600 and search for 'CastStudy' - it's a peer-reviewed journal paper we wrote a few years back.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyU0hiynb9NXHnkM1g by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-09-23T01:57:59Z
       
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       @mackiwg and, incidentally, for about the same cost as what our single MailChimp account would currently cost us annually, we're making 54 separate web services - including all of the services for a full online university - available to our learners and our educator community, serving at least 100 million visitors/year. I think our approach is revolutionary in the midst of this 'cost of living' crisis most of us find ourselves in.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyVC2Jvs1Fh1khzIWm by ojala@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-23T02:08:29Z
       
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       @lightweight Hi Dave,What would be a good self-hosting solution (for multiple services), that would run on an old PC? Something like yunohost, but less flaky?
       
 (DIR) Post #AyVCFAmXLsn58Ykb8C by foxylad@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-23T04:19:40Z
       
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       @lightweight Any problems with deliverability with MailJet?
       
 (DIR) Post #AyymeFeXbsBTPy6dwe by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-10-07T22:16:32Z
       
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       @foxylad nope. We have ~0.1% non-delivery rates, at worst...