We’ve made an important internal change in this version of our autoresponder software. While there are no visible changes, the way newsletters are scheduled is changed. This should allow scheduling a newsletter to very large mailing lists even on slow hosts. Until now the software scheduled all these emails in the DB, but when some people had lists of 100,000 subscribers this meant 100,000 DB queries. On slow shared hosts this often caused problems.

Now the new version runs one query for the newsletter regardless of your list size. While managing such large lists on shared hosts is asking for trouble, I wanted to make sure our software handles it.

If you have purchased less than an year ago you can contact me to get the upgrade for free. Otherwise upgrades are 50% of the regular price as usual.

A quick note that our autoresponder software is updated to version 2.6. Here’s the new:

• Improved UI
• Customization of double opt-in email and unsubscribe text
• Easier upgrade from previous versions

As usual, customers who have previous versions can contact me to get the upgrade either for free or for 50% of the cost depending on the time of their last purchase.

Polls are very simple things and yet so many people don’t get them right. I looked into many scripts and didn’t like most.
Watu Ajax Poll is an effort to make one that is really simple and just works. We are giving it 100% free without any obligations.

For the moment it’s self-hosted, i.e. you need to download it and install it on your site. If I get some good feedback, we may offer free hosted version so people will be able to just sign up, get their code and embed it in any site.

Feel free to fork us any mods! The source code is open and while not on Github yet, it’s available to poke.