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Wow, can you believe it? I was just checking on a couple of my opt-in pages and wanted to login to Aweber to make a change or two and got an error when I hit their index page. I thought, hmpf, that’s odd, and tried their other pages and same thing. “But that’s impossible!”, I thought . . . so I googled a few well-known marketers who I know use Aweber and, yup, their opt-in forms were toast. Wow, I’ve never once seen them unavailable; I’ve never seen that happen.
I still have no idea what’s going on, but I’m sure we’ll all find out shortly. Could be a denial of service or just a hardware failure, or anything else . . . but wow, I’m still fairly astounded that it’s offline. I had been checking out iContact recently, but I just can’t stomach the price (even though it’s fairly good and the interface is better than Aweber, in my opinion). I plan to stick with Aweber, but I’m seriously watching how long this outage lasts. If it’s down hard for too long, it may be time to “diversify my portfolio” when it comes to my lists.
What list managers are you using and if you had to go with an Aweber alternative, what would you (do you) pick?
UPDATE: 12:08 am EST - So far I can ping them and do a traceroute, no problem, but the site still seems to be down. Checked it with friends on the east coast, the west coast and Hawaii and no one seems to be able to pull it up still. If anyone has any news, please post a comment.
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