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by lormayna 368 days ago
I don't know in USA, but in Europe you can subscribe a 1€/month SIM contract that allow you to send a large number of SMS or even get a prepaid SIM. Using an old phone, connected via USB to a Raspberry would be an alternative and you will not rely on any third party service.
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That used to be the way to do that in 2G era.

Multiple Nokia 6210 or similar connected via RS ports to servers. It was reliable, reasonably priced (SMS price was not great compared to today), allowed for around 12 or so texts a minute AFAIR. Some companies I know used to do that for downtime notifications to admins.

Today I can get a card with unlimited text for around 3-4€ a month.

Honestly pushover is better and cheaper.