What is a Text based Autoresponder?

Recently I got this pre-sale question - "Is your Follow up Autoresponder PRO is text based software? Because I don't know much about complicated phpmyadmin databases."

I guess by 'phpmyadmin databases', he means Mysql databases ... I explained him Follow up Autoresponder PRO is php script with Mysql backend.

Most of the scripts when installed on your web site needs to write the data into some kind of database. If the data is stored in text files, the script is refered as 'Text based script'. Same way if the subscribers details, your autoresponder and messages are stored in text files. This type of autoresponder which uses text files to store the data is called 'Text based autoresponder'.

Data will be stored like-
autoresponders.txt
messages.txt
subscribers.txt
etc.

Advantages of these text based autoresponders:

* Very simple to install.
* No need for the databases.
* Easy to manage (For web masters who don't like mysql to deal with ...)

Disdvantages of these text based autoresponders:

* Easily timed out while you running the scripts.

* Most important disadvantage is, text files can not hold much data. Ex: If you have like 50,000 subscribers, the text database runs very slow. On the other hand Mysql databases have good amount of speed and scalability.

When your business is growing you need a good backend of your web site to store your data. Mysql databases can hold large amount data and easy to manage if you have a good front-end interface.

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