I want to make a program that will communicate with a database that has name, mobile number, etc. and send them SMS messages in different occasions through HTTP API provided by a service provider. I want the database and the application to be running in an external server and go through list of names every day to send messages. Please give me a head start on what would be an appropriate programming language/database and where can I host my application. I can send SMS through HTTP request that the service provider has
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A LAMP stack is pretty accessible (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP), and you could accomplish what you describe with a few simple PHP scripts and a cron job – assuming that you just need to send messages once a day.
If your messages are also scheduled for specific times, then it might be wise to move to a stack that persists in memory – as it could continuously check the schedule more easily than PHP’s single request model. Perhaps node.js if this is something you need, Javascript is also pretty accessible.