Paying a WhatsApp API provider just to send server alerts becomes expensive as your scripts send more messages. Here’s how to self-host OpenWA on Linux with Docker Compose, link a number, and send messages and webhooks through its REST API.
Imagine a backup job fails at 2 AM on one of your servers, and the alert email lands in a mailbox nobody checks until morning, because email is where every other notification goes too.
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