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Ask HN: Review my pivot, a server uptime monitor

5 点作者 JFitzDela大约 14 年前
Okie dokie -- Monitor For Me as a home alarm monitoring service was an utter flop, so I let it stagnate while I moved on to other things.<p>The other day a critical server of mine went down and I only discovered it by chance. "Shazam," I thought, "a pivot is in order!" I reoriented the service, got it live, and then I discovered Pingdom, UptimeRobot, and the several other options (that I somehow missed in my single cursory Google search) that already provide monitoring and notifications.<p>Not to worry, though, because I still believe I can carve out a piece of the market.<p>Monitor For Me checks up to 10 websites (or any hostname/IP and port that can be opened) every minute per user for $15/month. It'll also capture and show you response times from (currently) three cities around the US, and I plan to add a 4th in the US and one in London before too long.<p>Obviously there are a tremendous number of reporting, connection types, and options in general that can be added for value, but I want to start with the MVP -- a simple service to let you know (by SMS or email) when your server goes down.<p>Any hackers around here mind signing up and trying it out and letting me know what you think? Am I wasting my time (because the product needs more oomph or because there just isn't market share available)?<p>Edit: Also, if you've used other services like this, what was missing? What was unnecessary?<p>If you don't mind taking a look, visit http://monitorfor.me (clicky below), and use the access code HNFTW (limited to 15 users, I'll update if it fills up) for a free month of access.<p>Thanks a million!<p>- John

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kovar大约 14 年前
This problem has been addressed over the last 20 years by more products and services than I can remember, ranging from csh scripts that would ping a site and send an email if it was down to HP OpenView.<p>There are more than a few and sub $100 tools for Windows that'll do this and a lot more, so charging $15 for a service isn't going to fly.<p>Further, to properly monitor uptime requires a lot more than just monitoring the host. You need to monitor the various services, and the health of those services. Is the web server returning a valid page or a 404?<p>Then there's the need to monitor hosts and services that are not publicly routable, getting into authentication or the need to run the service inside the firewall rather than via a public site.
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Animus7大约 14 年前
So this works by pinging the server? I ask because a lot of downtime is the malfunction of a specific program or component that still keeps ping and http intact. How do you detect this?<p>And if it's a ping thing, why would I pay 15 bucks per month and trust a third party when I can write my own script to dump failed ping results to my email?<p>I fail to see the distinguishing feature that I need monitorfor.me for.
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JFitzDela大约 14 年前
Clickable: <a href="http://monitorfor.me" rel="nofollow">http://monitorfor.me</a><p>Invite code: HNFTW (on the registration page)
bmelton大约 14 年前
Not to pee on your cornflakes, but for basic ping monitoring, even geographically distributed, $15 a month is a VERY high price.<p>For that cost, I'd expect it to do a lot more.