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"Are there not sufficient free open source tools to monitor your server and mail you when it goes down? Why would some of those big ticket customers ever pay fo
by jfarmer 17y ago
"Are there not sufficient free open source tools to monitor your server and mail you when it goes down? Why would some of those big ticket customers ever pay for something like this?"
You're trading money for (someone else's) time. I could build pingdom for my own services, but I don't want to. I'd have to build it, scale it, maintain it, and monitor it.
I'd rather pay someone else to do it for me, and I'm technical.
- megamark16 17y agoNot to mention that for website availability monitoring you may want tracking from multiple geographical nodes (east coast, west coast, midwest, etc). Add on reporting, compliance related information storage, etc, and you're talking about a service worth paying for (to some people).
- christofd 17y agoGood list.