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Why not use SAAS to launch faster, then replace SAAS with in-house after you've built market share?

by billmalarky 10y ago

seibelj 10y ago
For many things building it yourself doesn't take that much longer than doing an integration with a SaaS product. Usually I need 1 or 2 features that are a small piece of a much larger product.
- brianwawok 10y ago
  Do you have concrete examples? Maybe this is getting too complex to use abstracts for.
  - seibelj 10y ago
    server monitoring to ensure that it responds and is running. I solved it with a cron job. Lots of other server monitoring software with bells and whistles, didn't need it
    - billmalarky 10y ago
      New relic sever monitoring my friend. It's free (emphasis because I was shocked when I looked up pricing) and takes all of 5 minutes to setup (no exaggeration, it uses yum for 99% of setup). https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/servers/new-relic-servers-linux/installation-configuration/servers-installation-redhat-centos https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/servers/new-relic-servers-lin...
      - brianwawok 10y ago
        How is it free when it says it is 10 cents per hour per host? There is a LITE plan but it seems like no alerting?
        billmalarky 10y ago
        Hmm, it looks like they have changed their pricing strategy. When I first signed up it was no strings attached free as a loss-leader to move you towards using their application monitoring products. https://blog.newrelic.com/2011/11/08/server-monitoring-is-here/ https://blog.newrelic.com/2011/11/08/server-monitoring-is-he... So far I appear to still be grandfathered into the the free server plan? Anyways, I guess you can disregard my original comment.
    - brianwawok 10y ago
      There are a fair amount of pingdom clones out there with free trials. Throw a few of them at a webpage that does select count(*) from users query, and you can get notified within a minute or two of a failure (for free).

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Why not use SAAS to launch faster, then replace SAAS with in-house after you've built market share?

by billmalarky 10y ago

Why not use SAAS to launch faster, then replace SAAS with in-house after you've built market share?

seibelj 10y ago
For many things building it yourself doesn't take that much longer than doing an integration with a SaaS product. Usually I need 1 or 2 features that are a small piece of a much larger product.
- brianwawok 10y ago
  Do you have concrete examples? Maybe this is getting too complex to use abstracts for.
  - seibelj 10y ago
    server monitoring to ensure that it responds and is running. I solved it with a cron job. Lots of other server monitoring software with bells and whistles, didn't need it
    - billmalarky 10y ago
      New relic sever monitoring my friend. It's free (emphasis because I was shocked when I looked up pricing) and takes all of 5 minutes to setup (no exaggeration, it uses yum for 99% of setup). https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/servers/new-relic-servers-linux/installation-configuration/servers-installation-redhat-centos https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/servers/new-relic-servers-lin...
      - brianwawok 10y ago
        How is it free when it says it is 10 cents per hour per host? There is a LITE plan but it seems like no alerting?
        billmalarky 10y ago
        Hmm, it looks like they have changed their pricing strategy. When I first signed up it was no strings attached free as a loss-leader to move you towards using their application monitoring products. https://blog.newrelic.com/2011/11/08/server-monitoring-is-here/ https://blog.newrelic.com/2011/11/08/server-monitoring-is-he... So far I appear to still be grandfathered into the the free server plan? Anyways, I guess you can disregard my original comment.
    - brianwawok 10y ago
      There are a fair amount of pingdom clones out there with free trials. Throw a few of them at a webpage that does select count(*) from users query, and you can get notified within a minute or two of a failure (for free).