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I wrote Apex Ping (https://apex.sh/ping/ https://apex.sh/ping/) for those who want more features and/or don't want to waste the time to save a few bucks :D.

gingerlime 10y ago
Apex ping is great, but I'm still waiting for SMS / Twilio integration (hint, hint, nudge nudge) :)
- tjholowaychuk 10y ago
  :D I wish SMS wasn't so awkward, you're pretty much forced to have a credit system since it's so expensive. I'll probably still do it at some point. Makes it awkward for the customer as well if you have to babysit the credits
  - gingerlime 10y ago
    I suggested it before, but I think you can work around it: Let your customers give you their Twilio API key (with a big disclaimer that any charges by Twilio are not your responsibility...).
    - tjholowaychuk 10y ago
      If I can get costs down elsewhere I'll maybe just do "unlimited" on some of the accounts, where "unlimited" is some large arbitrary number haha.
      - cuu508 10y ago
        That would be the nicest user experience for your users, but it is a bit risky. You probably have a "reasonable number of notifications per user per month" in mind. As you sign up new users, you will sooner or later get some that will exceed that number by a lot--without a malicious intent.
  - nodesocket 10y ago
    You should just allow your users to provide their own Twilio API credentials and pass the costs to the user. You can even only make this option available on your plus and pro plans, increasing your ARPU[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_revenue_per_user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_revenue_per_user
- postila 10y ago
  I now use okmeter.io and really happy (especially for nginx and Postgres monitoring). They improve it constantly, and installation took just a couple of minutes. SMS/email/slack notifications work great (however, for slack, I needed to put a webhook).
paps 10y ago
Thanks for this. I would use it but you only do HTTP requests, right? It would be great if you could also do a true ICMP ping (like the name suggests!)

gingerlime 10y ago

Apex ping is great, but I'm still waiting for SMS / Twilio integration (hint, hint, nudge nudge) :)

tjholowaychuk 10y ago
:D I wish SMS wasn't so awkward, you're pretty much forced to have a credit system since it's so expensive. I'll probably still do it at some point. Makes it awkward for the customer as well if you have to babysit the credits
- gingerlime 10y ago
  I suggested it before, but I think you can work around it: Let your customers give you their Twilio API key (with a big disclaimer that any charges by Twilio are not your responsibility...).
  - tjholowaychuk 10y ago
    If I can get costs down elsewhere I'll maybe just do "unlimited" on some of the accounts, where "unlimited" is some large arbitrary number haha.
    - cuu508 10y ago
      That would be the nicest user experience for your users, but it is a bit risky. You probably have a "reasonable number of notifications per user per month" in mind. As you sign up new users, you will sooner or later get some that will exceed that number by a lot--without a malicious intent.
- nodesocket 10y ago
  You should just allow your users to provide their own Twilio API credentials and pass the costs to the user. You can even only make this option available on your plus and pro plans, increasing your ARPU[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_revenue_per_user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_revenue_per_user
postila 10y ago
I now use okmeter.io and really happy (especially for nginx and Postgres monitoring). They improve it constantly, and installation took just a couple of minutes. SMS/email/slack notifications work great (however, for slack, I needed to put a webhook).

paps 10y ago

Thanks for this. I would use it but you only do HTTP requests, right? It would be great if you could also do a true ICMP ping (like the name suggests!)