Following on from my comment about the €/$ issue in the other reply thread, I would say that right now the service offering is very limited. I either need a lo

Following on from my comment about the €/$ issue in the other reply thread, I would say that right now the service offering is very limited. I either need a lot more than just polling (and use CloudKick, Monit, whatever) or if I only need polling because it's just a blog or whatever then I'm not going to be prepared to spend much/anything. I would work out what your bigger hosted competitors are doing, and find a niche they don't serve. OR, work out the pain points of running self-hosted monit and the like and offer something that isn't just a clone of the existing players. I would also add a "tour"/"Explore features" type page to explain what the service does - is it pinging, checking the TCP banner on a given port, is it making a request and fetching some content to check it against expected response? Etc. Explain why that is helpful to me. Don't assume I even know why I want monitoring! Show me what the alerts/reports look like.