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Looks nice! However, a couple of points: * The £1/site/month is too low. I won't trust you to be able to rent and manage a network of decent machines for that
by relix 15y ago
Looks nice!
However, a couple of points:
* The £1/site/month is too low. I won't trust you to be able to rent and manage a network of decent machines for that price point, so I wouldn't trust your results. You're also going to eat costs trying to support cheap one-site-owners. Try a price point like "£5 for 5 sites a month!" so that even if you have one site, you pay at least £5 a month.
* Show me your (hopefully) geographically dispersed network. Like a map showing where your machines are with fancy lines and all that. I want to know you know what you're doing and at the very least you should have a network of independent machines, geographically spread. Tell me you're using independent datacenters/cloud hosting for maximum availability.
* I don't know the current state of Go, but as a potential customer I'm questioning the logic of using an experimental language (as I see it) for an uptime monitoring system. Presumably you want to have the highest uptime as possible, and maybe Go interpreters/compilers have bugs that will affect you. I would not advertise the fact you're using Go.
* Link me to a dashboard where I can see the statusses of your service, and any maintenance messages you might have had. This might strike you as odd, but I would trust you more if you had a public page where you can show past incidents and how you resolved them, or at least a table full of green lights showing all your stuff is up. Some things can fail (without losing uptime), and I'd like to see you being open about it.
I understand you're just beginning so cherry pick from this comment what you like :) Either way it's a nice looking landing page.
- chrisfarms 15y agoRE price. I found the "plans" where you pay for things you didn't need rather off-putting from other services, especially in our pay-for-what-you-eat CPU/bandwidth/etc "cloud" (cringe) world. Higher price -> trust is a tricky one. RE network & dashboard: Good plan. It does seem silly not to show we are using it too. RE go; go is really not experimental anymore, and has been an excellent choice for this kind of concurrent problem. We had something similar in Erlang (internally) and this has been so much faster to build and is much simpler. I get your point and wouldn't normally mention it, but if anyone would be interested it's here :) Thanks for your feedback.
- bwooce 15y agoYou're using Go...but...it's ERLywarn. So how can it possibly be written in anything but Erlang. See ErlyWeb, Erlware, etc. I'm sorry but the name of your product needs to change to Gowarn. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them. (Best of luck, looks good and not overpriced like some freemium alternatives)