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Was it up?-service is now offline.

31 points by jrnkntl 15y ago

jrnkntl 15y ago
Anybody know of any decent, reasonably priced, alternatives?
- uggedal 15y ago
  Creator of wasitup here. http://pingdom.com http://pingdom.com has worked reliably for me.
  - MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
    I really liked wasitup, so thanks for providing the service for this long.
  - jokull 15y ago
    I relied on wasitup and would have paid for it. But I'm in the same position with Calepin. It's just too much work getting periodical payments running for a pet project. Waiting for Stripe EU. Rumor has it GreenQloud might be coming up with a payment solution in this space too though, with very competitive rates. Anyway -- signed up for pingdom.com and it looks solid enough.
- sunnysideup 15y ago
  http://alertfox.com/free-website-monitoring/ http://alertfox.com/free-website-monitoring/ (free 5-min monitoring) Disclosure: I am the founder (on the other hand, this means I can assure you that the free plan is really free and we have no plans to change that).
- tlianza 15y ago
  Assuming from the name this was a monitoring app: 1) http://mon.itor.us/ http://mon.itor.us/ has a free version, and it's decent but very infrequent (ex. 30 minutes) 2) NewRelic RPM has ping-based monitoring included in even their free plan (and it's ping interval is much more agressive).
- chrisfarms 15y ago
  We started a project a few months ago to provide a similar simple monitoring/uptime service. http://erlywarn.com/ http://erlywarn.com/
dreur 15y ago
What would be a cost efficient way of doing the same? Any ideas?
dekken_ 15y ago
relase?
kayluhb 15y ago
This is a big bummer to me. I asked Eivind if he is going to open source the site, and he said he will try, but he needs to write documentation as well as clean up the current release. Hopefully that will happen sooner than later. wasitup was so much easier to sign up for than any other service I've used.
hahla 15y ago
Unfortunately it seems like its become the "it" thing to close down web services. I don't understand why people don't opt to sell the sites instead? It might not make you rich, but hopefully you'll find the right buyer that will keep it alive for all of your current visitors. Website buying and selling has become very easy over the years. List it yourself on a marketplace or if that seems like a daunting task there are numerous website brokers who would be glad to find the right buyer for you.
- uggedal 15y ago
  Selling is not an option for me. This service was offered for free for over 2 years[1]. If you rely on free services things like this happen all the time. As I've mentioned elsewhere: if time permits I'll have a go at re-launching with a new back-end and subscriptions (hopefully Stripe will be available in Europe soon) for the most heavy users. [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886875 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886875
  - keltex 15y ago
    I think you might be making a mistake taking the service offline and waiting until you re-launch it. Every day it's offline you're going to be bleeding users and by the time you relaunch you'll be starting from ground zero. Why don't you do something like reach out to hacker news users. I'm sure there's some aspiring biz dev types with a little bit of capital (sounds like you only need a couple hundred dollars a month to keep it operating) to invest some time and money into your business. Then you have a little time to pivot into a money-making version of your site... fremium of whatever model makes sense. But right now you have one of the toughest things to get... a bunch of users. (myself included) Don't squander them!
  - icey 15y ago
    I've been a wasitup user since your first announcement. Thank you for making it; it has been perfect for my use case (keeping an eye on servers that I don't touch very frequently). As a casual user, I would have paid money if you had an option to watch 1-5 servers. Good luck with a relaunch, if that's what you decide to do. (And good luck with whatever else you decide to work on)
swah 15y ago
Can't this be run from a 4 usd/mo vps?
- uggedal 15y ago
  More like 9 20 USD/mo VPSes for the amount of sites I had and frequency of checking (and double-checking on failure). Some optimizations could have been done with regards to the implementation (moving from Python to Go/C which I have a POC of).
  - ubercore 15y ago
    Any possibility of open-sourcing?
    - uggedal 15y ago
      First I'd like to try re-release with a new architecture. If that does not pan out I'd be open to releasing the source.
preinheimer 15y ago
We're not offering a window to the past but: http://wheresitup.com/ http://wheresitup.com/ has some nice geo features.
deleted 15y ago
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ck2 15y ago
Wrote my own website monitor in a couple hours http://i.imgur.com/oQh8V.png http://i.imgur.com/oQh8V.png Not that hard to do if you have access to multiple servers to monitor each other, it's a good coding exercise. Just use curl and grab all the curl_getinfo results, including the dns resolve time to the firstbyte time to the page size and page transfer speed/time. Log it, graph it, and if you get a bad result, email yourself an alert. Don't forget to exclude the polling server from your stats!
rfelix2121 15y ago
Also check out http://aremysitesup.com http://aremysitesup.com We've been monitoring hundreds of thousands of sites for years, and our pricing is low.

31 points by jrnkntl 15y ago

jrnkntl 15y ago

Anybody know of any decent, reasonably priced, alternatives?

uggedal 15y ago
Creator of wasitup here. http://pingdom.com http://pingdom.com has worked reliably for me.
- MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
  I really liked wasitup, so thanks for providing the service for this long.
- jokull 15y ago
  I relied on wasitup and would have paid for it. But I'm in the same position with Calepin. It's just too much work getting periodical payments running for a pet project. Waiting for Stripe EU. Rumor has it GreenQloud might be coming up with a payment solution in this space too though, with very competitive rates. Anyway -- signed up for pingdom.com and it looks solid enough.
sunnysideup 15y ago
http://alertfox.com/free-website-monitoring/ http://alertfox.com/free-website-monitoring/ (free 5-min monitoring) Disclosure: I am the founder (on the other hand, this means I can assure you that the free plan is really free and we have no plans to change that).
tlianza 15y ago
Assuming from the name this was a monitoring app: 1) http://mon.itor.us/ http://mon.itor.us/ has a free version, and it's decent but very infrequent (ex. 30 minutes) 2) NewRelic RPM has ping-based monitoring included in even their free plan (and it's ping interval is much more agressive).
chrisfarms 15y ago
We started a project a few months ago to provide a similar simple monitoring/uptime service. http://erlywarn.com/ http://erlywarn.com/

dreur 15y ago

What would be a cost efficient way of doing the same? Any ideas?

dekken_ 15y ago

relase?

kayluhb 15y ago

This is a big bummer to me. I asked Eivind if he is going to open source the site, and he said he will try, but he needs to write documentation as well as clean up the current release. Hopefully that will happen sooner than later. wasitup was so much easier to sign up for than any other service I've used.

hahla 15y ago

Unfortunately it seems like its become the "it" thing to close down web services. I don't understand why people don't opt to sell the sites instead? It might not make you rich, but hopefully you'll find the right buyer that will keep it alive for all of your current visitors. Website buying and selling has become very easy over the years. List it yourself on a marketplace or if that seems like a daunting task there are numerous website brokers who would be glad to find the right buyer for you.

uggedal 15y ago
Selling is not an option for me. This service was offered for free for over 2 years[1]. If you rely on free services things like this happen all the time. As I've mentioned elsewhere: if time permits I'll have a go at re-launching with a new back-end and subscriptions (hopefully Stripe will be available in Europe soon) for the most heavy users. [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886875 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886875
- keltex 15y ago
  I think you might be making a mistake taking the service offline and waiting until you re-launch it. Every day it's offline you're going to be bleeding users and by the time you relaunch you'll be starting from ground zero. Why don't you do something like reach out to hacker news users. I'm sure there's some aspiring biz dev types with a little bit of capital (sounds like you only need a couple hundred dollars a month to keep it operating) to invest some time and money into your business. Then you have a little time to pivot into a money-making version of your site... fremium of whatever model makes sense. But right now you have one of the toughest things to get... a bunch of users. (myself included) Don't squander them!
- icey 15y ago
  I've been a wasitup user since your first announcement. Thank you for making it; it has been perfect for my use case (keeping an eye on servers that I don't touch very frequently). As a casual user, I would have paid money if you had an option to watch 1-5 servers. Good luck with a relaunch, if that's what you decide to do. (And good luck with whatever else you decide to work on)

swah 15y ago

Can't this be run from a 4 usd/mo vps?

uggedal 15y ago
More like 9 20 USD/mo VPSes for the amount of sites I had and frequency of checking (and double-checking on failure). Some optimizations could have been done with regards to the implementation (moving from Python to Go/C which I have a POC of).
- ubercore 15y ago
  Any possibility of open-sourcing?
  - uggedal 15y ago
    First I'd like to try re-release with a new architecture. If that does not pan out I'd be open to releasing the source.

preinheimer 15y ago

We're not offering a window to the past but: http://wheresitup.com/ http://wheresitup.com/ has some nice geo features.

deleted 15y ago

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ck2 15y ago

Wrote my own website monitor in a couple hours http://i.imgur.com/oQh8V.png http://i.imgur.com/oQh8V.png Not that hard to do if you have access to multiple servers to monitor each other, it's a good coding exercise. Just use curl and grab all the curl_getinfo results, including the dns resolve time to the firstbyte time to the page size and page transfer speed/time. Log it, graph it, and if you get a bad result, email yourself an alert. Don't forget to exclude the polling server from your stats!

rfelix2121 15y ago

Also check out http://aremysitesup.com http://aremysitesup.com We've been monitoring hundreds of thousands of sites for years, and our pricing is low.