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Pingdom - use it on quite a number of projects and they keep adding more data checks around the world making it even better to triangulate back to where and why

by EGF 17y ago

Pingdom - use it on quite a number of projects and they keep adding more data checks around the world making it even better to triangulate back to where and why people are having problems.

petervandijck 17y ago
pingdom too. Mostly for response times, thaat's much more interesting to me than uptime.
spencerfry 17y ago
We use Pingdom also.
alecco 17y ago
Priced at 2x-4x of a web hosting plan? No alternate DNS management? Crazy.
- bentlegen 17y ago
  $9.95/mo is 2x-4x the price of a web hosting plan? There's also a free plan if you're just monitoring one website.
  - alecco 17y ago
    If you pre-pay 3 months or a year a good web hosting costs $4.5-7/month, with cronjobs, and plenty of space where you can store regular offsite backups. An almost trivial one-liner with curl can do this kind of service.
    - apsurd 17y ago
      but this is HN, not godaddy user forums.
      - alecco 17y ago
        Exactly. Setting up a cronjob to monitor and test your web application (be it Cloud, VPS, or dedicated) should be something everybody here can do with eyes closed or at least ask. Paying a pinger service sounds idiotic unless I'm missing something from that service. I'm surprised it even exists.
    - moe 17y ago
      If your site is small enough to run on a $7 webhosting plan then you probably don't need monitoring.
      - alecco 17y ago
        No, I don't mean to run your site on a web hosting. The thread topic was a monitoring service that pings a website and alerts you charging a ridiculous amount, in my opinion, for an extremely simple service to deploy SEPARATELY on a web hosting plan.
        moe 17y ago
        Well, if that amount seems ridiculous to you then you're looking at the wrong figure. Have you considered what it costs to have an engineer sit down and write a proper monitoring and alerting system? Even a small one, i.e. the proverbial curl-loop? That is the figure you should be looking at because even if you assume only a single day of work you can already buy many months of pingdom service for the same money. Moreover even the smallest monitoring utility takes quite a bit more effort than a single day once you take SMS alerts with backoff (you don't want to spam, right?), scheduled downtimes and overall babysitting into account. Been there, done that. So, look at the big picture and those $10 bucks suddenly become a no-brainer.

by EGF 17y ago

Pingdom - use it on quite a number of projects and they keep adding more data checks around the world making it even better to triangulate back to where and why people are having problems.

petervandijck 17y ago

pingdom too. Mostly for response times, thaat's much more interesting to me than uptime.

spencerfry 17y ago

We use Pingdom also.

alecco 17y ago

Priced at 2x-4x of a web hosting plan? No alternate DNS management? Crazy.

bentlegen 17y ago
$9.95/mo is 2x-4x the price of a web hosting plan? There's also a free plan if you're just monitoring one website.
- alecco 17y ago
  If you pre-pay 3 months or a year a good web hosting costs $4.5-7/month, with cronjobs, and plenty of space where you can store regular offsite backups. An almost trivial one-liner with curl can do this kind of service.
  - apsurd 17y ago
    but this is HN, not godaddy user forums.
    - alecco 17y ago
      Exactly. Setting up a cronjob to monitor and test your web application (be it Cloud, VPS, or dedicated) should be something everybody here can do with eyes closed or at least ask. Paying a pinger service sounds idiotic unless I'm missing something from that service. I'm surprised it even exists.
  - moe 17y ago
    If your site is small enough to run on a $7 webhosting plan then you probably don't need monitoring.
    - alecco 17y ago
      No, I don't mean to run your site on a web hosting. The thread topic was a monitoring service that pings a website and alerts you charging a ridiculous amount, in my opinion, for an extremely simple service to deploy SEPARATELY on a web hosting plan.
      - moe 17y ago
        Well, if that amount seems ridiculous to you then you're looking at the wrong figure. Have you considered what it costs to have an engineer sit down and write a proper monitoring and alerting system? Even a small one, i.e. the proverbial curl-loop? That is the figure you should be looking at because even if you assume only a single day of work you can already buy many months of pingdom service for the same money. Moreover even the smallest monitoring utility takes quite a bit more effort than a single day once you take SMS alerts with backoff (you don't want to spam, right?), scheduled downtimes and overall babysitting into account. Been there, done that. So, look at the big picture and those $10 bucks suddenly become a no-brainer.