Re:What creative things can you do with monitoring services?
by dcaylor on Thursday September 08, 2011 @04:10PM
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Thanks for taking the time to give that input. It's a valid point about how well we're communicating on the site. My blog post completely aside, I am still genuinely interested in the question I asked in the HN post.
(edit) Looked at your site, FAQ included, and you have a major misunderstanding what the most important feature of a monitoring service is. From your customer's perspective. It is not pricing, it is not contractlessness and it is not 1000 targets. It is your reliability. How many monitoring locations you have? How well distributed they are geographically? How would handle the case of one segment of the Internet getting detached from another? Etc, etc. To pull a URL (or a 1000) from some location on the Internet and match the response against a regexp - there is absolutely nothing to it, anyone can do it and that's why there is a metric ton of trivial monitoring services. Do tell how you are different, and not in miniscule details.