Tell HN: Four (hopefully) unique and useful start-up tips

Re:Tell HN: Four (hopefully) unique and useful start-up tips by wvl on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @03:18PM (#959886)

  Start checking your stats only once a day, at most. 
  That way, you’ll be alerted to any potentially significant 
  changes (i.e. your ecommerce engine is down)

I agree with this advice, however I would sincerely hope that it doesn't take reviewing your stats at the end of the day to notice that your ecommerce engine is down! Monitoring should be in place to achieve this.

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Re:Tell HN: Four (hopefully) unique and useful start-up tips by aneesh on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @11:39PM (#960628)

True story I heard from some Amazon engineers.

Amazon doesn't (directly) monitor whether their servers are up. They just look at the revenue graph in real-time, and if there's a noticeable dip, something's wrong.

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Re:Tell HN: Four (hopefully) unique and useful start-up tips by apu on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:25AM (#960747)

Right, although they don't have to manually look at this -- they have many sophisticated monitors in place that immediately notify engineers if things are not in normal ranges.

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Re:Tell HN: Four (hopefully) unique and useful start-up tips by acangiano on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @10:44PM (#960579)

> Monitoring should be in place to achieve this.

For uptime monitoring, I recommend site24x7.com. Excellent, reliable service. I tried alternatives, including Pingdom, and they were rather disappointing.

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