My server just got to 100% iowait again. Luckily I have friends who are constantly visiting dumpr to see what's new, so I got a cellphone notification (ie- phone call) that the site isn't working.
Those manual human techniques, time for an upgrade!
I just signed up for pingdom. It's a pretty sweet service. They have tons of servers scattered all over the planet, and they ping your configured server every few minutes to see that it's alive. You define what alive means. For me, it's a special php on my server that returns OK or FAIL. In case of FAIL, I get an SMS to my cellphone, telling me to rush into the nearest public telephone booth and change to my Superman costume -> website is down.
One thing I noticed just now on pingdom, is that you can save $83.58 (yearly) easily! I'm not affiliated with them, I'm just bootstrapping like most of you guys. On the index page, if you start immediately with a Pingdom Basic package, it costs you $119.40 (yearly.) It's a good price for such a terrific service, but if I can have it for less, why not. I discovered by mistake, that if you start with a 30-days Free Basic plan, you get a 70% discount if you upgrade within that month. The new upgrade plan box shows a yearly use of pingdom will now cost $35.82, that's $83.58 in pure savings!
Now, that's an upgrade!
5 comments:
Pingdom looks like a great service, but looking at their site I'm a bit confused -- does "5 Checks" mean the service will only check my server 5 times a month and then charge me $0.50 per check after that?
I looked all over their site, but didn't see an answer to this question. I'd love to pay for a service like this, but not if it only offers 5 checks a month!
5 checks means you can define 5 different urls that make up a status whether you website is online or offline.
For example, one check tests http url, another check tests that smtp is working, and another tries to log in via ftp. So you have 3 checks here.
For each check, you define how many times a day you want to test. Default is once every 5 minutes, but you can also set it to once a minute (1440 tests a day!).
Pingdom rocks! :)
Having used pingdom for nearly a year now I can personally vouch for their service, and we too saved $83 by using the 30 free trial first. However, we're coming up for renewal in March, which will cost the full $119. Anyone got any ideas how to save again on renewal?
@bjblackmore: yeah, I can't think of what will happen when my year is over. The discount is higher than the actual price, so now it feels weird to pay over $100 for this service. If you find a trick, please let everybody know :)
$83.58?
I do not pay anything. Here is simple service:
http://downnotifier.appspot.com/
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