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.
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.
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!
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.
Assuming from the name this was a monitoring app:
1) 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).
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).
[+] [-] hahla|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] uggedal|14 years ago|reply
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
[+] [-] ck2|14 years ago|reply
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!
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[+] [-] sunnysideup|14 years ago|reply
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).
[+] [-] chrisfarms|14 years ago|reply
http://erlywarn.com/
[+] [-] rfelix2121|14 years ago|reply
We've been monitoring hundreds of thousands of sites for years, and our pricing is low.
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