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Would you be interested in yet another website monitor service?
I will soon be initiating a closed beta for a website monitoring service with alert system and the possibility to check your website atleast every minute. Will also give you daily uptime in %!
As for pricing I would allow 3 monitors for free per account.
To unlock more monitors one would have to pay a fee however I have no idea what price I will offering this at. Any ideas of what you would be willing to pay for that kind of service?
Also would you like an "unlimited monitor monthly plan" or a "one time fee per additional monitor" (3+) solution?
Keep in mind that you will be able to test the service thoroughlly with the 3 free monitors you get.
Kind regards,
Ympker
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How about monitoring VPSes, not only websites?
Keep in mind that you'll have people sign up with 10 different accounts to use 3 monitors on each. Determined folks will use proxies and email forwards and it'll be hard to catch. Not endorsing the behavior by any means, but you know as well as I that it will happen.
I like @NodePing for monitoring, and one thing I like is the diversity of monitors. For example, RBL checking, https expiration checking, looking at many different services (mail, ftp, etc.), being able to check for strings in web pages or changed pages, etc.
Might be adding this feature, too
@raindog308
That is a problem I am already adressing but have yet to find a solution. I guess ID identification is a bit much to ask acctually^^ Maybe phone validation or smth
Thanks for reply. I'll wait for it.
Well... New phone pre-paid card cost about €1. Where there's a will there's a way. You might also try with invition code.
Edit: Even ID verification might not be the best. You can easily find generator within seconds.
So we getting summer server monitoring to complement summer hosts now?
I would definitely not send in my ID for a monitoring service. Phone number, maybe, only if the service allows SMS notification. Even phone numbers can easily be obtained with many free apps. Maybe some sort of IP geo location comparasion with the physical address entered? Block all the ones with commercial IP and the ones with address mismatch too much. Another way is to check the IP of the monitored server, this will block shared hosting people, but you can introduce a cheap plan to fix that.
I don't think it's a huge problem, most people will pay (as long as it's a reasonable price) for the convenience of having everything under one dashboard instead of logging into multiple accounts. I know some people would not, but they are the type of people who would not pay for the service anyway.
If it costs more than uptimerobot (4.5$/m for 50 monitors), it won't be interesting.
I disagree. It wouldn't be interesting for some, but there are plenty of services (StatusCake, NodePing, etc.) that are higher-priced than uptimerobot and offer different/more features.
Nodeping isn't that more expensive if you really use 200 monitors. Statuscake is just bad.
I guess a paypal registration API wont do any good, huh (to minimize double accounts)?