ping.gg
Infrastructure
uptime monitoring
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
11 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 2 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, low barrier to entry signup via one HTTP GET
From 3 comments
I like the fact your signup boils down to one HTTP GET and a verification email. That's some revolutionary stuff.
hcarvalhoalves on HNVery nice. I wish more services would be as simple as thigs ^_^
tux on HNthanks. Indeed the service totally lacks features and maybe reliability, but my whole intention was to find the lowest possible barrier of entry, which I too find very high in…
vruiz on HN
Useful and easy to set up
From 2 comments
This is very useful, thanks for hosting it. Awesome website too, and super easy to set up.
mashlol on HNI love this kind of tool, simple and useful. Extra points for leading with a commandline example.
Procrastes on HN
Objections
Pinging every 5 seconds may get blocked and burden the network
From 2 comments
Maybe you should slow down the ping interval a bit, because there is no authentication and someone might run it on a big number of IPs of the same network class, and that will…
ivanhoe on HNChecking every 5 seconds...! You will probably get blocked by a firewall.... Every 5 minutes is more than fine for a free service (and do future upgrades for every 1 min or…
fuzzfree on HN
Anyone who knows a confirmed email can add alerts to it
From 1 comment
Does this mean if I set up an alert for a server anyone can then add me to any number of alerts without further confirmation?
Kliment on HN
Alert emails have broken localhost links
From 1 comment
The links in your sent emails appear to be broken. All URL's to deactivate and pause alerts are pointing to localhost.
Injunire on HN
Requests
Open source the code
From 3 comments
I would also like to see it open. I'd love to host something like this for my own networks which are not internet reachable.
mdewinter on HNWho cares just open source it. People who are interested might even send you some pull requests
kbar13 on HNCongrats on shipping! I wrote a software like this, tried to ship it but I failed. Now it's open-source for everyone. If you're interested, grab it.…
rafaqueque on HN
Add HTTP checks
From 1 comment
How to remove alerts? BTW, +1 to HTTP support, a must-have.
mcklaw on HN
Paid plans
From 1 comment
Congrats on shipping. I run a very different kind of monitoring service (alerts when your cron jobs and other scheduled tasks don't run or take too long, see my profile for…
encoderer on HN
Questions
How to stop or remove alerts
From 3 comments
How to remove alerts? BTW, +1 to HTTP support, a must-have.
mcklaw on HNHow to stop?
motyar on HNThere's a 'remove alert' link in the activation email.
walrus on HN
Why not blacklist local IP ranges
From 1 comment
Why not just blacklist local-only IP ranges?
nacs on HN
Alternatives named
Pingdom
From 2 comments
Nice job for releasing this. However, seems hard to compete with pingdom, who have exponentially more features and integrations and are relatively inexpensive. Kuddos on shipping!
nodesocket on HN> seems hard to compete with pingdom As a DevOps, I'd like to disagree with this. Pingdom previously was a joy to work with. Now that they're attempting to bring in PagerDuty-esq…
toomuchtodo on HN
Webmon
From 1 comment
I created https://webmon.com . I'd love to hear your feedback on it since you were a Pingdom customer.
halayli on HN
Monitority
From 1 comment
In come... http://monitority.com published on betalist, free +sms and email
d12b on HN