Well Pingdom works at least
February 21st, 2008
I got my first two text messages today - one for this blog and one for www.patchspace.co.uk. I've got the polling resolution set to five minutes and to alert after 30 minutes' downtime, so I was pretty confident it was a power cut (and I was right). It's the second we've had lately, the last was in the middle of the night, before I subscribed to Pingdom.
I guess I was wrong in my last post - the real weak spot in my setup is being on a residential power grid. But then, it's not like I'm not hosting paid-for clients' sites from my home server, so the worst it does it make me look like a fool when nobody can access my blog.
Next step: buy a UPS. (A generator seems a bit excessive.)
February 21st, 2008 at 07:54 PM
I was affected by the power cut too... I had just pressed Cmd-S in TextMate to save my file and the disk was writing just as it happened.
Thankfully, it hasn't trashed my disk!
I'm thinking about getting a UPS too... Do you have any suggestions?