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.)
A few notes about my infrastructure
February 20th, 2008
As part of starting my own business I've decided it's about time I get some essentials done right - namely backups, uptime monitoring, DNS hosting and email hosting. I'll also detail some of the other software and hardware I use. Nothing ground-breaking - but some of these services may be new and/or useful to my readers (24 now!!!).
UPDATE: Many Ayromlou wrote a blog post about setting Google Apps up with easyDNS, which is exactly what I've done.
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