[LinuxUsers] Pingdom Discount

[Jeff Lasman]

On Monday 13 April 2009 08:06 pm, Peter Manis wrote:

> FYI
> http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/04/09/easter-special-pingdom-75-discoun
>t/
>
> 75% off a year of Pingdom

The deal is good.  The service? I don't really see any way to tell, as 
the website appears (to me anyway) to be a combination of vague and 
fluff.

A while back Roger was in a position to help us with monitoring, and 
we're almost ready to offer monitoring as a service.  I'd certainly 
price it a lot lower.

For example: A few years ago we bought a small webhosting company; one 
of the things we did was take over their server.  They were owned by a 
rather well known site-monitoring company.  One of their monitoring 
services sites was left on that server.  They're no longer active on 
that server but they were for several years.  For _all_ their sites the 
maximum transit month was 969 mb.  For all their clients.  That's about 
1/500th of a T-1.  Divide 1.4mbps by 500, and you'll see how much 
impact all the monitoring for all their clients actually has on a 
server.

Jeff
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