My main complaint with cloudkick has always been the wide price gap between the free account and the first paid version. I would have paid for their agent based service for a few of my projects but at $99 a month for the cheapest version, it would have cost over 5x what the server it was monitoring cost.
I think they would have grown much faster with a smoother price curve. Make a plan with 2 or 3 servers of full monitoring for $30 a month to grab the low end of the market when people are just starting and putting in the foundational pieces of their technology stack.
Overall though, they're really good. They seem to have done plenty well anyway. Congratulations.
I saw you promoting this before and to be frank I looked at it and didn't understand what it would be good for. I thought, "Oh, ok so it's like a cron task that's easier to manage but you pay for" and then filed it away deep in my brain under "Maybe someday I'll need that"
Maybe I'm mistaken but I don't see how it is even remotely similar to what these monitoring services provide. Can you explain that better?
I laughed at the name, but how will someone justify that line item in their engineering budget at a larger company? Catchy though, I'll definitely remember it.
I saw this and I didn't understand what it is for or how it works.
If it runs on your server then how does it monitor my application? Is there an agent or something? Why is it better than running cron on (say) Google App Engine?
If it runs on my server, then exactly why would I want it? I think I can live with running every 5 minutes or 20 seconds instead of 7 minutes or 17 seconds.
So.. I just don't get it? Where can I read more (without registering)?
I think they would have grown much faster with a smoother price curve. Make a plan with 2 or 3 servers of full monitoring for $30 a month to grab the low end of the market when people are just starting and putting in the foundational pieces of their technology stack.
Overall though, they're really good. They seem to have done plenty well anyway. Congratulations.