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Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

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Post by koliber »

CodeWriter23 wrote: post #51

Does this tell me more than just cron is running on my site? Like what if my HTTP server has choked?

It tells you cron is running. It tells you your junior dev did not accidentally reconfigure your cron to go once a week rather than once an hour. It tells you that the program that cron starts, which performs a small suite of diagnostics on your website, is able to do them regularly. It tells you that the network at your remote office can reach the outside world.

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

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Post by ra »

postmortembees wrote: post #12

Neat! I definitely read the name as "Peeing" and was confused. (Most people parse words using the first few letters and last few letters when they scan.) The blurb on the site was difficult for me to parse, mentally. It's wordy and awkward with the negative in there: > Receive an HTTP request whenever your heartbeat endpoint is not pinged for a configured interval of your choice. "Get POSTed when your endpoint stops…

Now I can't unsee "peeing"

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

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Post by berkle4455 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #25

So you are basically making a dead man's switch, it seems [0]. However, why should I send requests to you rather than you pinging me? It saves on your server costs, sure, but it can be more of a hassle for me as the developer when I just want to know if my service is up. And definitely change your name, the first thing I though of was pee or peeing, not a good connection to have in people's minds. [0] https://en.wiki…

because that’s how pingdom works, and why recreate exactly what they do?

This makes it easy for internal services that maybe you don’t want to setup a publicly accessible health check ingress, would be my guess.

Re: Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler

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Post by leesalminen »

vram22 wrote: post #49
talboren wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wdyt about gnip (reversed ping) as an alternative to peeng?

There was a site/service called gnip. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnip

Man gnip was wild. I remember getting access to the Twitter firehouse for a while through this service. We built some really useful stuff with this.
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