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Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

#12

Post by vruiz »

joepie91_ wrote: post #11
vruiz wrote: post #4

btw, the ping engine is a Go app that pings each hosts in a separate goroutine. I might open source it in the future once the code has more tests and less shame.

There is no minimum quality requirement for an open-source release :)

haha, there is if I ever want to get another programming job! It's bad, trust me. The ping function is just a retouched version of Go's icmp test: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/ipraw_test....

and that's the _good_ part.

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

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Post by deathhand »

This is awesome but what is the motivation behind this? Why do you care to set up a server and pay for the (minimal) bandwidth that is needed for this service? Is this purely an act of goodwill? Do you hope that this will gain traction so that you can start charging for the service? Are you secretly harvesting clusters of IP addresses of HN readers?

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

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Post by vruiz »

tux wrote: post #13

Very nice. I wish more services would be as simple as thigs ^_^

thanks. Indeed the service totally lacks features and maybe reliability, but my whole intention was to find the lowest possible barrier of entry, which I too find very high in most online tools.

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

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Post by joepie91_ »

vruiz wrote: post #12
joepie91_ wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no minimum quality requirement for an open-source release :)

haha, there is if I ever want to get another programming job! It's bad, trust me. The ping function is just a retouched version of Go's icmp test: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/ipraw_test.... and that's the _good_ part.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. Everybody writes horrible duct-tape code at some point, and showing how you improved/refactored the code is a much nicer thing than showing how you supposedly magically got it right the first time :)

Re: Show HN: Simple monitoring service

#18

Post by tux »

nodesocket wrote: post #2

Nice job for releasing this. However, seems hard to compete with pingdom, who have exponentially more features and integrations and are relatively inexpensive. Kuddos on shipping!

Some one still uses pingdom ? LOL I find this "ping.gg" much more useful for me.
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