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by ynniv 5985 days ago
Gah... I just got the email announcing Linode and SMS support, jumped up and down, visited the site... and found the cheapest plan to be $100/mo.

Sorry guys. I much prefer your service (assuming SMS + Linode), but thats way to expensive. Pingdom FTW. :(
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mattdennewitz 5985 days ago
to be fair, pingdom isn't going to supply you with details about cpu, bandwidth, disk, memory, etc usage for a multi-node deployment - they'll just tell you when its down.

i do think the prices are high, and you could certainly go it alone w/ nagios et al, but cloudkick offers a capable and detailed monitoring infrastructure that plugs into many outlets out-of-box. thats pretty cool if you ask me.

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ynniv 5985 days ago
Yes, I am very excited about the new features, but they've priced themselves well outside what I'm willing to pay. If the host isn't down, I can ask nagios for free. If it is down, Pingdom (even the free version) will send me an SMS. There may be a target market for their price point, but I'm not part of it.
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