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by abarrettwilsdon 2418 days ago
Love the idea. Totally understand the business use case. Not in love with the pricing.

Feels like paying $49/mo is too high for a marketer to try out, but too low for the fact you can run an effective DDoS of some sites with it

I'd suggest changing the buckets - up to 10 monitored pages on free, a Silver Tier of maybe $29/mo of up to 100 pages + frequency of as low as hourly, a Gold Tier of maybe $99/mo of up to 1000 pages w/ minute frequency, Zapier integration, better support, etc, and then a call-for-quote tier like you already have

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Hey, thank you for the kind words!

Before being able to slice plans in these dimensions, I wanted to understand first which use cases are the most valuable, and what are the constraints that affect the value derived by the user from this service.

Nevertheless, your point hit home with me and I will definitely experiment with the impact of other plans on conversion rates.

Out of curiosity, are you a marketer (and/or do you have a use case for Monitoro) yourself? Also, were you personally prevented from subscribing to the service do to the current plan?

Would love to hear your thoughts, please write me at omar -at- monitoro.xyz

It looks like at most, you can update every 30 minutes. So you aren't going to be doing any DDoS'ing with this.
This is incorrect. You can update up to every minute.
A request every minute is a DDOS attack?
I am correcting the parent to my comment, which claimed the frequency is at most every 30 min.

As the creator of the service (which is not proposed as a DDoS service), I can confirm the fastest frequency is every minute.

For on premise deployments, Monitoro supports updating every second.

Using the service to explicitly harm a website is forbidden and the culprits will be banned, free and paid accounts alike.