[barryhunter]

Why should we trust this service? How do we know what ever system you have running the pings is reliable?

Nearly every free app I've seen like this has ended up getting pulled because the dev underestimates the resources needed to run it. Its easy to run when only a few apps being monitored, but not trivial at scale.

[Adirael]

As long as I'm not taking money for it you shouldn't trust it. It's not scalable without taking money from people. I can probably some hundred URLs with the resources I've got right now, but nothing serious.

Right now I only check from one location and there's probably some bugs in my code (which I'll work on fixing as soon as I find them!) but I'm planning to add a second location in order to have some redundancy.

What this thing does is simple enough to replicate in a bash script (it's just some curl and text matching) but today it was a slow day and things got out of hand a bit :)