[frossie]

>But at that price point, there are similar solutions available with much more coverage and features.

Exactly. I sit on a quarter-million dollar budget for hardware and services, but I still have a value-for-money filter, and this doesn't pass it. I might as well use this:

https://github.com/grahambell/crab

for free, or pay for a monitoring solution that is higher reliability, is inside my network, and doesn't charge me per cronjob. Even at the bulk plan, half a cent for a single cron job to send a single daily http request and only alert the one guy who has an iPhone seems... unreasonable. It doesn't scale for me.

By way of comparison, for that price I can get 20 private repos on Github, which consume oodles of space and networking resources.