adrienjarthon

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   by adrienjarthon 2y ago

   I am running another "hobbit software" (just discovered the term) for the past 12 years, and I 100% agree with Pēteri and everything he said in this blog post!
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   by adrienjarthon 3y ago

   Thank you
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   by adrienjarthon 3y ago

   Thanks for this feedback, I actually changed this because some of my clients complained of the opposite, that the link was a bit too "dim" and didn't look like the the obvious Call To Action in the email. But it's all ve
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   by adrienjarthon 3y ago

   I could but I don't want to, it's even more of a dark pattern and looks way too "spammish" IMO. I don't want my users to find this in their email and think that I'm trying to trick their system. Also I wouldn&#
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   by adrienjarthon 3y ago

   100% agree, I also hate that I had to do this.
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   by adrienjarthon 3y ago

   Hi, Adrien here author of this article (and of updown.io). That is true and I actually hesited to write the article for this reason, because it could make the spammer life easier. But after seing some of the legacy and nonsense in here I th
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   by adrienjarthon 3y ago

   Very nice tip, works quite naturaly in many contexts. Although familiar with HSL I've never though a 180deg turn was going to fix colors.
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   by adrienjarthon 4y ago

   Quick update here: Vultr is still ignoring us, and Cloudflare said to one of my clients: "some IPv6 traffic from Vultr was being dropped by a DDoS mitigation system as we were receiving malicious traffic from Vultr. The issue has since
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   by adrienjarthon 4y ago

   adrien from updown.io here. Sorry about this, I still don't have any answer or explanation from Vultr or CloudFlare at this point. Most likely cause IMO is that CloudFlare (accidentally?) blocked one or many big ranges of IPs belonging
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    by adrienjarthon 4y ago

    In my case (updown.io), I use a "scheduler" process (one per machine) which runs the following loop: every 5 seconds it fetches the checks that needs to execute in the next 5 seconds, ordered by time of run ascending. Then it iter
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    by adrienjarthon 7y ago

    That's pretty much it, my customers are people who have websites and want to be the first to know when there's an issue on it so they can fix it, in which case a SaaS solution is usually better than some internal tools because it
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    by adrienjarthon 7y ago

    It is quite cheap indeed, I try to keep a fair pricing :)
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    by adrienjarthon 7y ago

    Thanks <3
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    by adrienjarthon 7y ago

    Probably half of the time (~2-3h per week) is spent answering questions/requests from clients or helping them diagnose downtime. I try to improve the product to make sure my clients don't need me so that when they do I can help th
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    by adrienjarthon 7y ago

    Sounds great ;) let me know if you have any question.
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    by adrienjarthon 7y ago

    I kept only a small part, I sold most of them right away as there were already over-valued to me ^^
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    by adrienjarthon 7y ago

    Thanks Haha, less than 1% now that the trend is over, when I added it (2014) it was around 5%.
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    by adrienjarthon 7y ago

    I run https://updown.io since 2012, a website monitoring service I created. I'm working about 5-10 hours per week on it. It makes about $6,000 per month and is still growing linearly. I also keep a full-time job alongside f
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    by adrienjarthon 8y ago

    Thank you <3
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    by adrienjarthon 9y ago

    Yeah for a DNS server returning wrong results is basically a downtime to me
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    by adrienjarthon 9y ago

    Indeed I noticed the same issue for my customers using .io domains (and me unfortunately): https://twitter.com/updownio/status/910508435720065024 Seems to be getting better now. High TTL helps but mostly if it was
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    by adrienjarthon 10y ago

    Yes indeed, that's what I noticed too and if I can do it with existing sources, just presenting them in a cleaner way that's definitely what I will do. I don't want to re-invent the wheel, just do as much as I can to make the
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    by adrienjarthon 10y ago

    Oh sweet, thanks a lot benzimmer & kirankn!
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    by adrienjarthon 10y ago

    Yes, I already had a quick look and there's a lot of interesting stuff here, I'll definitely need it. Thanks!
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    Ask HN: Can you help me monitor the Internet?

    8 points by adrienjarthon 10y ago|7 comments
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    by adrienjarthon 12y ago

    Now fixed, only requires email read-only.
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    by adrienjarthon 12y ago

    Welcome aboard!
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    by adrienjarthon 12y ago

    Thank you! DataSnitch looks cheap and simple too, like it ;)
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    by adrienjarthon 12y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, that's on the long-term roadmap ^^, you can totally add several email address though (with the CC field)
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    by adrienjarthon 12y ago

    That's a mistake, we don't need more than read-only access to your email, I'll fix this soon, thanks !