Hi all,

[Updated!]

As promised, here are the special "WHT Edition" prices for QWK.Mon host monitoring service:

WHT Special 1:
$8.00 monthly
15 minute check intervals
2 hosts
Phone access enabled

WHT Special 2:
$14.00 monthly
15 minute check intervals
4 hosts
Phone access enabled

WHT Special 3:
$25.00 monthly
10 minute check intervals
8 hosts
Phone access enabled


Please come in on this link for these specials to be activated:

http://209.210.154.7?offercode=wht

Note that to get these specials, you need to sign up for premium service in the same session - in other words, if you close your browser and come back later, it won't work. If you need to go back and do it later, come in through this link again.

Specials can be signed up for until the end of the month, so get 'em while they're hot.

All you early adopters - thanks again for your help... couldn't have done it without you. Enjoy!

[Edited by Travis on 03-21-2001 at 01:02 AM]

Will there be any free services?

yes... 60 minutes interval and only one server/host though... I see that I no longer have this 15 min interval monitoring, but 60 mins... :(

cheers,
:beer:

Dektong:

Well, sorry, but if a quicker monitoring interval or more hosts are supported on the free service, what reason would anyone have to move to the paid service? Someone has to pay the bills... this service isn't cheap to provide, and that's not even counting the hundreds of hours it took to develop the software.

Travis, of course... understanable. Actually I still like having this service for free... Just complaining a bit :) :)

cheers,
:beer:

It shouted that it wanted $$$ from me, so I deleted my hosts... boo hoo... On my way to another free service...

Thanks for the services you have provided todate. The graphs are nice.

How about bumping the hosts allowed to be monitored on each plan to a little more than what they are now. Alot of us run 3 hosts, the main machine and 2 DNS servers. Having special #1 set to 3 hosts would be great :) You can do the same for the others. If not, then just ignore this post :(

Dylan: sorry to hear you don't feel the investment of time and money that's been put into QWK.Mon is worth compensating.

Teck: I'll think about bumping the plans around a little bit. Still, I don't know of anybody but NetMechanic that's even in the same price range, and QWK.Mon offers features NetMechanic doesn't.

I think moving the first up to 3 would be great idea. Then Plan 2 to 6 and plan 3 to 9. Also have a plan for larer networks as well as you don't want to miss out on them. I mean how much bandwitch can a ping take. I am think about using it soon but i don't think you should try ot be clse with the likes of NetMechanic. Blow them out the water in price and what you give and you will do much better.

Just my 2 cents. :)

It's actually not so much bandwidth, but the design of ethernet, that affect how many hosts can be monitored from a machine.

An average of 6-8 packets have to travel back and forth to check an HTTP host. Ethernet has a frame size of 1500 bytes, so even if less than that is being transmitted, it has to be put in a whole frame. So, it's not so much bandwidth as just the maximum packet rate of the equipment in use.

There is basically one limiting factor in measuring QWK.Mon service out - the number of hosts checked per minute. I can adjust plans to allow more hosts if the monitoring interval is reduced somewhat. Any comments on that?

How about a compromise... check out the revised plan offerings at the top of the post. :)

Better?

You say phone access is available by toll free, yet we have to pay 35 cents a minute? Or am I not reading it right.

Also, is the wholesale system designed to allow hosts to resell this service to thier customers?

Do you have any "mid leve' wholesale systems. So we can start off small, having this be an extra option/fee.

A toll-free *number*. This way, you can dial from anywhere without having to worry about being able to dial long-distance. It costs us money to have people dial in on the number, so that cost has to be passed on. It's 35 cents flat-rate per call.

The wholesale system is designed for just that, yes. There is a minimum of $150/month worth of monitoring, just to cover the ongoing cost of all the customization we do for each wholesale customer.

Just interface customization or can there be more?

Also, I see there are 2 wholesale programs, whats the diff?

Also, you said that the 35 cents is a flat fee? so I could call in and stay on for ilke 5 minutes? What about wholesale pricing? Thats not flat is it?

And is there a way to limit user's accesibility (wholesale resold) and get reports of wholesale resold activity?

Haha, I should probably be emailing you all this but this seems a bit faster. :)

Appearance customization is usually the limit of it, but we can talk about other things. But if you want functionality not present now, you'd either need to pay for the development, or have enough clients to make it possible for me to absorb the cost of developing the features.

The two wholesale programs differ in volume. One is intended for clients with greater than 1000 ports in volume, and one for less than 1000.

As for telephone calls - you would have a very difficult time staying on for more than a minute. With the current system, you're read the information you need, and then it hangs up on you. :) The "extra minutes" pricing schedule is just to future-proof things if more interactivity is added to calls.

Wholesale clients can have custom plans set up for their clients, if that's what you mean. And yes, reports can be generated on user activity, since that's necessary for billing purposes anyway.

As for e-mailing me... maybe, but this information is probably of interest to some other providers.