We invite our friends at WHT to sign up for Web site monitoring to help with a beta test of our new monitoring system. No gimmicks, no come-ons. . . just free stuff.

Sign up at http://www.linkstream.net/webpulse.htm and stay informed about your site!

Hey, you stole my sig! :)

Don't worry. I'll give it back when I'm done. :)

Free for how long?

Hey alchiba,

Do you have a link to unregister? I use a crappy host (*****) and I am getting e-mails every 5 mins now.

Regards
~CP


<EDIT> Thanks, Ed - for removing our site.</EDIT>

<EDIT2> The above problem was my fault! I entered a bad url for the site.</EDIT2>

[Edited by Chas on 04-10-2001 at 01:23 PM]

yeah, how long will this stay free? :)

yea what teck said!!!!
=P

Originally posted by node9
yea what teck said!!!!
=P

There's no plan to ever charge for this service. However, additional features to the basic service are being developed that would be offered at a nominal charge.

[Edited by alchiba on 04-11-2001 at 11:20 PM]

A few of you have asked what we do with the information that's collected on the WebPulse sign-up page. The answer: Nothing.

Well, not entirely nothing. The info is stored in a database in order to feed the monitoring engine with data, but otherwise it is kept quite confidential. We won't use it for any purpose other than monitoring activities. That's a promise.

A new sign-up page will be posted shortly with a privacy statement included.

Thanks for the tremendous response, everyone!

yeah, people are always concerned with their privacy. anyway, are you going to have neat looking charts like qwk.mon?

Originally posted by teck
yeah, people are always concerned with their privacy. anyway, are you going to have neat looking charts like qwk.mon?

you betcha!

cool. i dont suggest you rip qwkmon or netwhistle off but if you want to compete with them, try to take what they have an incorporate it into your services too. even building on it and making it better.

This is just what I came looking for. I didn't even have to search! :)

Thanks a bunch!

Brian

Originally posted by teck
cool. i dont suggest you rip qwkmon or netwhistle off . . .
No way. Don't want Travis chewing me a new one over this thing. It's not worth that.

BTW, new pages are up. Privacy statement open for public viewing.

I only chew people a new one when they deserve it... honest competition is good; keeps me on my toes. :)

Originally posted by alchiba
We invite our friends at WHT to sign up for Web site monitoring to help with a beta test of our new monitoring system. No gimmicks, no come-ons. . . just free stuff.

Sign up at http://www.linkstream.net/webpulse.htm and stay informed about your site!


I would like an option in which I can give up my timezone. Because I'm in Europe the time isn't correct when I get an email, so I'll never know when exactly my server is down.

Very good point about timezones. Currently, the time is expressed local to the server with a note that it's GMT -5, for example, leaving you to do the math. (vBulletin does this too.) I'll put this on the to-do list.

Ok, thanks for the offer of a free service but I've had enough !! I think you have a long way to go !

I could post a long list of suggestions but the main problem is getting an SMS message every 5 minutes. I presume that the timeout is too short. I've asked to be removed from your service since it blocking out real messages !!

I also presume that you've taken a good look at people like Netwhisltle or Red Alert ?

Good luck though, we could do with a free service since most of the big boys have moved over to charging.

Originally posted by Chips&Beans
. . . I could post a long list of suggestions but the main problem is getting an SMS message every 5 minutes. I presume that the timeout is too short. I've asked to be removed from your service since it blocking out real messages !!

I've receive three reports about this. The problem is the same as Chas' above, where the URL is entered incorrectly in the order form. New code will be implemented tonight which will correct this issue. Until then, please follow the instructions on the form.

I apologize for the nagging and erroneous alerts, but it does showcase WebPulse's persistence. ;)

Sounds like it is worth trying out. With network issues and all... it is a good time to help beta test this thing.

Tim L