Zotag Uptime
Its been a while since I’ve made a blog post… I haven’t had a lot of time because I’ve been busy with non-computer related things.
We (mostly Jimmy and Colum) are working on a new feature for Zotag called Zotag Uptime that will monitor your DNS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, and HTTPS servers and will give you reports on when they go down and when they go online. It will even send custom reports directly to your cell phone if requested. It is sort of like Service Uptime; actually it pretty much is that. You can also receive data output from Zotag Uptime in many different formats, including CVS and Excel spreadsheats, as well as charts and graphs informing you of your server’s uptime.
The backend will consist of multiple computers checking your servers, which in the future might be custom software I will create in C#. It is always reliable, and will have great customer service. When you talk to customer service, you will be speaking directly to one of the administrators instead of a lower level person for better help.
Not only do you get reports to the administrator of your server, you can also enable public stats to show others how long your server has been online and when it has gone down or offline. Image outputs are also available, giving a percentage of how long your site has been online.
Free? Duh! Most of the features Zotag provides and will provide in the future will be completely free. Paid services in Zotag Uptime include a more frequent server check and will allow you to check more servers than the given free account. The free account still lets you add many servers, but the paid is for a more business type plan.
But we need your help - you guys need to help get this started and tell your friends about this site. It has a great future and is easily expandable on the front and back ends. You can also help us by putting our banner’s on your site to tell people that you are using Zotag Uptime.
The site is online currently, but as of 8/18/08, registration is disabled due to construction of the site. If you would like to see it in it’s alpha stages, you can look here: Zotaguptime.com
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