If your server crashes at 3 a.m., will you know about it? If you only get alerts via SMS or email, you might not wake up and your server could be down for hours. Husband-and-wife team Roger and Jessica Stewart wanted to fix that, so they started Alertyx, a server-monitoring service that will also call you and tell you what broke, right when it happens. They’ll even file a ticket with your service provider for you, so you can get back up and running faster.
The Stewarts say they designed Alertyx from the ground up to meet their needs, because nothing else out there was. The service provides both TCP and UDP monitoring, with free calling alerts in 22 countries. The free account limits alerts to one per 6-hour period, while the premium account offers calling alerts anywhere in the world, with unlimited phone, SMS and email notifications so you and your whole team will know when your server goes down. The premium account doesn’t have a premium price, though; alerts are just 25 cents each. The first 100 GigaOM readers who sign up for an account will get premium service free for a month: Enter coupon code “GIGAOM.”
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