[geeks] Paging software?

Alois Hammer aloishammer at casearmour.net
Mon Mar 31 17:42:05 CDT 2008


On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:35:22 -0400, "Patrick Giagnocavo"
<patrick at zill.net> said:
> 
> For $15 / month rent a virtual private server on the Internet, like a 
> small Linux Xen instance or a Solaris zone, from a company like mine or 
> a thousand others out there.
> 
> Install monitoring software there, that emails a message to your phone 
> if it can't reach $X (or if whatever error condition you are monitoring 
> for, is returned).  This solution is completely out of band.
> 
> No hardware cost, no messing around with blah blah this or that, 
> recurring cost is negligible.

I neglected to mention "absolutely no budget whatsoever" among the other
restrictions...



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