Episode 124: Website Issue Monitoring Faceoff Show
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- Technology
Don't let issues and problems go unnoticed.
News and Follow-Ups – 00:38
Apple taking the cloud seriously, doing OS upgrades in the cloud
Ninjabutton goes down, how much can you depend on web services?
Ebay aquires Magento
Jade's iTunes account compromised
Skype protocol reverse engineered
Geek Tools – 14:45
Belkin Conserve Smart AV F7C007q Energy-Saving Power Strip
Webapps - 17:33
TravelPod Traveler IQ Game - How well do you know your geography?
Explorra Visual DNA - Visually select good vacations
Website Issue Monitoring - 22:01
Website Issue Monitoring
Uptime
Browsermob - Multiple locations and adjust time
Uptimerobot - Totally free, includes SMS support
Pingdom - Response times, error analysis
Free account 1 website with 20 free SMS messages
Load Time
Browsermob - Multiple locations and adjust time
Pingdom - Response times, error analysis
Google Webmaster Tools
Error Tracking
Google webmaster tools, 404s unreachable to spider
You need to track when people hit errors, so you can fix them
Think about your error messages, ala Rails "Someone has been notified"
Methods
App Emails You
Exception Hub
Hoptoad
Traffic Jams
Google analytics traffic spike alerts via email/sms
Set for no traffic
Set for high traffic
Don't let issues and problems go unnoticed.
News and Follow-Ups – 00:38
Apple taking the cloud seriously, doing OS upgrades in the cloud
Ninjabutton goes down, how much can you depend on web services?
Ebay aquires Magento
Jade's iTunes account compromised
Skype protocol reverse engineered
Geek Tools – 14:45
Belkin Conserve Smart AV F7C007q Energy-Saving Power Strip
Webapps - 17:33
TravelPod Traveler IQ Game - How well do you know your geography?
Explorra Visual DNA - Visually select good vacations
Website Issue Monitoring - 22:01
Website Issue Monitoring
Uptime
Browsermob - Multiple locations and adjust time
Uptimerobot - Totally free, includes SMS support
Pingdom - Response times, error analysis
Free account 1 website with 20 free SMS messages
Load Time
Browsermob - Multiple locations and adjust time
Pingdom - Response times, error analysis
Google Webmaster Tools
Error Tracking
Google webmaster tools, 404s unreachable to spider
You need to track when people hit errors, so you can fix them
Think about your error messages, ala Rails "Someone has been notified"
Methods
App Emails You
Exception Hub
Hoptoad
Traffic Jams
Google analytics traffic spike alerts via email/sms
Set for no traffic
Set for high traffic
36 min