links for 2006-09-07

Oh, no! Not another site written in Rails that’s fun to use and so simple they can offer it for free! People, think of the children!

Yes, assaf — and think of the people whose business model is built around selling competing software.

[...] In his links for September Seventh, Sterling posted a link to Montastic. It’s a new, free website uptime monitoring service built using Ruby on Rails. The creators developed Montastic to solve a problem of their own and, after getting it running, realized that a lot of other people could benefit from this — so they offer it for free, no strings attached. It doesn’t hurt them to do so, and helps generate business for what they actually are selling, so there’s no reason to avoid providing this service to the world at large. This is the sort of thinking that makes all this Web 2.0 stuff work: synergistic mutual benefit that arises naturally when you help others just because it doesn’t hurt you to do so. It’s what happens when your market is about as free as any market has ever been. Thank goodness for the Web. [...]

http://mon.itor.us is another great website monitoring with desktop interface and many cool features. Highly recommended! and it is also free

Thanks for the pointer, Avoyan. I’ll check it out.