This is a big and exciting week for us: After releasing a new version of Kolibria's website and this blog, we are releasing our first real "Kolibria Web Application": Monitoria, a website uptime monitoring service.

It has been very useful for us, into helping to manage the availability of our clients servers so we decided to make it public. This is our fifth public Ruby on Rails website.

Why use this web application ?

I think you have to answer this simple question: How many clients did you lose last week, because your website was unavailable ?

If your website wasn't monitored at that time, the answer is probably "I don't know". That's not a good answer. You HAVE TO know.

And even if you think you know, are you in front of your computer every single minute of the day, to check if your website is up ? I don't think so. That's where Monitoria comes in.

Monitoria will perform an HTTP request every minute (or more if you want) on your website, and alert you via e-mail or SMS when it is down or too slow. A website is considered to be offline if your server answers an HTTP status other than 200, or if it fails to respond within 10 seconds. Another E-mail/SMS will be sent when your website is back online.

Okay, enough with the talk, why not try it for yourself ? Okay, only because it's you, use this coupon code when you'll register, and you will get a 20% discount on any account: blog20-64906. Quickly, it will only be available for seven days!

Here is the press release (click to download the pdf):