Archive for February, 2009

New ServerMojo Alerts

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Following on from the recent roll-out of the shiny new ServerMojo v2, we have just added another new feature! Well its really an upgrade to an existing feature but either way its neat..

Alerts now include more information about the downtime we detected – for example did it timeout or was it a 500 ‘internal server error’ or a 404 or whatever else we came across when scanning your server or page. These more detailed alerts allow you to instantly make a more informed decision on what action (if any) needs to be taken to rectify the problem or reason for the alert.

We’ll also be adding some related functions soon to further increase the value of alerts and the diagnostic usefulness of ServerMojo.

ServerMojo v2

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

The all new ServerMojo v2 is now online and running! :)

This new version is a complete and total rewrite of the entire system with more features, more monitor types, more account types, more alerts formats, cool new interface, even cooler charts and overall a fancy new environmentally friendly design (well its fairly green at least!).

If you were an existing ServerMojo user then your account has been imported and all your monitors should be running fine now.

If you had a free account before then it remains free now however you need to perform certain actions on the site to ‘recharge’ your account – actions include logging in and viewing your monitors and stats occasionally. Another action to keep your account active is to send us feedback on the new system – anything you like or don’t like about it? Found a bug? Any features you would like to see added? Also testimonials that we can publish on the site would be great! Feel free to send us any constructive criticism – if you think something sucks then we want to know so we can fix it! For extra bonus points – blog or twitter about how cool ServerMojo is now.. ;)

If you had a premium account in the old system then your account remains premium in the new system and is now converted to a ‘Small Biz’ account but the monthly fee for existing premiums remains unchanged.

Features in this new version include:

  • New monitor types such as http with authentication (can login to your site to check status), generic port monitor (enter an address and any port number and it will check for a response there), RegEx test – this monitor extracts and stores data from your page and is a premium feature.
  • Other monitor types that also existed in the old system include ping, dns, mysql, http, http + keyword.
  • Bigger, better and rather snazzy charts showing response time and either uptime or downtime along with hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly statistics.
  • Monitoring is done from multiple geographically separated nodes and statistics show average global response times.
  • Alert types now including Email, IM (Jabber), Twitter, SMS and even RSS feeds.
  • Handy monitor overview page showing details and current status of all monitors in your account so you can get an instant look at your entire system health. This page refreshes automatically so you can just leave it open and whenever a server status changes you can see it easily.
  • Monitor frequency can be up to every minute depending on account type.
  • Traceroutes are performed immediately on server down and results are stored for later analysis – a premium feature.
  • Finally of course there is the whole new site design with much improved interface to manage your account and monitors.

We’re hopeful that once you’ve had some time to experience the awesomeness of the new ServerMojo you will consider upgrading to one of the premium packages and if you are not yet a ServerMojo user then do your servers a favour and please try a 100% free trial to one of our premium account packages – there’s no commitment or obligation and no billing details are collected so our trials are risk free. :)

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