Show HN: UptimeButler – Website availability monitoring [public beta]

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11 points·jetro223··7 comments

It was a lot of fun developing UptimeButler and we learned a lot. For the actual web app we decided to give Meteor a try. The hardest part there was, that some packages contain a lot of "magic" :) But in the end, we had a pretty good feeling what we could use out of the box and what had to be done by hand.

For the workers which perform the availability checks, we use C# applications running on Linux with Mono. Fortunately we got into the BizSpark program from Microsoft, which allows us to launch our public beta with very little private equity.

I tried Meteor but could not get around the slow hot-reload. 5 to 10 seconds, I just could not withstand it.

Thanks for your feedback!

Thats very true! It's a little annoying that you have to wait this long on every change ...

Looks like they're working on it http://info.meteor.com/blog/whats-coming-in-meteor-12-and-be...

What are you using for developing web stuff?

Right now I'm not webstuffing a lot at work, for small things I'm using Gulp.

In my spare time I'm experimenting with Webpack & React, but the complexity overhead will probably push me towards simpler frameworks.

I miss the simplicity of Meteor.

We created this small uptime monitoring service. Any feedback is appreciated!

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