Author Archives: Michiel van Vlaardingen

Development Update – 4

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Michiel van Vlaardingen

We are getting closer and closer each day, we are almost ready for the first bunch of testers. Our attention is shifting more towards the user interface, to create the best experience possible. An important part of that user interface … Continue reading →

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Development Update – 3

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Michiel van Vlaardingen

It has been a while since I last updated you about our progress. We are still continuing our work on various reports. An important part of this is creating informative graphs. Although we liked Open Flash Chart, it felt a … Continue reading →

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Amazon RDS vs DIY MySQL on EC2 Benchmark

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Michiel van Vlaardingen

As I was researching online whether Amazon RDS was a viable option, I had a hard time finding reliable benchmarks. The authors of this good book on EC2 mention it to be a bit faster, but without further clarification. The … Continue reading →

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Where does it hurt?

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Michiel van Vlaardingen

We want to create the best monitoring service around, therefore we would like to know:  Where does it hurt? We’ve got a few pains of ourselves that we are currently focusing on: Too much information: with a lot of servers, … Continue reading →

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Reviewing Pivotal Tracker

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Michiel van Vlaardingen

To plan and track Observu features we are using Pivotal Tracker. If you recognize having a features list where half of the tasks has the highest priority, you will probably like the idea behind it: the tasks are in a … Continue reading →

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Development Update – 2

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Michiel van Vlaardingen

It’s been a month since our last update, in that time we’ve added three critical features: multi-location monitoring: check availability and performance from multiple locations a ping monitor, to ping your servers from multiple locations (international) SMS and Phone notifications: … Continue reading →

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Development Update

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Michiel van Vlaardingen

We are making steady progress on the next release of Observu.  Our main focus so far has been the monitoring of website availability and the creation of a dashboard that instantly tells you whether or not everything is ok and … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Michiel van Vlaardingen

This is the Observu.com blog, started to update you on the progress of the next version of Observu. This new Observu version will aim to provide a convenient dashboard for collecting information on both your websites and your servers. By … Continue reading →

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