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David Hancock, who established the computer maintenance business Geeks2U four years ago, today unveiled a second company which will monitor web sites and send an SMS every time there is an outage.
The service, called Mind your Uptime, stems from an experience Hancock himself had with the Geeks2U website which went off the air for an extended period. He only learned of the outage by accident. “Your hosting company is never going to tell you about downtime,” said Hancock.
The service which can be ordered online, and is being offered globally, has according to Hancock been set up to “monitor any internet connected server every minute of every day and measure the responses. If something goes down the subscriber gets an SMS message.”
Subscribers also get regular reports emailed to them. For $9.95 a subscriber can monitor one web site address, and SMS messages alerting subscribers to outages are sent for 20 cents a pop.
A business plan is available for $19.95 a month, monitoring up to five addresses, while the enterprise plan monitors up to 20 sites a month for $39.95. Again SMS alerts cost 20 cents each.
Subscribers can sign up for the service at the Mind your Uptime website. Hancock said that the first local subscriber to the system was the Sydney based Powerhouse Museum.
Both Geeks2U and Mind your Uptime are privately held companies owned by Hancock. He said that after six years in operation Geeks2U now has 120 IT consultants (35 of whom are full time) on its books around the country.
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