Disk Notifier
Dead simple disk space monitoring
We've reached end to end completeness! People can now sign up and PAY for the service. So, where is everybody? Build it and they will come, right? ;)
Initially, I went with Paddle but their sign up process took 10(!) days. So signed up with Stripe instead. That was painless although I do worry a bit about how VAT is handled.
With a blatant disregard of quality standards I've managed to make a product which is functional. You can register a server which will then be periodically monitored.
Doing this entailed setting up a frontend for user registration. A backend for server management. A producer to pick servers which need are due to be scraped and a worker which is able to actually do so.
Lots of things learned. Especially on the deployment front of the particular framework I'm using (Lucky).
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Nice work!
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Love this as you are 100% correct - we have had one of our products (a $2m/ARR SaaS) go down because of server disk space problems. We use Zabbix now for monitoring for this, speed of load times into our app and many other things - that's because we can set up Zabbix, but it is a complex beast. I really like the idea of yours being simple.
One suggestion though - and this comes from experience. "Disk Notifier". It definitely does what it says on the tin - and I have products like that - but may I suggest a name that might allow you to scale it wider than just disk space? Just a thought :)
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Zabbix is a beast indeed! Once you tame it it gives great possibilities.
Your suggestion about the name really hits home. I've been contemplating this for the last couple of weeks. Your remark makes is even more on top of mind. Thank you!
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No problems. It seemed rude to say it, but from past experience with my own businesses and names I thought I'd hopefully let you learn from my mistakes! Reach out if you need any thoughts here - always happy to help and quite enjoy coming up with names.
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I'm my 15 year career I've seen many websites and servers go down because a disk filled up. Due to log files growing too big or Docker images accumulating. This is an easy problem to solve. Just keep a close eye on the server! Add some monitoring software... This is a hassle. Now you need to go into that server and install a bunch of software. Which need to be maintained and kept running and updated. No fun.
But with ssh and df we can do better...
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