Open sourced service
When out of beta, you could offer a Unix service client added to the monitoring rack to download and install on the user's server if they want it.
That could result in something like "pay for updown or host a server".
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Lukas Bestle commented
Yeah :/.
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Unfortunately ^^
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Lukas Bestle commented
It would be nice, if all people were trustable.
But they are not. :) -
Should I ? ^^
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Lukas Bestle commented
Yeah, that's right.
You just can't trust everyone, right? :) -
I'm still studying this idea for a long time but I doesn't seem to worth it for me. For example someone may just stick a proxy in front of the monitoring daemon always returning 200 OK to save ressources and bandwith. I mean, they are a huge ammount of issue to deal with. It should protect the data, still monitor well, i have to be sure le daemon is not hacked, some clients may want to only allow a limited IPs for the monitoring (wich can't be contolled with that kind of daemon).
For me it looks like a huge amount of work that won't pay back well and will increase maintenance costs.
But I'm not giving up as I liked this idea before I created updown, I may find a way to do it well one day ;) -
Lukas Bestle commented
Yeah, that's right.
But you could create a private API (with SSL and HTTP Auth) no one knows creating a binary file.
Like that, nobody could access the API directly, because he does not know the auth infos. -
Everything can be leaked, the daemon is not made to be run on untrusted network. Running it this way would require another layer of security (a database wrapper with an SSL API and stuff like that)
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Lukas Bestle commented
You mean, domain names could get leaked?
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Hello,
This is a good idea I already though about, it's not possible now for security reasons. But it may be in the future :)