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Life & fun · December 10, 2013

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Server Check.in, one year later

It's been a year since my original Show HN post [1] announcing Server Check.in [2], so I thought I'd post a reflection after my first year running the service. Server Check.in is an inexpensive website uptime monitoring service that I started out of my own need—if I had no users, I'd still keep it going. Fortunately, there are enough paid customers to keep me interested, and I've learned a lot from their feedback. I had a good initial batch of signups after the announcement post on HN. These early customers gave me a lot of feedback, and some suggested fairly major revisions to the service.…

Server Check.in, one year later launched on December 10, 2013 with 8 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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It's been a year since my original Show HN post [1] announcing Server Check.in [2], so I thought I'd post a reflection after my first year running the service. Server Check.in is an inexpensive website uptime monitoring service that I started out of my own need—if I had no users, I'd still keep it going. Fortunately…

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