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Same here. I need a phone call to pay any attention. I use UptimeRobot and their RSS feed to pipe into a Zapier Zap which uses Twilio to call me and read me the site that is down in a British voice haha. Easy to setup, works and really cost effective!

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Too many weak points of failure on that setup for an alerting system.

I don't think so for my usage and I shared it because it's cost effective and would be acceptable for a lot of devs' projects. I still get UptimeRobots notifications if Zapier or Twilio hiccups. For the phone notifications, if the system fails on a given night it's not the end of the world if I don't wake up. I can fix in the morning.

But I agree for e-commerce or mission critical applications - you need redundancy and it's worth ponying up the extra money for an advanced system.

If you can fix it in the morning, why bother at all? As long as it's not an common occurrence, it should be fine, right?

Because many times it's just about being proactive and getting things done ASAP because having your client find out first is bad.

I also prefer not starting my day with a fire. I'd rather do it off-hours.

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