Show HN (again): Web-based Link Checker with Blacklist Lookup

Looks good & works well, based on a couple of sites-- unsure on the doctor image. It's funny but it might prevent some people from taking the site seriously.

-- remove "example.com" from search box when gets focus?

-- rather than blacklist certain domains, maybe you could cap the number of link checks? With utilities like this I always try a popular site to see how it works, before entering one of my own sites. I was unable to do that, which was a little frustrating at first.

-- add a quick description of service on main page? Not sure if "check your website's links" would be obvious to everyone.

If you're looking for feature ideas, it might be interesting to be able to tell how deeply buried each link is from the homepage. I have some sites with a ton of content and I'd love to know how easily reached different pages are.

Looking at my logs I only see 5 requests (maybe I'm grepping for the wrong thing?) but the UI shows many more links checked.

  grep www.drlinkcheck.com  /var/log/nginx/access.log | wc -l
  5

All of those have the user agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; dlcbot/0.1; +http://www.drlinkcheck.com/)

Also, I think it would be useful to add a section in 'About' that says the user agent the crawler will use.

This is a repost from about two weeks ago. Back then, I had to remove the link after a few minutes because my little server couldn't handle the traffic spike and ran out of memory.

During the last days I have added more server power and did some major changes to make the service more robust. I hope the work was worth it.

I put together a usablity review of drlinkcheck.com using moustach.io. I hope you find this useful.

http://moustach.io/welcome/e/reviewed/zNQi0Ddm0hFnDC4uEKvPYL...

Good luck.

The service is a good MVP - now it's time to beef up the features.

I have a friend who is working on a very similar product - it will be launched sometime in the next few weeks... keep an eye out for competition ;)

Works very well. And nice touch on the auto-updating pagination.

Very useful little tool. Now find a way to monetize it :)

Looks neat. But where this can be used for?

nice work! I see you're running nginx as your web server. Anymore details on the dev stack you used?