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I was too lazy, but the idea is cool. If hassle-free this is something I would pay for (1 thing cam to mind: how can I trust your site is always on? explain this to your prospects).

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Actually, as of now the site itself (HTTP) is not redundant. It could be by using DNS for failover to a slave host or some kind of heartbeat setup. The data is replicated, so the problem is just sending you to the right host when you type in http://wasitup.com in your browser.

The monitoring backend on the other hand is redundant (or as redundant as I feel is needed for a free service).

Doesn't need to be a site, just a service running on a machine. How can you ensure that machine is always connected to the Interjob? Well,

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