- Front end web site availability
- APIs available
- Back end processes are running
- Database up
- Disk space available
- Error logs for important issues
The database checks would include referencal integrity and sanity checks on volumes to warn of potential issues eg a failed module or abuse by a user.
Daily and weekly reports by Email, RSS, Twitter, web tool. SMS for emergencies requiring immediate action.
Option to have support from a Sys Admin/DBA automatically trigger to fix minor issues.
Looks like this: http://cl.ly/image/0Z15301Q3L1u
I'm curious, are you a developer?
If problem X and problem Y both cost $25/month to solve, they should be roughly equal pain-wise. By starting at price point of $25/month, and working your way backwards to find problems, you should expect to be tackling Github- or Basecamp-sized problems.
>I'm curious, are you a developer?
Yes, I'm a developer/consultant.
Also with such a critical part of your system, getting information from your user, if the service is slow or down you will run into troubles.
What specific programming languages and/or frameworks do you require a solution for? Please let me know if I missed the point completely. Thanks for your answer!
Validation is non-trivial for many fields. For example almost no-one implements email validation correctly as per the RFC because it's hard to get right, and most people just use a hacky regex that ends up accepting invalid emails and rejecting valid ones.
Or with credit card validation, many places don't validate credit card numbers (i.e doing the validation checksum, checking if the card is a mastercard that it's got the mastercard prefix) before sending them to the card processor site. If the card processing services rejects the card and the user has to re-enter the card details, chance are they won't bother and you've lost yourself a sale. If you validated for obvious mistakes on-the-fly (i.e user sees error immediately) you wouldn't lose as many of those customers.
You could also do things like supplementing the user supplied data, say the user supplies an address you could automatically geocode it and put it in a hidden field for the website.
should be secure, auto detect formats, etc.
Thank you for the answers so far!
Currently frustrated that highrise does not timestamp tags, or allow tags to be sorted by a timestamp.
If you could add that feature as a plugin or via their api I would gladly pay $25 per month.
Haven't looked extensively for a solution, but it's certainly a pain point at the moment.
