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[_] Website monitoring software?

Matt Kane ascorbic at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 12:22:59 GMT 2006


On 1 Nov 2006, at 12:17, Tom Gidden wrote:


> Incidentally, using email and SMS for fault notification isn't
> actually something you should rely on, as both can fail silently...
> doubly-so when using an email-to-SMS gateway. Just this week, I
> had some SMS texts arrive over 8 hours after sending. That was
> Orange to Orange, with both phones getting a good quality signal.

We use AQL for our SMS (HTTP Interface, not email) and I've never had
an SMS take more than 5 seconds to arrive. Obviously past performance
cannot etc etc..


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