Hi there, my name is Joss Shen. I used to be a web developer and IT person in a web service company named WebEx (now part of CISCO). Based on my experience in online service operations, I know how hard it is to achieve >=99.99% availability and always high performance service delivery to the world without spending tons of $$$ on monitoring tools and services. While external user perspective monitoring service providers existed out there (like Keynote, Mercury Interactive - now part of HP, Gomez, NetIQ, SiteUpTime, Internetseer, etc.) but to get a truly GLOBAL web site monitoring is no doubt very expensive. Don’t know about you, but I think charging webmasters and web service companies heavily by just doing a few monitoring checks here and there is a CRIME! We webmasters and IT operation folks should unite and say “NO!†to these website monitoring companies. Instead, we can and should form a “Neighborhood Watchâ€-kind network and monitor each other’s website availability, up time and performance, you know, just like Skype, in a peer-to-peer fashion. So everybody contributes a tiny fraction of his/her resources but gets website monitoring for FREE! With more and more websites joining this “I got your butt covered†family, we all get better monitoring services from all others around the world. Everybody wins! By joining this P2P website monitoring network, I can be immediately alerted if my site in United States is down at midnight, from Europe and Asia customers’ point of view, while I’m in deep sleep. All that can be accomplished by the fact that some other websites in Europe and Asia are monitoring my site. And vice versa. That’s the exact reason YouMonitor.Us was born. It was specifically built to offer free, global website monitoring (uptime, availability and performance) services. The site essentially acts as a "neighborhood watch" for the web, allowing participants to run an open-source script on their websites to receive free monitoring services. The script is very secure and consumes a minimal amount of system resources (CPU, memory and bandwidth). In fact it’s just ONE single web page, in either PHP, or JSP, or ASP or Perl language, depends on what you used to build your site. The services are geared towards individuals who can upload and run at least one web page on their website (people like you!), but they don't need to be on a dedicated server. Shared hosting is perfectly fine. I'm writing here in hopes that YOU, as one of the great webmasters or IT guys/gals in the world, can come check us out. And if you like what you see, register and keep using it for FREE. Sign up today and you could even win a new IPOD Nano! Please tell your friends about us! There's absolutely no catch to our services. We don't spam people; we don't sell anyone's personal information. We're just looking to grow, and we truly believe our core spirit is the same as what Internet has always been for: Help Us, Help You. YouMonitor.Us … And we’ll monitor for you! Best wishes, Joss Shen (My blog: http://YouMonitor.Us/Blog/) http://YouMonitor.Us === We unite, to make Internet a better place! ===
First, this is clearly a copy and paste spam message. This service looks interesting, so I can get around that but there is one problem; the source. You state that the source is open and yet I am unable to locate it on your site. On the site it states the code is under the GPL but that is all I can find on the subject on the public site. You also have a little problem with your SSL cert, its invalid. Try to register, the cert comes up as invalid.