RIAForge Milestone

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Woot. I just approved project number 600 at RIAForge. For those who are stat happy like me, some other items I track are...

Total Active Projects: 600
Total Views: 6,295,475
Total Downloads: 410,802
Total Verified Users: 4,549
Updates in past 24 hours: 2
Unique Logins in past 24 hours: 19
New users in past 24 hours: 29

The uptime has been pretty good too, although I just checked ServersAlive and it seems to be down. The product seems cool, but is very difficult to setup via RDP. You would think they would improve that, but I found quite a few people having issues with the setup. I thought I had it set up well, but I guess not. I can't complain too much as it didn't cost me anything, but, meh. I think I may go low-tech and simply set up a scheduled task from my server here to ping RIAForge every 30 minutes.

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Archived Comments

Comment 1 by ike posted on 12/30/2008 at 7:33 AM

I've been inflating your statistics. ;)

I log in every day to check the comments on my blogs, just because I'm not getting the email notifications... I don't mind, just saying. :)

Granted, I also watch the # downloads on my projects every day. Makes me feel good to see those roughly 2-3 downloads per day on my two main projects. Feels like I'm really contributing something of value to the community. :)

I also grab a calculator and do the quick math of dividing the number of downloads by the number of views (conversion rate). If you have an extra minute, that might be a cool stat to add -- that and possibly average downloads per day since the project was created. Just 'cause those are both easy calculations based on data that's already in the RIAForge db.

Comment 2 by Mark Mazelin posted on 12/30/2008 at 4:11 PM

Congrats on the new milestone! As far as the monitoring app, have you ever tried Nagios? http://www.nagios.org/ It's what we use at work, and we moved to that from Servers Alive (probably for similar reasons!).

Comment 3 by Raymond Camden posted on 12/30/2008 at 6:52 PM

@Mark: Interesting - what is the price for this? I see a download, but nowhere do I see prices.

Comment 4 by Sid Wing posted on 12/30/2008 at 6:56 PM

Nagios is free - last I checked. AT least the version I used to run was.

Comment 5 by Raymond Camden posted on 12/30/2008 at 6:59 PM

Well cool then. They need to make that more obvious. :) I'll give it a try when I get back to work next week. Thanks.

Comment 6 by Mark Mazelin posted on 12/30/2008 at 7:48 PM

Yeah, I agree it's not very obvious. I guess the closest they come to saying it's free is at the bottom of their about page:

http://www.nagios.org/about/

* Open Source Software
* Full access to source code
* Released under the GPL license

I just verified with our network engineer that runs it that it is free software.

Comment 7 by Charlie Arehart posted on 12/30/2008 at 10:55 PM

Hey Ray (and others), on the subject of site uptime monitoring tools, I list several more (free and commercial) in my CF411 category on the topic:

http://www.cf411.com/#sitemon

Hope that's helpful.