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cloudkick.com
Company blog · cloudkick.com/blog · on HN as polvisystemsweb
cloudkick.com is the company blog at cloudkick.com, writing about systems and web. Since 2009, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Earn free bonus nodes by inviting friends to join Cloudkick”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (22) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cloudkick's blog posts, pricing and provider pages, mostly in 2010–2011 threads on server monitoring, cloud hosting and Node.js. Most links are cited as references to the company or its product.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 22 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /providers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-28
- Earn free bonus nodes by inviting friends to join Cloudkick2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-24
- Cloudkick (YC W09) hits 1,000,000 servers.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-14
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-14
- Writing Node.js Native Extensions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-23
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-17
What Hacker News says?
San Francisco. Cloudkick @ Rackspace. We really need some more front-end engineers. If you're good with JavaScript please give us a call. http://cloudkick.com/careers We're about to move into a brand new office, so it should be fun. Offer a lot of freedom and challenging responsibilities.
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)”Submitted Sysadmin mistakes start-ups make as a story · 164 points
HN discussionThats essentially what Node.js is, although with a heavy focus on asynchronous operation. Check out: https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/aug/23/writing-nodejs-na...
Comment linking /blog/2010/aug/23/writing-nodejs-native-extensions/
on “Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8”Submitted Turkey + USB Thermometer + Cloudkick = SMS Delicious as a story · 89 points
HN discussionCloudKick ( http://cloudkick.com ) - Configurable server monitoring with SMS alerts. Love this service. CoTweet ( http://cotweet.com ) - Shared Twitter account management. Great for support and guerrilla marketing. Uservoice ( http://uservoice.com ) - User feedback and support management. Dropbox ( http://dropbox.com ) - File sharing - we share the business dropbox with our individual dropboxes to share files. Dropl…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition”Submitted 4 Months with Cassandra at Cloudkick (YC W09) as a story · 78 points
HN discussionIf you have a developer plan and use "refer a friend" option, you can earn up to three extra "premium" nodes for free by inviting your friends - https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/nov/24/invite_a_friend/ .
Comment linking /blog/2010/nov/24/invite_a_friend/
on “Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (YC W09)”Submitted Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts as a story · 65 points
HN discussionCloudkick in SF, CA: https://www.cloudkick.com/careers Looking for three main areas: * Frontend in Javascript. We are making some very cool and Dynamic applications. We push monitoring data and graphs milliseconds from when it was collected right to the frontend. * General Python. We are a shop built around Python; We heavily use Django and Cassandra. * Node.js (or good at Python and willing to learn). We are buildi…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)”Submitted Visual evidence of Amazon EC2 network issues as a story · 56 points
HN discussionCloudkick, San Francisco CA. Currently all FT positions are intended to be on-location. A YC Company from W09, we are hacking up server monitoring and management space. (Both cloud and non-cloud). Our tech is mostly Python based, with a spattering of Java, C, C++, Lua, and Node.js. We love fast product cycles, shipping features early, so we can get the customer feedback loop going as quickly as possible. Positions:…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)”Submitted Real-time server visualization with canvas and processing.js as a story · 54 points
HN discussionThese tools are great for looking at what's happening now if you're logged into the server. They're complemented by monitoring products like: Self hosted: - Nagios (already mentioned in the post) - Cacti / Munin Hosted: - http://www.serverdensity.com (tool my company produces) - http://www.cloudkick.com (monitoring + cloud infrastructure management) - http://www.scoutapp.com these give you similar metrics plus vario…
Comment linking /
on “Linux System Monitoring Tools”Submitted Libcloud joins Apache Software Foundation Incubator as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI congratulate the Mailgun team and I wish them all the best, but Rackspace's previous acquisitions bode ill for the future of Mailgun. Rackspace acquired CloudKick in late 2010 and Anso Labs in February of 2011. Both teams must have been put on other projects, because their products have stagnated. CloudKick no longer lets people sign up. Their blog, https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/ , has broken images and few updat…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Rackspace acquires Mailgun (YC W11)”Submitted Writing Node.js Native Extensions as a story · 41 points
HN discussionAlso, if you're interested in a paid plan, we're offering 15% savings for the next 48 hours! Use the promo code: "cksysadmin" or visit https://www.cloudkick.com/pricing/cksysadmin
Comment linking /pricing/cksysadmin
on “Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts”Submitted Cloudkick: Closing in on Google Closure as a story · 37 points
HN discussionCloudkick looks nice and I have great respect for the tech team behind it, but it's seriously overpriced. I don't mind paying for Saas (and pay many thousands a month for all sorts of services), but this is ridiculous: https://www.cloudkick.com/pricing/ I love how the page suggests that the $949/month plan is somehow the 'default'. :)
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Cloudkick (YC W09) hits 1,000,000 servers”Submitted Cloudkick Labs - command line interface, Android app, and... as a story · 23 points
HN discussionTechCrunch: "Cloudkick Now Managing 1 Million Servers" Cloudkick Blog: "...we've just hit 1,000,000 servers registered all-time in Cloudkick." Those statements aren't even close to equivalent. The HN guidelines say it well: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/oct/14/one-million-serve...
Comment linking /blog/2010/oct/14/one-million-servers/
on “Cloudkick (YC W09) hits 1,000,000 servers”Submitted Cloudkick (YC W09) now supports multi-factor authentication as a story · 23 points
HN discussionthere is a gridview inside cloudkick, this is just an alternative view on the data, for example this is the dashboard: https://www.cloudkick.com/site_media/images/home_tour/dashbo... There is also the /monitoring/ page (which i don't have a screenshot of handy), which is a grid view similar to what you are talking about.
Comment linking /site_media/images/home_tour/dashboard.png
on “Real-time server visualization with canvas and processing.js”Submitted Earn free bonus nodes by inviting friends to join Cloudkick as a story · 16 points
HN discussionCool. I am pretty excited about this idea: https://www.cloudkick.com/hybrid-cloudkick
Comment linking /hybrid-cloudkick
on “Cloudkick (YC W09) raises another $2M”Submitted Real-time server visualization with canvas and processing.js as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI find it really annoying that these tech news sites (read TechCrunch) never link to the company. Always to crunchbase or in this case some silly twitter search about Cloudkick. Anyway, they do seem to have pretty good coverage for the major providers ( https://www.cloudkick.com/providers/ ) Anyone used their service in production?
Comment linking /providers/
on “Cloudkick (YC W09) raises another $2M”Submitted Applying Lessons from Cloudkick as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFor those not ready for a larger server plan, we do offer a free-forever Developer plan ... https://www.cloudkick.com/developers
Comment linking /developers
on “Cloudkick + Zencoder deal for $17 on AppSumo”Submitted Cloudkick joins the Rackspace Family as a story · 4 points
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