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Never Offline
Company blog · wormly.com/blogsystemsweb
Never Offline is the company blog at wormly.com, writing about systems and web. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Wormly as a monitoring service they use for uptime, distributed endpoint checks and SSL certificate tests. The praise is for the service rather than for any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Wormly offers class leading uptime monitoring, website and server monitoring to keep your site online and fast. Remote monitoring alerts you to outages before customers notice, plus Wormly can also monitor server health metrics to prevent failures.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-23
What Hacker News says?
https://www.wormly.com I run multiple e-commerce websites where up time is critical and the types of errors could be anything. I use a service called Wormly that hits specific end points from multiple locations around the world. I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer.
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on “Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?”Submitted Even Facebook can't get their SSL setup right as a story · 12 points
HN discussionLooks like they haven't installed the cert chain properly, which is a bit embarrassing since it's easy to check. CAcert Class 3 Root is the issuer. Link: https://www.wormly.com/test_ssl/
Comment linking /test_ssl/
on “Screenshots using vector graphics (gtk3 apps only)”Submitted Adwords Broad Matching: When a visit is not a visit as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSo it looks like the problem was that you updated your DNS but forgot about TTLs. Your new cert has the correct name on it, but you didn't setup the cert chain properly (SSLCACertificateFile under Apache) https://www.wormly.com/test_ssl/h/50.16.245.9/i/50.16.245.9/...
Comment linking /test_ssl/h/50.16.245.9/i/50.16.245.9/p/443
on “Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month”Submitted Notes on surviving today's EC2 outage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo it's not: your hostname is wrong, and your cert is self-signed. Check https://www.wormly.com/test_ssl/h/www.fluxflex.com/i/64.27.5...
Comment linking /test_ssl/h/www.fluxflex.com/i/64.27.57.29/p/443
on “Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month”Also https://www.wormly.com/test_ssl
Comment linking /test_ssl
on “Quick online tool to check SSL configurations”I use and really like http://wormly.com . Their monitoring includes SSL cert validity, among many other things.
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on “Show HN: Snitch.io – SSL auditing and alerting”The site is using a non-standard CA. Wormly has a nice series of tests for these things, see here for an example: https://www.wormly.com/test_ssl/h/presale.events.ccc.de/i/21...
Comment linking /test_ssl/h/presale.events.ccc.de/i/213.73.91.79/p/443
on “28C3 presale opens ”We use a monitoring service called Wormly... http://www.wormly.com/ It's run by a friend of ours who used to work at Sitepoint and was frustrated by the limited options for good, affordable, distributed monitoring. He's been running it for over 2 years and is growing fast. It's a great service and recommended as a YC-style startup worth supporting.
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on “Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server/site uptime?”Most likely the browser would not complain; it will block, fetch the intermediate certificates (if possible), verify the signatures, then proceed. So probably just a performance hit in most cases. Full explanation here: https://www.wormly.com/help/ssl-tests/intermediate-cert-chai...
Comment linking /help/ssl-tests/intermediate-cert-chain
on “Even Facebook can't get their SSL setup right”I've found that http://wormly.com works very well - no false positives and if you enable the "agent" monitoring you get all kinds of nice graphs about MySQL performance too.
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on “Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use?”