Few folks are aware of one of my behind the scenes janitorial jobs. I'm somewhat responsible for ensuring that a lot of amatuer-run Bitcoin web sites remain online.
How so? I have scripts that check the liveness of every one of the thousands of links on my Bitcoin Resources site.
When a site goes down, it alerts me, then I reach out to the site's operator.
It's amazing how few people monitor their own sites given that there are plenty of services that will do it for free.
Thanks for providing this as a service. Invaluable 🫡
I think everybody is just relying on you to notify them.
Thank you ! I use and share your site quite often !
why use a free site when we have you?
Which service would you recommend to check on the status of a website?
It is surprising how few people keep tabs on their website. SSL’s expire, security patches aren’t applied, etc. We see it all the time.
I noticed you delisted wasabist's coinjoin explorer quickly once it went down. Consider nostr:nprofile1qqsw23lc30574v5ng0mjq56kdpnkw6vhuzcdnzp6d0dqntzt8utecccpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t07rmfmt as a replacement, it has even more insightful metrics.
