Invoicebus

The primary data center of Invoicebus is located in Chicago, Illinois, USA and it's called "ORD1". To familiarize better, you can visit the gallery and get a quick view of the facility environment. They claim that can provide 100% uptime, so one month before the official launch of Invoicebus, we decided to conduct a test and make sure if the statement is true. We set up the Rackspace server, transfer the domain from the old hosting, re-hosted our early marketing site, and started experimenting. One of the tools we've been using is called Pingdom, an online service that provides analytics for the server up-time, response time and couple of other stats and tests. We set up to inspect the server repeatedly on one minute intervals by pinging it from 41 different locations around the world. We were checking the stats almost every day for 30 days, but the dashboard constantly was displaying the same boring message: "Last error seen: NEVER". The one minute pings are still running, so if something goes wrong, couple of alerts are triggered and sent instantly to our mobile phones via SMS and email. However, during the 94 days period of Invoicebus, we haven't got any critical alert, so far so good. We decided to share these results with you: