Handshake.org Reviews

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1. Veronika Davies

   over 3 years ago
   Amazing Pingdom alternative!

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   almost 4 years ago
   Great website monitoring service

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Handshake.org mentions (60)

• The Top of the DNS Hierarchy

  Would you consider https://handshake.org to be one? - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Own full personal domain name without .com etc.

  It's based on the handshake blockchain https://handshake.org/ and yes, it's outside of DNS from what I have read. I originally assumed that had bought 1,000,000 TLD at $240k each :) which is crazy as its sounds. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Vickrey Auction

  The Handshake [0] project used (uses?) Vickrey auction to auction off the initial supply of names. It had some other cool ideas, such as replacing certificate authorities with self-signed certificates verified by the blockchain. I know everyone hates blockchain, I kind of do too, but Handshake I found genuinely interesting. Disclaimer, I own some Handshake names so you could say I'm shilling for it but mostly the... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• So we did a thing !

  Our stack is built on Handshake. You can know more at handshake.org. Source: about 1 year ago

• ELI5: How do internet domains work? Who are you paying?

  In the future things might change, there's discussions around decentralization of trust that now has accumulated with a select few (donut domains? Verisign?) Handshake is one such protocol that allows you to have decentralized trust and hence gives you freedom to have your own TLD, porkbun will even sell you one if you'd like but it's very much experimental today. Source: over 1 year ago

Better Uptime mentions (5)

• Uptime Monitoring

  I use https://betteruptime.com/ for all of my websites with various checks. You can do keyword checks, status error codes and get push notifications + phone calls if it is down for x number of time. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there any way to get SMS notifications when Internet at our office goes off?

  For what you are needing, I would try BetterUptime. Source: over 2 years ago

• Plex Server Availability Status Page

  I am using https://betteruptime.com/ if it matters. Source: over 2 years ago

• AI devops squad to the rescue: How to use voice AI to make your site reliability engineering more efficient

  // external functions are called from your Dasha conversation in the body of main.dsl file // external functions can be used for calculations, data storage, in this case, to // call external services with HTTPS requests. You can call an external function from DSL // in your node.js file and have it do literally anything you can do with Node.js. // External function. Acknowledge an incident in... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• A Tour of Website Monitoring Tools

  Better Uptime, one of the newer alternatives, combines incident management and monitoring in one tool. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago