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Pricing changes

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Since this project started in 2013 it was always a pay-as-you-go service without any price increase since the day 1.

Now, 7 years later, we have evaluated that model and came to a conclusion that we need some changes. Changes that would support this business better.

We’re not the biggest fans of a subscription model, but in this case we believe that this business decision is justified.

We’re using a “subscription” word a lot here, but it’s worth noting that as today, we will not offer recurring payments. You make all the payments explicitly, we won’t charge you automatically.

If a paid plan is not renewed manually, it will be converted to a free plan after the expiration date.

Free/premium plans
Starting from 2020-11-21 will offer three plans:
– Free – limited to 2 uptime tests with with 5 minutes test interval and 2 application monitoring tests and no extra features like custom user agent or additional notification emails.
– Lite – limited to 10 uptimes tests (1 minute interval) and 10 application monitoring tests.
– Full – limited to 50 uptimes tests (1 minute interval) and 50 application monitoring tests.

Prices are as follows:
– Free – well, free.
– Lite – 2€ per month or 10€ in a yearly payment
– Full – 5€ per month or 50€ in a yearly payment

We’ve made those plans by carefully analysing our competitors and we believe this is still the best deal on the market.

Release is scheduled on 2020-11-21.

During that day we will release all necessary changes to our servers, including small re-design of the web app, and we will start a process of migrating all accounts to the new business model.

Uptime testing and reporting will be affected during the release but it should not be longer than a few minutes.

We will send details regarding the migration of existing accounts in a separate newsletter.

We hope, that after reading this, you’d understand the reasons why the business model is changing and how this is going to improve the development of our service.

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Big news! Lots of changes!

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Big news! Lots of changes!

A lot has been changed recently and we’re happy to announce that we’re done with polishing our current products so it feels and looks better. We primarily hope it would also provide much better experience.

What changed in a short list:

– Dark mode!
– Website dead links scanner now sends notifications when finishes (Slack and e-mail).
– You get downtime reminders for 48 hours after incident (Uptime monitoring and application monitoring).
– Application monitoring will no longer be free of charge since it goes out of beta.


Details

Dark Mode

It’s not about black or white hat. It’s our app which now adjusts to your system settings. If you system is dark and your browser supports it (if not, it soon will) our app will become dark automatically. That’s what we call true Responsive Web Design!

If it makes you want to test it right now, please check our blog post which explains all why’s and how’s.


Beware: you might get more notifications from us!

In a few minutes after this e-mail campaign is sent out to you, we will roll out all changes regarding e-mail and Slack notifications. That is:
– Slack/Email report after Content Test (Website Dead Links Scan) is finished
– Slack/Email downtime reminders for uptime tests and application monitoring.

There’s no need to describe broadly the Content Test report notification (simple notification with a link to your new report), but you might want to read more about downtime reminders.


Downtime reminders

So, we’ve build application monitoring to scratch our own itch. 

We have many workers and scripts engaged to make AgentSlug.com do what it advertises. Crawlers, dispatchers, cleanup jobs, alert watchers and more.

Every now and then things go south and fail to run. Of course we monitor our logs but that doesn’t cover every possible failure.

This is why we’ve built Application Monitoring.

Every time the worker finishes a job successfully, it sends a signal to our system like “hey, I do my job as promised”. If it doesn’t send a signal, someone has to check what’s going on.

But what if the downtime notification comes during a time that no one watches it? What if it’s hidden between hundreds of other messages?

Then it might stay unnoticed for a while.

To provide solution for that exact problem, we’re happy to announce that for 48 hours since downtime alert starts we will send you a reminders about that.

Those reminders are sent in asymmetric intervals: 0.5h, 1h, 3h, 6h, 12h, 24h, 36h, 48h so if you decide to ignore it for a while, we will not bug you every half an hour.

Additionally, for uptime tests downtime, we will deactivate the test if it stays down for 49 hours.

Application monitoring out of beta

Last announcement to make, application monitoring is no longer free of charge. From now on it will cost 1€ net per month. 

Thank you!

As a last words here: thank you for reading this email so far down. And thank you for staying with us!

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Terms changes and further updates

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Last period was very busy for AgentSlug.com project and it might be important to share some news with you.

Currently, we are working on major changes. Most of them are improvements, but some will affect user experience. We hope it will be much better

Uptime test statistics data limits

With a first version of AgentSlug.com we didn’t have any restrictions regarding the data storage for  each users. We were tiny and it was not an issue to keep the data even for couple of years.

Now however, we are preparing big changes in our infrastructure and to be prepared for them, we need to shrink the database to have it as small as possible.

We decided to introduce a 2 months limit for historical data for all uptime tests we currently maintain.

In the future, there will be an option to avoid this limit, but currently we don’t want to offer it. We did ask some of our users how important it is, we did notify everyone about this change and it seems to be not an issue for anyone at all.

Additionally, we’ve made a copy of all our big database and we will keep it for one month in case of someone didn’t get the message at the right time and could not copy some crucial statistics.

What’s next?

Content Tester

This is the feature we are working on for a long time, but finally it’s reaching a beta version. When it will go public, our service will be much more powerful, able to crawl wholes website looking for all any broken links. Currently it works on our test accounts and we are not ready to publish it yet, but do everything we can to make it available for our customers as soon as possible.

New web application, payment methods and billing system

Along with Content Tester, we will release new and shiny web application, based on React.js and blazing fast. When new app will be ready, additionally to PayPal we will also offer Credit Card payments. Also, we will drop current “points” billing system and offer more understandable system based on € (EUR) currency.

One thing won’t change for sure, we will still charge with explicit permission and with no hidden costs. Free tier will be available as well, so if you are testing your website for free, nothing will change for you in this matter.

If you have any doubts or questions regarding future changes, feel free to contact us any time.

Best wishes!

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Free of charge uptime monitoring

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From now on, you can test your site completely free of charge with AgentSlug.com.

We have just added 5000 points for each of our users and we will do it every month for everyone. 5000 checks is more than enough to monitor a single website during whole month with 10 minutes interval uptime monitoring check.  And from now on, it’s all completely free of charge.

It means that everyone gets additional 5000 checks without any fees, every month, no matter if you’re a paying customer or not.

We might change a little bit the refill policy to avoid some kind of abuse in the future. However, we can promise that everyone will be able to get a single website monitoring free of charge anyway.

Enjoy!