8 hours ago, norman said:

What happens to it if you die?

 

Your alarm system gets haunted and monitored from the afterlife

9 hours ago, norman said:

What happens to it if you die?

 

There's another developer involved who would provide continuation.

 

We're working to package the whole platform up for companies who want to buy it to provide the service themselves, but it does require technical knowledge of Linux, database internals and aws, so not many alarm companies would cope with running the platform themselves.

26 minutes ago, GalaxyGuy said:

 

There's another developer involved who would provide continuation.

 

We're working to package the whole platform up for companies who want to buy it to provide the service themselves, but it does require technical knowledge of Linux, database internals and aws, so not many alarm companies would cope with running the platform themselves.

Yes at £1 a month it's not exactly a problem lol , 

 

companies go bust overnight , i wonder what the customers do , probably forget to cancel there £25p/m

51 minutes ago, GalaxyGuy said:

We're working to package the whole platform up for companies who want to buy it to provide the service themselves, but it does require technical knowledge of Linux, database internals and aws, so not many alarm companies would cope with running the platform themselves.

 

Sound like they'd need an IT guy, cira 5p a a message & min charge of £1 a month = lots & lots of connections to make it pay ?

Lack of volume would be a problem imo, same with any security platform. 

3 hours ago, MrHappy said:

 

Sound like they'd need an IT guy, cira 5p a a message & min charge of £1 a month = lots & lots of connections to make it pay ?

 

 

Yes, the monthly server costs alone are in the hundreds, so would be too much of an overhead for a small company with an estate of only a few hundred sites.

 

The main SelfMon platform has processed over 30M events so far and has very little overhead apart from the points where Amazon force database or EC2 service updates. The forced updates require intervention to re-build the platform on new instance versions to allow seamless transition. Ie. the servers need to keep receiving, or the panels complain of ARC failure.

Can you not just run your own servers?

Needs to be multi-site. So at least two separate systems in different buildings - preferably different areas with different power/network infrastructure. The systems also need maintenance to ensure they are patched and have no issues.

Redundancy, it's an important part of hosting services like this.