50 sites Betterbeup :glugglug

Hahahah .. fucking hilarious.

If I may give you a small piece of advice for the future:
Keep something in alpha or non-public beta until you think you've sorted all problems out.
The whole purpose of a public beta is to have a finished product and see what damage actual use will cause.

What you did is bad: releasing a public beta of which the performance DOES reflect on others. And you didn't just release it fairly privately, no, you made an announcement about it on GFY.
If it was "just a beta", why did you do that? Why didn't you just contact a few hosts and webmasters for a limited public test?


Also, this might be a good time to tell you that the overall statistics will be worthless, even in the script's completed form if that doesn't involve some major changes. Since it only focuses on downtime, it fails to show the importance of speed.
A host which delivers crappy connectivity and only has a few clients can look extremely good in betterbeup. An example:

Webair has 20 sites in betterbeup. One of those sites is owned by some deadbeat newbie who fails to pay his hosting bill and gets shut down. The newbie doesn't remove the site from betterbeup. All of a sudden, webair has 5% downtime until the site is removed from betterbeup, either by you or the script.

Crappyhostwithbadconnectivityandnosupport.com has exactly 1 site in betterbeup. By some fluke of nature, the particular box the site is on stays up for quite a while.

Now, Crappyhostwithbadconnectivityandnosupport.com looks a whole lot better than webair in betterbeup. A bit odd, don't you think?


The overall stats of betterbeup are totally and completely useless until you decide to integrate speed and user reviews for each host. And - quite obviously - in order for the overall downtime stats to be worth anything, they need to be based on verified webmasters. That is, webmasters who are likely to pay their hosting bill and not get shut down for other reasons either.

Ofcourse, the downtime checker of betterbeup can be very useful for individual webmasters. The notification thingy is a great feature many webmasters can use. You should just change the way you handle the main overview.

You just put everything I was thinking into more polite terms then I ever could have put forth.

You really should make this known up front on the main page. This counter is no where near accurate and relies on a round robbin guestimate that each host will have the same ammount of non-payment account suspensions amongst other client responsible downtime as well as host responsible downtime... and this will some how "even out". C'mon man, think about what you're saying here.

And if you publically launch a buggy beta?

you are genius, especially considering the ammount of insight you would need to be capable of overlooking ;)

i am too drunk to decypher your broken engrish.