Too Much Media presents open Beta of BillerStatus.com
 

We are releasing BillerStatus.com in an open public beta.

BillerStatus.com is a new website/service from Too Much Media which has been developed to help webmasters and program owners monitor the availability of billing options on the internet.

BillerStatus.com is a multihomed monitor which works by doing an http retrieval of the actual join page of each biller every 10 minutes. This data is reported back to a central location and displayed and logged for historical data.

We have devleoped this service becuase we will be introducing biller enabling and disabling based on the scores this service reports. This will allow NATS clients to set a minimum threshold score for a biller and if that biller should drop below that threshold it will be removed from the cascade until it rises above that threshold again. For instance if biller A goes down at 3am it can be removed from your cascades and reinserted at 6am when it comes back online, all automatically, all while you sleep.

People should be very cautious assuming a biller is down becuase there is a timeout from one location for one data point on a biller. This application has been developed to be mulithomed becuase there are many external factors that may lead to a biller not being reachable from a single point which could happen while the biller is still online and fully functional. Becuase of this we are currently monitoring billers from 3 locations and plan to expand it to 5-10 in the next few weeks. People should only assume a biller is not available if it is unreachable from most if not all locations.

Again, this service is in Beta. We are still doing some testing and tweaking of everything. We wanted to introduce the concept now and get some feedback on it. The auto-cascade enable/disable feature will be introduced with NATS v3 in Vegas.

http://www.billerstatus.com

We have this exact same thing going into Porn Kings within our own proprietary backend software soon, our programmers are already in developement.. Smart idea to do this for sure!

nice... :)

Very Nice bro

wow - heavy stuff

VERY NICE guys ;)

I know we'll love using this! A great addition.

Congrats.

IBILL sucks, but their loadtimes are alwasy fast

NICE! A great feature. Looking forward to NATS v3 in Vegas.

SWEEEET! Congrats John...you have came along way:)

Sweet action John!

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hmmmmmmm

Interesting!

What am I missing?

damn! Very nice feature!

Amazing service to offer. This will be a huge benefit for serious program owners for sure.

Nice work John

great feature... u guys are always innovating... so when's the stock going public? :winkwink:




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Congrats on another great idea :thumbsup

looks great john :thumbsup

not much- do not accuse us of copying you though when our join form watcher with ipalert goes live.

one word... innovation...
nuff said.

Duke

Thats a great tool you have there.

Thanks everyone. We feel this is going to prove to be very useful to both NATS clients and everyone else in the industry.

great idea and congrats

Innovation is definitely good!

Great work John, you guys just dont' stop inovating and its a free upgrade to NATS ....SWEET!

Matt
WIldcash.com

badass :thumbsup

Great feature!!! NATS is the biz :thumbsup

Thanks for the kind words everyone! This is just one of the main cool new features for NATS v3.

very nice guys!

*morning bump*

Looks awesome, nice work John

Very cool , great job guys!

very cool indeed John!

That's a nice feature John.

We have had that feature in MPA3 for quite some time,
and it currently works for Universal Processing, Netbilling, Metacharge and Eprocessing Network, that in case of failure of processor (processor is unavailable) system turns off that processor and when the service is available again the system turn it back on - this to avoid that your primary processor, for instance, is down more than it should after coming back up again.

In comparison to other products you do not have to sit down and watch every ten minutes as the system handles all of that automatically for you.

Looking forward seeing v3.0 aswell :)

Way to thread jack. In the future I'll post in all of your feature threads from now on also :)

Where is your uptime tracking based from? The client's install? Your servers? Why not make the data public for scrutiny?

This is a prerelease of the data. NATS v3 will auto enable/disable processors as stated above. No one needs to sit there and check data every 10 minutes.

If you'd like to start doing some feature comparisions I'd be more than happy to :)

No need to be sensitive about it. I was merely complimenting you on a nice feature.

:thumbsup

Don't worry I will preceed all of my posts in your threads with "Good Job"! or "Nice Feature!" or something so I can later say I was just complimenting you.

Congrats on the new product John :thumbsup

this is indeed a great addition!

thumbs up :)

Yeah nice feature, I'm looking forward to V3 for sure

good stuff :thumbsup