[VoiceOps] Plivo Offline, Domain Expired; Out of Business?

[Keln Taylor]

Just to clarify, you are saying that you monitor the domain and SSL cert of
your vendors so you can notify them?
That's cool.


Sincerely,
Keln Taylor
870-204-2121
kelntaylor at gmail.com

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:

> We should all strive to NOT do that. We integrated a once a day check into
> our Monitoring platform that starts warning Operations 30 days before the
> domain expires, and actually pages people starting at 9am on Weekdays 7
> days before if it hasn't been renewed. We had to tweak it for how our
> registrar publishes that information, and we automated renewals so it
> rarely goes off, but when it does we can get in front of it.
>
> We have the same thing in place for our public and internal SSL/TLS
> Certificates.
>
> If you are running a business on the web and don't automate monitoring of
> critical infrastructure, you get outages like this. Heck, we started
> monitoring the domain and SSL certs of our critical-path dependent
> services/vendors since another outage many years ago after an SSL cert
> expired.
>
> Plivo wasn't in our mix, as they aren't critical-path, but they are now,
> and they are still in alarm.  Operations now will be automatically notified
> when we can actually see Plivo again.
>
> Beckman
>
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Gavin Henry wrote:
>
> On 23 April 2017 at 17:31, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've done it. Just got distracted, got to fiddling around and thinkin'
>>> bout things, and before I know it, the domain's expired and I'm no longer
>>> on the register of respectable party guests...
>>>
>>
>> Embarrassing. I'm sure I'll do it at some point. :-)
>>
>>
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