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Buy additional SMS credits with ‘Buy SMS Pack’

Author: Arun

We have just made a couple of useful enhancements to the SMS alerts section.

1. ‘Buy SMS Pack’ option

You can now buy additional SMS packs with your credit card and top up your sms credits.

To buy sms packs, login into your Site24×7 account and click ‘Buy SMS pack’ link under ‘Alerts’ tab.

The charge comes to roughly $0.20 per sms. Be assured that you pay only as per your sms usage.

2. Enable/Disable options for SMS alerts

You can now specify whether you want to be notified via sms when:

  • Your site comes back up.

  • Your site status is ‘Trouble’.

These options will be particulary helpful if you want to receive only critical downtime alerts via SMS.

We invite you to try out these enhancements and let us know your feedback. Please contact support@site24×7.com for any assistance.

Update: There is a slight change to my post. Currently, we provide 10 free SMS alerts per month. Hereafter, it will be 10 free SMS alerts for one time.

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2 Responses to “Buy additional SMS credits with ‘Buy SMS Pack’”

  1. Jean-Francois Arseneault Says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    Can you expand a little on what is meant by ‘trouble’? I’m a current user of yours, but I don’t think I want to get bombarded by problems through SMS, but rather only if a site is unreacheable for x minutes/hours, during the hours of 9 -5 (for example). Any chance we can have more criteria to choose from in a near future? Tks!

    p.s Love your service. I use it to convince clients to switch to my hosting from theirs :)

  2. Arun Says:
    August 1st, 2007 at 4:14 pm

    Jean: Thanks for those nice words about Site24×7.

    Now to answer your question:

    A ‘trouble’ notification is usually sent when

    1. Your site content is modified.
    2. If your sites’ response time crosses some limits you have set.
    3. If some keywords are present or absent on your website.

    It is not used to denote any downtime or site unavailability.

    If you do not wish to receive sms for trouble notifications, you can turn it off under ‘Alerts’ tab. Select the “Dont alert me when my site has ‘Trouble’ status” option under SMS Contacts.

    Also, not sure about what sort of criteria you are looking for. Can you let us know?

    Regards,
    Arun

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