Using AWS Lambda to call and text you when your servers are down
From a engineering point of view this is really cool, but as an ex-sysadmin I feel that I need to reiterate and emphasize something that is alluded to in the second paragraph.<p>Too many things can go wrong and you are all around better off outsourcing this to something like Pingdom. You don't have sufficient levels of reliability, you aren't dual homed across twilio and another phone system. Maybe the cause of your outage is that AWS is having issues. Now your site and your monitoring is down.<p>Much better to outsource to people who obsess over doing this right and making sure they are properly redundant.