Contigency plan

[Jer5000]

Sorry, not trying to be negative - I'm just curious before I drop a couple hundred bucks on some of your gear...

In the event ioBridge servers are down for an extended period, or after some time they are offline for good, what options will your customers have? Can/will users be able to create and host their own server to communicate with the devices?

[jason]

The ioBridge dev team has been running websites and services in one form or another since 1996.  Obviously nothing quite like this though.  I understand your concern.  As far as outages go, we do have a certain amount of redundancy built into our system.  But that doesn't mean there aren't going to be times when the servers are down.  We actually do need to pull them offline every once in a while to do upgrades (hence the "Beta").  We try to keep these service windows as short as we can.

As far as us going offline for good...  we are going to do everything we can to stay in business.  Just as you may drop a hundred dollars on our equipment, our team has a considerable amount on the line as well.  If ioBridge goes under we'll be losing mortaged homes, retirement savings, college funds, etc..  so needless to say, we're a very motivated bunch.

If the worst does happen and we are forced to close up shop, then we'll release the server software so the modules can live on without us.   

[geraldcor]

That sounds good enough to me. A simple yet convincing sales pitch. Thank. My order will be arriving soon.

[SouthForkWeb]

Not necessarily a sales pitch, but a very honest answer I believe. Thanks for clarifying the backup plan Jason

[sbadger]

I see that you will release the server code if in the unfortunate event that the company doesn't survive, but what language is it written in (C, Java, etc)? I want just be sure that I will be able to use it, you know just in case.

Thanks

[iobridge]

In the coming parts there will be servers all over the world hosted by community members and commercial partners as well as closed system servers for integration projects.

Our plan is to be around for a long time to come and the technology will evolve and become open.

Give us a chance -- we are not going anywhere!

[benyl]

So in order to Use ioBridge, we have to use your servers?  We cannot publish to our own?

Sorry, I am a noob.

[SMyers]

So in order to Use ioBridge, we have to use your servers?  We cannot publish to our own?

Sorry, I am a noob.

If by publish you mean use your own custom HTML, then no you can use your own servers. You can even just paste them in a text file that you save to your local computer. As far as publishing is concerned you can put it where ever you like.

However your module does talk to the iobridge servers for the behind the scenes stuff. This allows you to have access to your stuff from anywhere.

[benyl]

If by publish you mean use your own custom HTML, then no you can use your own servers. You can even just paste them in a text file that you save to your local computer. As far as publishing is concerned you can put it where ever you like.

However your module does talk to the iobridge servers for the behind the scenes stuff. This allows you to have access to your stuff from anywhere.

Just read the FAQ and noticed that they aren't releasing this yet.

I have two hosted servers that will allow me access from anywhere and the IPs don't change.  I like the idea of being able send the data to my own server.  It is one less leg for the data to hop and also one less point of failure to trouble shoot.

[Haviland]

I have existing monitoring tools which use SNMP to create graphs and alerts based on results from sensors.  Optimally, I would be able to do a direct SNMP query to the device itself, but at the very least it would be acceptable to have an easy tool to query the iobridge servers.  Has a method for this type of access been defined?  Even if it required performing a query on an existing server which called out to the iobridge servers on a regular basis, that could work.

[SMyers]

The developers have released a data feed API:
http://www.iobridge.com/technology/Data_Feed_API.pdf

With this and a little javascript, PHP, or your language of choice you could do pretty much anything you want in the form of creating graphs and polling data (however off the I think you can only poll once every 10 seconds).