Site Patrol is live on the App Store

So the headline for today’s post is the official release of Site Patrol’s Apple iOS app, which went live on the App Store yesterday. Apple accepted the app in the first round, so I am super pleased.

Site Patrol

Site Patrol monitors your websites, mail servers and more 24/7, and once it detects the connection is failing, it sends an instant app notification, an email and on Pro even an SMS. You also receive a website status page, which shows the health of your site on a public facing web page. Through the app or via the web portal, you can post incident reports and updates that appear on the page within a few seconds.

Oh, I forgot to mention, the app also works on the Apple Watch, so even while your phone is out of sight (subject to connectivity), the watch will ping you a message telling you which website is currently down, and then another when the issue is resolved.

The macOS app is taking a little longer in the Apple review stage, but we are hoping it will be live in the next day or two.

ReaderCount

I am in the early stages of developing an iOS app for ReaderCount, our privacy first website analytics application. I am testing the first beta release on TestFlight, and my first impression is that it looks and works amazing. Even if I do say so myself.

I’ll share updates when I have some screenshots to share.

Email reviews and guides

This week I have covered:

• A Mailflare alternative (heads up, it’s a mail app I developed myself). It’s an honest side by side with Mailflare, including where Mailflare is still the better choice.
• Gmail, spam or trash. Real emails landing in Spam, messages vanishing into the Bin or your own sent mail disappearing, and how to fix each one.
• YunoHost. It turns a Debian server into your own little cloud, with email built in alongside hundreds of apps, and I cover what changed in version 12.
• Mailu. A complete mail server that runs as a set of Docker containers, with webmail, an admin page and spam filtering. I set it up and share what I found and where it falls short.

And I am part way through an in depth walkthrough and review of using a custom domain on iCloud.