<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 May 2014 23:05, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Why would anyone use SMS?<div><br></div><div>
There are loads of external monitoring services, or you could just get your own colo elsewhere (like I do) and have that email you.</div><div><br></div><div>The assumption is that your email service is independent of your network (i.e. Gmail, etc.) or you could always setup a secondary email account on your device specifically for monitoring.</div>
<div><br></div><div>SMS can be expensive and there is barely any reason to use it at all.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There's also no guarantee of delivery on SMS. If you must have notification outside of email (which itself isn't guaranteed delivery either), then you want a pager service with delivery SLAs.</div>
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