Where did the idea come from?
Early this year I was looking for an easy to configure solution to monitor a handful of WordPress sites. Back in the day I had used
Nagios to monitor large corporate networks and knew the solution was extremely reliable and effective if a bit fiddly to get configured.
Speaking to WordPress users from my
Security Vulnerability Testing Service to gauge interest in a solution to my problem was eye opening. While existing monitoring services are available, they didn't really fit the exact requirements of a WordPress site owner. I realised there was interest in an easy way to monitor
uptime and
security related aspects of WordPress deployments.
WPRecon is the service that came out of those conversations.