There's another alternative which claim to do face detection (not recognition) and more coming up soon http://sightborg.com.

Ah, pingdom failed to alert us via push got only the email alert (luckily it was exactly when the team is warmed up and ready to hit the keyboard :) 11AM at Israel)

I have an IFTTT recipe to get Push notification if you have a server outage http://ifttt.com/recipes/25122

Cool! thanks, adding it now (IFTT rocks)