Comments on: 9 Options for Tracking Downtime http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/ Web Design and Development Blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:20:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Chris Wright http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-42140 Chris Wright Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:27:00 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-42140 @Eric: The reason you have an external service do this for you (and not just set up your own solution on your own network with Nagios) is because you want something totally independent of your firewall and outside your network and because you might want an independent unbiased third party to be recording info for you when you have a dispute with your hosting provider. And I know there's a lot of mention of 'free' services and these are often adequate; it just depends on what you need. If you want historical data recorded for the last few years, page load times recorded, etc., you'll usually have to get a paid service. And for reference, I use Uptrends (www.uptrends.com) which I see isn't mentioned by anyone here. Personally, I'm quite happy with them. @Eric: The reason you have an external service do this for you (and not just set up your own solution on your own network with Nagios) is because you want something totally independent of your firewall and outside your network and because you might want an independent unbiased third party to be recording info for you when you have a dispute with your hosting provider.

And I know there’s a lot of mention of ‘free’ services and these are often adequate; it just depends on what you need. If you want historical data recorded for the last few years, page load times recorded, etc., you’ll usually have to get a paid service.

And for reference, I use Uptrends (www.uptrends.com) which I see isn’t mentioned by anyone here. Personally, I’m quite happy with them.

]]> By: Geeths http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-37962 Geeths Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:29:45 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-37962 Hi, Thanks for the mention.. You could also add 100pulse.com - A free website monitoring service, with 5 min interval, instant email alerts, rss feeds, server uptime/downtime monitoring... the best of its kind i used so far.. Hi, Thanks for the mention.. You could also add 100pulse.com – A free website monitoring service, with 5 min interval, instant email alerts, rss feeds, server uptime/downtime monitoring… the best of its kind i used so far..

]]> By: Ankit Kedia http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-28384 Ankit Kedia Fri, 01 May 2009 09:25:14 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-28384 Hello people, I have one another solution, why not try to reduce your costly downtime, get instant alerts as soon as your website is unreachable or faces downtime. APlusMonitoring (www.aplusmonitoring.com) is a solution for your whole company. The service monitors your website, server availability and performance externally from its worldwide network of monitoring locations, 24/7 and every day of the year. When your website or network fails to respond, we notify you instantly via Email, SMS/Text Messaging, RSS so that you can hit the right chord at the right time and fix them before it costs you money, customers or reputation. I personally am using the paid service from aplusmonitoring.com, the price range here are very much affordable.. it also provides free lifetime service with 1 hour interval, all you have to do is register on the website. I would recomend you must try it. Hello people,

I have one another solution, why not try to reduce your costly downtime, get instant alerts as soon as your website is unreachable or faces downtime. APlusMonitoring (www.aplusmonitoring.com) is a solution for your whole company. The service monitors your website, server availability and performance externally from its worldwide network of monitoring locations, 24/7 and every day of the year. When your website or network fails to respond, we notify you instantly via Email, SMS/Text Messaging, RSS so that you can hit the right chord at the right time and fix them before it costs you money, customers or reputation.

I personally am using the paid service from aplusmonitoring.com, the price range here are very much affordable.. it also provides free lifetime service with 1 hour interval, all you have to do is register on the website.

I would recomend you must try it.

]]> By: Tom Work http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-27255 Tom Work Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:51:47 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-27255 Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog? Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?

]]> By: spenser http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-25864 spenser Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:20:05 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-25864 Lots of people like the free service at<a href="http://basicstate.com" rel="nofollow">basicstate.com</a> At least that's what they say in their emails :D Lots of people like the free service atbasicstate.com

At least that’s what they say in their emails :D

]]> By: Steve morris (webmojo Yorkshire) http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-24451 Steve morris (webmojo Yorkshire) Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:14:37 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-24451 Monitoring uptime is so impotent I used to use a cheap host who would go off-line for no apparent reason. Ok if your off-line for an hour a month you may think no big shakes , but the problem is when you are spiderd and no site is up, you can expect your serps to drop Monitoring uptime is so impotent I used to use a cheap host who would go off-line for no apparent reason. Ok if your off-line for an hour a month you may think no big shakes , but the problem is when you are spiderd and no site is up, you can expect your serps to drop

]]> By: Watchman http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-23024 Watchman Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:51:39 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-23024 I use http://www.Webserviceguard.com. Very reliable service! I use http://www.Webserviceguard.com. Very reliable service!

]]> By: Online Poker http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-9949 Online Poker Mon, 19 May 2008 06:23:06 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-9949 Thats great.You provide a very useful info to us.At least we can make a compare which is the best programs to us. Thats great.You provide a very useful info to us.At least we can make a compare which is the best programs to us.

]]> By: Tanix Group http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-9771 Tanix Group Tue, 13 May 2008 14:11:38 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-9771 Yes, such services are very useful. Nikola, you can choose the hosting provider who has the percent of downtime in the contract. I think it can help. Yes, such services are very useful. Nikola, you can choose the hosting provider who has the percent of downtime in the contract. I think it can help.

]]> By: Joe http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/downtime/#comment-9647 Joe Fri, 09 May 2008 22:08:46 +0000 http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/?p=285#comment-9647 I'm a big fan of ipPatrol. It isn't free, but highly customisable. I’m a big fan of ipPatrol. It isn’t free, but highly customisable.

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