Hi All,

I have noticed several websites offering site monitors in the past, and have come accross a few comprehensive ones, that offers this service free.

What are your opinions as to who gives the best performance and who does the best job as far as accuracy? I have some hostings I need to monitor, and see how they are doing.

I saw one that was pretty good, with simple interface yet very detailed and sophisticated results, with down time, and file d/l speeds.. I wish i remember the URL.. :eek:


Thanks~! :gthumb:

that offers this service free.

Nothing is ever free. You may think so, but I'm willing to bet that you'll pay in one way or another.

May be:

http://www.siteuptime.com/siteuptime (http://www.siteuptime.com/)

easymonitor (http://www.easymonitor.com/)

siteprobe (http://www.siteprobe.com)

Wow!

http://www.siteuptime.com Service is GREAT!

Thanks for the sites,

I am still looking for the one I saw previously.

Once you submit or check a host/server, it would show you dotted lines or cells, where it had red squres, indicating down time or slow response. It had all big companies, and was very professional. It was simple site, didn't look so shiny and did not have much graphics. It had link, "submit your host" , or "let us monitor".

It wasn't a personal or one to one service like those that notify you once it is down or when there is trouble..

Anyone knows what that site was?? Godddd.. why didn't I add it to my Favs? I add every junk, and I forget to add something like that.. :confused: :eek:

Thanks

from experience siteuptime gives a lot of false positives. Their connections I think have more issues than our servers :)

If you have many servers, you can setup your own software such as nagios to monitor each other.

Originally posted by sprintserve
from experience siteuptime gives a lot of false positives. Their connections I think have more issues than our servers :)


Yup! I spent much time recently chasing after what I thought were problems at my side being reported by siteuptime, but it was not my servers.

I still like Easymonitor and Siteuptime the best

you can try http://alertra.com/ :D

For free services, I haven't seen a single false positive from Easymonitor since I started testing (hmmm... testing uptime of uptime monitors :erm: ) in April, but I think they show false uptime as my own monitors log some downtime which they've never recorded.

Originally posted by SROHost
For free services, I haven't seen a single false positive from Easymonitor since I started testing (hmmm... testing uptime of uptime monitors :erm: ) in April, but I think they might err to the side of uptime because my own monitoring shows downtime which they've never recorded.


Thats because they check your site every 5-10 minutes i think :)

Well. Siteuptime checks every 15. Coincidently, so does easymonitor.

The only one that's more frequent is alertra.com. However those are whooping expensive.

Originally posted by sprintserve
from experience siteuptime gives a lot of false positives. Their connections I think have more issues than our servers :)

If you have many servers, you can setup your own software such as nagios to monitor each other.


Yup, I decided to drop siteuptime as they were reporting that I was only giving out about 96%-98% uptime (Depending on which server) when I knew it was either 99% or 100% uptime. And I knew it was on their side, because it would say all 3 servers went down at the same time and came back up at the same time. Thankfully for me, I didn't actually have 3 servers going down at the same time.

Originally posted by Hoobastank68
Thats because they check your site every 5-10 minutes i think :) Sure, it's a free service (and only testing every 15 minutes), so I'm not expecting perfection... but over four months you'd expect them to catch at least one of several nasty (if short) outages we've had when Verio and Glbx routers were taken down.

Well according to easymonitor.... in one single 24 hour period (June 6th to be exact) I managed to log 12 1/2 days of downtime.

Hmm, almost 2 weeks downtime in less than 24 hours lol. Not accurate in the least IMHO.

www.InternetSeer.com
SWR just recommended that 1 to me, might want to go check it out :D

Aren't there some open source monitors? Maybe free, or kust a one time fee?

I use siteuptime and its great after all and siteuptime is free

It seems some hosts won't let you refer to easymonitor as proof of any downtime. I have it on 2 of my websites, one site that I know goes down quite a bit (shared hosting), and my main website, that doesn't go down all that often (usually only scheduled downtimes), and I see that easymonitor reports the one down all the time (ie yesterday about 6 times) but on the other one, it rarely goes down. Is a problem with easy monitor? Or more likely my host (overloaded server)?

Edit-

Uptime 98.44%
For 22 hours, 34 mins

Date Time Description Duration

06.22.2003 02:16 DNS lookup failed 39 mins
06.19.2003 14:56 DNS lookup failed 16 mins
06.16.2003 11:25 Connection refused 1 hour, 12 mins
06.07.2003 22:48 HTTP Error 500 Can't connect to www.mydomain.com:80 (Timeout) 16 mins

Originally posted by Hoobastank68
I still like Easymonitor and Siteuptime the best

you can try http://alertra.com/ :D

Best variant of course Alerta, but costs a lot money! Certainly if are necessary exact results, to pay is better! :)