Across the board QWK.net seems to be a winner in terms of services, rates, assistance, etc. and I just wanted to do a last search to find reasons my company should avoid them...

They are excellent service, they have a lot of notification messages it will help you keep your uptime better.

Originally posted by Palm
They are excellent service, they have a lot of notification messages it will help you keep your uptime better. It sounds like you're talking specifically about the uptime monitoring service at qwkmon.net, while Elle was apparently referring to webhosting from qwk.net. Granted, the same company, but different services with possibly different reputations.

Just to clarify, though I don't first-hand knowledge of either one.

in the past week I've received two alerts from them but upon checking on the machine and connectivity I can find nothing wrong with it. Other tools such as WhatsUP (running on my home machine) noticed no problems. Now my uptime is reported as something like 98.75, when in reality I haven't had any (noticable) down time.

-neil

Yeah - I'm interested in feedback about both QWK.net and QWK.mon

I've had similar problems with false downtime reports.... But for the price, you can hardly argue.

Netwhistle.com was the previous network monitoring service we used, never had a false alert, very relaible, but very pricey... :rolleyes:

Oh I though about server monitoring software.

Their monitoring service SUCKS. It said my site was down when it was really UP.

:rolleyes:

how long have you been using them? do they give you false downtime reports often?

Elle, I don't use qwkmon so I can't tell you anything about that service. I have an active online forum, and my members and staff let me know pretty quick if something's wrong. And it's better to get a false report of "down" than a false report of "up". <g>

I'm a happy QWK.Net customer (dedicated server) since January of this year. Downtime has been minimal, problems are corrected quickly, most of them have been caused by the very demanding forum software we use. Just take it to the telephone and not to e-mail and you'll get immediate service.

Regarding qwkmon.net (monitoring service):
never got a false alarm.

Originally posted by B-Broker
Their monitoring service SUCKS. It said my site was down when it was really UP.

:rolleyes:

I never got a false downtime report.
They have two servers and if one of them send fals reports you should contact them.