I sure am learning a lot from webhostingtalk.com,
and wanted to post a list of FREE site monitoring services which I currently use.

http://www.websitepulse.com
http://www.siteprobe.com/
http://nfiniteweb.com/tools.html
http://www.netmechanic.com (free 8 hr demo, very good)
http://www.internetseer.com
http://www.alertra.com/


Hope this is of use to you all.

Rob McCormack
MoneyTree Software Company

if you have a computer that runs 24/7 you could also download this program, eyeonsite (http://virdi-software.com/eyeonsite/desc.shtml)
i found it through a link on someones signature or homepage that posts here. i've had it for a couple days now, its really cool. if you need to monitor more than 2 sites it'll cost you $50 to register the full version, but otherwise its freeware. :)

Yes, I admit to being the author.

http://www.qwkmon.com also offers free monitoring.

Nice little program Dev. Any chance on porting it to Linux?

Anyone have a perl script that does something similar?

Originally posted by David@Digisurge
Nice little program Dev. Any chance on porting it to Linux?


Sorry,

My knowledge of Linux = nil

Anyone try Server Rat? I have used it and like it a lot. Best of all its FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!


http://www.serverrat.com/

James:D

Originally posted by Dahlia
if you have a computer that runs 24/7 you could also download this program, eyeonsite (http://virdi-software.com/eyeonsite/desc.shtml)
i found it through a link on someones signature or homepage that posts here. i've had it for a couple days now, its really cool. if you need to monitor more than 2 sites it'll cost you $50 to register the full version, but otherwise its freeware. :)

you can also try big brother, net saint, npulse, what's up gold, etc.

Here is more links to other services:

http://nonags.imd.it/miscnet.html

:)

Originally posted by dev
Yes, I admit to being the author.

COOL program Dev. Very small, works great! I will use to monitor site every 4 minutes!

Thanks

Originally posted by phpjames
Anyone try Server Rat? I have used it and like it a lot. Best of all its FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!


http://www.serverrat.com/

James:D

Yea but the site hasn't been updated in months and the service was sucking pretty bad back then... I would get warnings of my site being down while I was on it working on my forum!

Ended up canceling after a while because it got annoying.

Serverrat was giving false stats at times, then it just completely stopped working for me. I didn't like getting messages to join their sponsor who just happened to have 100% uptime according to them. :|

anyone know of a good linux based notifcation software that i can install on a dead computer here at home and if anything goes wrong, for it to email ?

what would have to be done for it to make a phone call?

netsaint (netsaint.org) i believe.

thanks, i ll check that out

http://www.internetseer.com SPAMERS!!!!!! They like to send out SPAM messages saying There appears to be a problem in reaching the following Web page from Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniawhich is TOTALLY bogus and then 2 hours later:We are please to inform you that we no longer have a problem in reaching your Web page from the Philadelphia area:What an under handed thing to do :(

I've gotten the same spams. They couldn't pick a worse time to make me angry! :angry:

Are there any sites that actually keep track of uptime for webhosts? I think it would be a much more objective metric then what the so called "top web hosts" sites are doing. Anyone interested in setting this up with me?

It would have a list of:

web hosting sites with their uptime, current status, date started monitoring
clients using a certain web host could volunteer their site for monitoring too so we get a better picture for shared vs dedicated, unix vs microsoft ...
each site would have a history of date/time and duration of downtime
each site could also have a basic ab benchmarking done


I was thinking of just using php and mysql and doing a cron every 10 minutes finding if there was any packet loss with a ping to the site. Any comments?

Originally posted by dev
Yes, I admit to being the author.

That is a really nice program, any chances to add an email function to it ? :)

at home I use websupervisor .. http://www.neurostock.com/websupervisor/ .. very nice too

EyeOnSite is great...
Only thing I found wrong was if my cable internet went out for a few seconds while EyeOnSite was checking. (Every minute) I would report things down, and I would go check and they would be up, because my internet wasn't down long enough for me to notice. Other then that it is great.

I am using easymonitor.com and like it.

There are few similar softwares that run on Linux.

1. Netsaint - www.netsaint.org
2. Big Brother - www.bb4.com

If you have colocation, hardware, or server that support snmp, you can use OpenNMS - www.opennms.org

I recommend those netsaint and bigbrother if you only want to monitor your servers and services.

btw.. all of them are free.. :)

Do these run on each server or can you run these remotely from a computer always connected to the internet to check services on multiple servers??

Let me also introduce a very simple Russian host monitoring site, which is reliable, allows you to show how reliable is your host to your customers and has a mirror site in the USA.

Please visit: http://hm.msk.ru

And it is free, of course ;)

Here is a simple PHP script I found a while ago:

http://www.jtlnet.com/php/up.php3

-Jeff