My friend contacted me and asked me how he could monitor the uptime for his website. I only know of EasyMonitor, which, yes is pretty good, but is there anything better out there?

Or maybe something that monitors your uptime more than just every 15 minutes?

Thanks
-Darren

Just visited EasyMonitor and it looks like a nice and simple thing. I see that they will relese Expert version soon.

Here are some questions for the hosters. Would you be willing to pay for service like this (per-service-configurable , expert version)?
Does 1$ per month / per server sound too much?
Assuming that the service runs from 2 data centers, what would you suggest as the best locations?
What would be your prefered notification method?

Axel, sorry for jumping in your thread :)

Originally posted by sasha
Just visited EasyMonitor and it looks like a nice and simple thing. I see that they will relese Expert version soon.

Here are some questions for the hosters. Would you be willing to pay for service like this (per-service-configurable , expert version)?
Does 1$ per month / per server sound too much?
Assuming that the service runs from 2 data centers, what would you suggest as the best locations?
What would be your prefered notification method?

Axel, sorry for jumping in your thread :)

LOL $1 a month? Right now Alertra is charging us about oh 32 times that per server monitored :)

Allthough they have some nice features such as automated phone call when a server goes down/sms/aim etc.. monitored from all over the world as well.

I'd pay for the service if I had a way of paying for it...
1$ per month is cheap...
I live in Northern Ireland so I have no idea what would be the best locations :)
Off course, a notification method would be best. (E-mail)

What if I want my one site monitored, not a whole server!?

Originally posted by Axel Teflon
What if I want my one site monitored, not a whole server!?

The way I see it thing should let you monitor what ever you want. You simply add domin.com or IP number as the new server. Then you select services. If you select Web, the thing would simply test if site is available at http://dominORipHere. It would work simmilary for mail, https, dns or watever.

IM is good idea, I did not think of that. once I thought of were emil, phone and pager.

Originally posted by DJiMPaCT

LOL $1 a month? Right now Alertra is charging us about oh 32 times that per server monitored :)


When you think about it there is no much expenses associated with this. Couple ded servers with modem and no licenced software and phone lines would be only expense.

except that a good monitoring service should have far higher uptime than those they monitor. The expense is (or should be) in paying for those 4-9 or 5-9 (99.999%) servers.

They're also not too good if their connection out fails so it's redundant backups, multiple locations *yadda yadda*

Greg Moore

Off not. Is there any way you could monitor port 80 with a shell command? Sounds weird ya.

Originally posted by interactive
Off not. Is there any way you could monitor port 80 with a shell command? Sounds weird ya.

you could use telnet 80, wget, links ...