What are some good free/not free links and software that you all use for your business (downtime tracking, background checks, etc)?



I just added http://www.visualware.com/visualroute/livedemo.html recently.

Wow, great link!

Here are two I use now and then...

http://combat.uxn.com/ - IP Lookups / Whois / Pinging, etc
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/ - How long sites have been up

The following are more Business development / research related, but thought I would share them here as well.

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ - How often searches are done on the Internet
http://www.alexa.com/ - Ranking of web site traffic / related sites
http://www.spiderhunter.com/spiderlist/ - Lists of bots & spiders on the Internet
http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html - The Internet's history

I would be curious to see what else other people use!

nice list rebies.

I just added the whois lookup from http://www.softnik.com/ tonight. looks like it has some more useful tools also.

I use SamSpade almost every day

samspade.org

There are some other DNS and IP diggers I use when the above isn't working but I haven't bookmarked them.

Except:

http://network-tools.com/
http://www.tracert.com/cgi-bin/ping.pl

Here's a terrific resource:

http://uptime.openacs.org/

Don't forget the search engine submitters and last not least: Google Toolbar (when are they going to get a version I can use on my browser?)