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    * Aletra Down?

    Anyone else notice that Alertra http://www.alertra.com is down? Having the site that does my uptime monitoring down does sortof qualify as irony.

    So who watches the watchers?

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    Yes we noticed they were down about two hours ago, Hopefully they will be up soon
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    I was just thinking the same thing, anmhosting: "What irony .."
    What does one host say to the other? "(HostA) Want to go see a movie?" "(HostB) Sure, can your parents drive?"

    I'm premium, and no, I did not have to pay $6 a month to figure that out.

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    Re: Aletra Down?

    Originally posted by anmhosting
    Anyone else notice that Alertra http://www.alertra.com is down? Having the site that does my uptime monitoring down does sortof qualify as irony.

    So who watches the watchers?
    They are still down too... it's lucky I moved to Nagios on a Rackspace network . But to give Alertra credit, they sure have had very good uptime during the past year, this seems to be a rare occasional downtime. Does anyone know why they are down?

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    They are back up

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    Originally posted by anmhosting
    They are back up
    Down here.

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    maybe they needs a uptime monitor. hehehe

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    Looks like down.
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    Well, they were up for a bit. bummer.

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    Down here still too.
    What does one host say to the other? "(HostA) Want to go see a movie?" "(HostB) Sure, can your parents drive?"

    I'm premium, and no, I did not have to pay $6 a month to figure that out.

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    I noticed it was down first, but I did not post anything here....

    I was hearing a lot about them monitoring servers, so I decided to see who they were. They were down. What irony, and just my luck.

    EDIT: Still down, BTW.

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    Unfortunately, the company hosting our DNS has been down all day off and on. We're in the process of moving it to a more reliable company, but as you know that takes time. We are still monitoring however - this outage only affects access to our web site.

    I have enjoyed the comments about us needing a monitoring service. :-) In this case, it's not a matter of us not knowing about it.

    Thanks.

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    Originally posted by nitecoder
    Unfortunately, the company hosting our DNS has been down all day off and on. We're in the process of moving it to a more reliable company, but as you know that takes time. We are still monitoring however - this outage only affects access to our web site.

    I have enjoyed the comments about us needing a monitoring service. :-) In this case, it's not a matter of us not knowing about it.

    Thanks.
    good luck

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    I always thought they were fake in the way they were promoting the service...

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    Originally posted by tandem
    I always thought they were fake in the way they were promoting the service...
    ? What?

    Read up a little bit to their response and i think it will take away what doubt you have... unless i am just taking this completley wrong.. then i apologize
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    I think their service is pretty good, actually. And they have a good rep.

    We all know about things going down from time to time, and sometimes staying down for awhile

    It is good to know they are still pinging away though

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    Originally posted by nitecoder
    Unfortunately, the company hosting our DNS has been down all day off and on. We're in the process of moving it to a more reliable company, but as you know that takes time. We are still monitoring however - this outage only affects access to our web site.

    I have enjoyed the comments about us needing a monitoring service. :-) In this case, it's not a matter of us not knowing about it.
    Stuff happens sometimes and you've just got to grin and bear it.

    I really don't see why folks could think that just because your site was unavailable, that the monitoring was also non-functional.
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    Alertra has been great the last year. They have not missed a downtime for any of our competitors. (What, you don't monitor your competitors networks? Makes for a nice thing to point to for current and potential clients.)

    Seriously, their service is outstanding for the price, and their redundant checking is just that, redundant and reliable.

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    I agree... Alertra have monitoring stations situated around the world, so I would say they are 100% redundant for their monitoring system. Websites do go down sometimes, it's just the way things go in real life. Overall, Alertra are still a very good and strong company.

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