Uptimes, Downtimes and Web Monitors

This sort of “issue” on web hosting is really inevitable, I could email support but I bet they already know that something is wrong on their servers.

The site was out last night, about 2AM. Came back on at about 3:10AM and went down again this morning at 9. Those maybe be estimates but I get an idea when it was out and back online again. They are called website monitors, and this website is being monitored by three (3), yes three (just added another one this morning) free online monitors. I’m not sure how reliable those web tools are but they’re almost always correct. And add to the three, I have an on-demand site checker that checks the site on different places on the world.

So if you must know, these are the sites that I use:

  1. Montastic.com » which I posted on here long ago and been using since then and it really “doesn’t suck”
  2. KillerSites.com Site Monitor
  3. SiteUptime.com » the one I just signed up and
  4. Alertra.com » my on-demand site checker from 6 points on the world.

All are free and have email alerts, except for the last one. Now, if all those sites sent a “Website Down” email alert, then I will be dead sure that it’s down. It’s just nice to know what’s happening on my site. Now, I’m waiting for my host to have an email alert of their own. I think I would prefer alerts from my own host saying that my site is down.

2 Responses to “Uptimes, Downtimes and Web Monitors”

Avoyan Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:37 am

mon.itor.usis a free website uptime and performance monitoring service with support of 11 protocols, Ajax interface, and gadgets for all popular gadget sites like Personal Google, Netvibes, Yahoo! widgets and MS Live.com

David Says:
December 7th, 2006 at 6:09 pm

Yes, it would be nice if all hosts could send out alerts when your site goes down. The problem is that your host will most probably monitor their servers from the inside, so you will not know if there is a routing problem from somewhere or other external factors. And another thing, can you trust your host? :)

External monitoring will test your site in the same way your visiters come to your site, through different networks around the world.

Regards
David
http://www.pingdom.com

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