Comments on: Pingdom.com – comprehensive uptime monitor service http://www.rarst.net/web/pingdom/ cynical thoughts on software and web Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:03:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: wasitup.com – simple site downtime alerts | Rarst.net http://www.rarst.net/web/pingdom/#comment-22235 wasitup.com – simple site downtime alerts | Rarst.net Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:28:35 +0000 http://www.rarst.net/?p=504#comment-22235 [...] June 15th, 2010 Web | Replywasitup.com – simple site downtime alerts I am very fond of Pingdom for uptime monitoring, most comprehensive solution. On other hand free account is only good for a [...] [...] June 15th, 2010 Web | Replywasitup.com – simple site downtime alerts I am very fond of Pingdom for uptime monitoring, most comprehensive solution. On other hand free account is only good for a [...]

]]> By: Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware http://www.rarst.net/web/pingdom/#comment-11270 Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:12:24 +0000 http://www.rarst.net/?p=504#comment-11270 One minute sounds pretty good. You are right - short downtimes are missed when interval of checking is 30 mins. One minute sounds pretty good. You are right – short downtimes are missed when interval of checking is 30 mins.

]]> By: Rarst http://www.rarst.net/web/pingdom/#comment-11267 Rarst Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:34:26 +0000 http://www.rarst.net/?p=504#comment-11267 @Ishan Well, I'd say cheap hosting is unreliable. :) It is not impossible to get extremely reliable hosting, but it will come with adequately high price tag. I think half an hour is too large interval (even if it is common for free services of such kind). It won't catch short downtimes, that can easily add up to considerable sum over time. Pingdom shortest available interval is one minute. @Ishan

Well, I’d say cheap hosting is unreliable. :) It is not impossible to get extremely reliable hosting, but it will come with adequately high price tag.

I think half an hour is too large interval (even if it is common for free services of such kind). It won’t catch short downtimes, that can easily add up to considerable sum over time.

Pingdom shortest available interval is one minute.

]]> By: Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware http://www.rarst.net/web/pingdom/#comment-11266 Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:28:54 +0000 http://www.rarst.net/?p=504#comment-11266 Nice article Rarst. I agree that web hosting is normally quite unreliable. I had an instance of my website going down at a time when some advertiser wanted to review the website, and that cost me the advertising deal. I sometimes wish there was a way to have website traffic redirected to some backup website in those instances. It might be hard to keep backup website in sync with the master one, but I feel it would be worth the effort. I also use a similar service to continuously monitor my website. I use "mon.itor.us" for that (that's the actual website name). It checks my website once every half hour, and sends me alerts whenever it is down. This one is also completely free, and I haven't seen any limits on free account. Really like it. Nice article Rarst. I agree that web hosting is normally quite unreliable. I had an instance of my website going down at a time when some advertiser wanted to review the website, and that cost me the advertising deal. I sometimes wish there was a way to have website traffic redirected to some backup website in those instances. It might be hard to keep backup website in sync with the master one, but I feel it would be worth the effort.

I also use a similar service to continuously monitor my website. I use “mon.itor.us” for that (that’s the actual website name). It checks my website once every half hour, and sends me alerts whenever it is down. This one is also completely free, and I haven’t seen any limits on free account. Really like it.

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