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- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16Must have? Yeah.. every blog needs 99.999% of uptime. Somebody is really going to miss reading about what you had for lunch during the 15 minutes your site is down.
- portis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9This is a useless tool if it does not check from multiple locations. Imagine the tracker goes down, and what next? Your host went down? No. Still that event will upset the uptime stats regardless. Hence, if you want a proper uptime tracker, you will need to use one with trackers around the world for redundancy.
BTW, the digg link is SPAM for some sort of webhosting service. Reported as "spam" accordingly. - unncola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Well, I can tell you that yes they probably are lying to you. 99.999% up time means its down about five and a half minutes a year, which is not enough time for more then 3 reboots. On most the servers I've had experience with 99.999 isn't possible, which is why most hosts claim 99.9%
- NiceComeback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Except that not all blogs are personal blogs...
ex: http://www.pocketsynch.com A lot of sites that give great up to date info on all types of subjects are in blog format.
Hell half the news sites out there are actually blogs, only difference is they're not running wordpress... - HMMaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5the two uptime tracker im using:
http://host-tracker.com/
http://www.siteuptime.com/ - ft6ug0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6this is clearly spam.
by the way, there are free monitoring services that checks your host every 30 minutes or less.
i believe somebody found a way for gaming digg, again... - Pogostick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Sooo, what makes this one different from all the other uptime tools?
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, perhaps the 0.001 is network-down time, it wouldn't be hard to have multiple machines in an HA-cluster : that way you could reboot/power-off one machine, and still have the website accessible, then when the other machine is back-up, do the same with the other machines. It'd make sense particularly on shared-hosting servers, where taking one machine offline could take down many sites
- furyg3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4As a systems administrator, I seriously doubt that this Uptime Tracker has 99.999% uptime, itself.
I also seriously doubt that the connections between this service and whatever hosting service you are using have 99.999% reliability. If links or peers go down, you are usually routed around them, but this is not always seamless and it is not always the fault of the hosting service or your ISP.
Additionally, this site checks your hosting company 1 time every hour, so it really has no idea about the uptime of your server (your server could be rebooted once a week and this service may never catch them being down in a whole year).
The end result of all these factors is that people WHO DO have reliable hosting providers may think that they don't because of errors unrelated to their host; however, people WHO DON'T have reliable hosting providers may never know how bad their host is, due to the way that this service checks.
It truly is the worst of both worlds. - WetSplatter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It isn't about getting credit, in an online market place being down is not acceptable. Being down costs money, not just in lost sales but in a PPC market, like Google Adwords and similar you are paying for traffic you arn't getting.
Who's to blame, your host provider or your server? If it's you server it's time for new IT department and if it's the host time to move the server. - WetSplatter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Not to be rude, but either you overlooked it (or like me you highly doubt it):
"We use 23 different servers located around the world to make sure you are accessible everywhere"
I agree, We use a pay-for service for our servers and sometimes a connection between one of the check servers and ours goes down but not the actual server or connection to our server so we get false down time. - mavenED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1www.1and1.com is good at lying about their uptime. My site and client sites was out 6 times in a matter of 3 weeks! I lost hundreds of dollars and all i get is one month worth of not paying them. I am researching the cost of my own server. ***** them!
- Rickard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Only for blogs AND I need to register to use it? Buried.
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Nobody gives a ***** about your crappy blog, but in case they did...
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"As a systems administrator, I seriously doubt that this Uptime Tracker has 99.999% uptime, itself."
As someone with a browser, they seem to have servers in a bunch of countries, so if one out of ~10 claims the site is down, chances are it's a problem with that one node, if they all report it's down, then it's probably the site-to-be-checked that is down.
But, the point about checking every hour is valid - Although it's kind of unavoidable, unless you check, well, continuously, there is no way to be sure they aren't down for 59minutes at exactly the right time, bring the machine up for a minute then be down for another 59 minutes.
It's impractical to check too often (From their point of view, and that of the hosting company), it's kind of hard to pick a good delay between checking, which makes the results inacurate - Although I suppose it depends on your definition of downtime..
A site that gets 1 visitor a day probably won't care about an hour or two of down time, but a site that gets several hits a second will be extremely annoyed at even a few minutes of down time - Then again, if your site gets several visitors a second, chances are your not going to be using some random website to monitor your uptime/availability.. - ZigZam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3How did this spam make the homepage. There is no way you can get an accurate reading when it only checks once every 60 minutes. It needs to check every minute.
- WetSplatter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Except it isn't for your "site", it's for Blogs only. Misleading title.
- nonchallant0819, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0This is a great story... found this one through http://www.google.com
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http://www.TopNotchCarpentry.com - krunk4ever, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I've been using internetseer: http://www.internetseer.com/ which provides checking every 60minutes, weekly reports, and so on for free.
//krunk (^_^x) - Ziggyff, on 01/09/2008, -0/+0I prefer to http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/. It is smart has lots of features, but still very cheap.
- timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Actually, the bigger issue is the 60 minute check times. That means if you have just one small hiccup, you get penalized for a full hours worth of downtime. Just one of those downtimes and you go from 100% to 99.86%. With a lot of hosts claiming 99.9% uptime, that basically means they have to be up 100% of the time for this tool to be accurate, which isn't fair. The 10 minute interval is a little bit better, but you only get 5 checks while the server is down before it counts. There's also the issue that it aggregates it all to one number. If a downtime happens at 3am while no one is visiting your site, does it really matter? It does if you look at the end result rather than the individual data.
This is why I use internal monitoring agents (Zabbix) that check every 5 seconds to ensure nearly continuous accuracy of data. - offsky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It's mostly pointless to track this, unless you are thinking of switching hosts. At least with my host, they said that they would refund me for downtime beyond that allowed by 99.999%. So, I was reimbursed for 1 hour of downtime time or $0.70. Yippee!
- phoenixd, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Yeah, but this is free too... Thumbs up for this.
- lozzd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I use hosttracker, very good. Image for your site, and SMS text messaging when the machine you're monitoring has any problems. (even reports the problem e.g. host not found, connection refused)
It'll also do specific commands e.g. check a value on a certain page, and let you know if its out of limits. Very useful!
Wow, I should work for them :D - azhes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Signed up to try it and I didn't find any information about uptime tracking...
I will continue to use http://www.pingdom.com - NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I'm going to use this to track the uptime of my home internet connection. It seems to go down everyday from 7am - 7pm on the dot and when it is working I have 50-70% packet loss.
- JEmerson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Almost no companies actually specify in the man on the street summery of their service, but that 99.9% update, 99% of the time, is referring to the network connection. The server could be dead for a year, as long as the pipe it's not drawing anything from is active. Many will still throw you some credit for server downtime to build goodwill or stop complaints, but it's technically not related to strict written policy most of the time.
- AllisonG, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Damn fine tool!
- stef686, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Great tool, will come in handy!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2'Nuff people say, you know they can't believe, Jamaica, we have a bobsled team.
- Malaiac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0It's a regular blog directory, with just a 60 mn ping ...
how can this hit hp ? - napy8gen, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5nice tool
- moft, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0nice tool for those cheap amateur website uploaders (bloggers, opinion writers, fan siters, deluded cyber-goths and train enthusiasts) on a $2 a month plan trying to scam free months off thier host who is cramming so many people on that one server that downtime is somehow supposed to be kept at a lowly 0.01%.
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