Hi there,

I'd like to know if you have any experience with monitoring services to check if my website is really up at 100%.

Could you advise me any?

Thanks, Laura

Originally Posted by laura

Hi there,

I'd like to know if you have any experience with monitoring services to check if my website is really up at 100%.

Could you advise me any?

Thanks, Laura

No website can be up 100% of the time, Even an error in coding on page may show an error page this makes it 99% uptime. Anyone that advertises 100% up time and means it has yet to show themselves

I think you're right but still to have it the highest possible I would need to be alerted or something when I have such mistakes no?

Any ideas?

The best uptime any website can have is 99%. The other 1% your site will be down because the host company will be updating security and other aspects of their servers.

Here's a possible service you could use: http://www.siteuptime.com/

I've never used it though. If you do a search on the Internet you will find several others.

Also check out http://www.alertra.com/

Also see Uptime Calculator
Very cool tool. :-)

I can assure you 100% uptime is possible (I managed it), though should never be advertised as if server work or network changes need to be done, there will be a downtime.

So in short, Can be done...But next to impossible. So they are probably making it up.

in my opinion , if you become intrested to your web server , it will be %100 uptime

You may use hyperspin.com for monitoring your server.

Waw, they are many monitoring services...

Alertra looks interesting I will test it and let you know.

Thanks for your help !!!

Laura

Wow, lots of misconceptions here.

You can go beyond 99 % uptime. In fact 99.9 % and 99.99 % are two very different things. "Nines," the number of them that come after the decimal point, make the difference between a $3 hosting plan and a $300 one.

A lot of network updates can be done "hot," while your site is up, but some cannot. Occasionally any number of things could happen. The Pacific Northwest was hit by intense wind storms, Stanley Park was all but destroyed, and many cities went without power for most of a month. While your server should or better have an uninterruptable power supply it's very possible for the power to go out longer than this, for the box to get hacked ( yes even if it's a macincrap ), or other non-routine things to happen. Anybody who adverts 100 % uptime is either naively optimistic, dishonest, or not really aware of what their business entails.

Also, your site going down for two minutes at 4:30 am probably isn't that big a deal. That's why the $3 hosting plans are so popular, because they're acceptable to most people. If you're running on demand web services or a very high volume store this could be a problem, but for most folks, the very occasional blip in service is okay.

A single server reboot will break your 100% uptime dream. So, what do you think?

Practically if you talk 100% uptime guarantee is not possible as there are various factors which act as a deterrent to the uptime and advertising such offers only displays the false promise of a webhost and they get customers who have little or no knowledge about the web hosting business.

I agree that there is a big difference between 99% and 99.99%.
If you take it to one year it varies from 87 hours to 52 minutes downtime.

I could live with a few downtimes but not too many.

I have looked on the alertra websites but their monitoring offer is way too expensive and so I tried another one I found on Google: http://www.internetvista.com which offers 30 days trial for 5 applications at a 10 minute frequency.
Any experience with them? I can only say that they have a fast support. (I had my answer about how to monitor my website in less then an hour):

They say I should monitor (for my e-commerce business):

- My homepage (at a 1 min frequency with a matching sentence to be sure it is not alternated)
- One page that access to my database (at a 5 minute frequency)
- My forms to be sure they all work (5 min frequency)
- My email server (10 min frequency)

What do you think of it? Anything they forgot?

Thanks a lot, Laura.

Good dal for me. Also try to check them out one more time.