Monitor Your Server’s Uptime

Posted on October 10, 2006, under Development.

Yup, Google bought YouTube, and said “I told you so” in to many ney-sayers in the form of $1.62 billion. However, it has been all over the RSS feeds and my night news cast, so I am not going to repeat all of that.

Monitoring your web server’s uptime is an important part of web hosting. If not for making sure that your site and services are available to your audience, you are also paying hard earn dollars for your hosting and making sure your hosting company is doing it’s job is important. There are several services I have used in the past, and am currently using to monitor your server’s uptime.

Hyperspin

Hyperspin is my favorite service for monitoring servers. It has servers all over the world, so that you can make sure your site is up no matter what part of the world your visitors are coming from. Hyperspin also has a very easy to use interface, allowing you to setup a new site to monitor in minutes. Hyperspin allows you to be notified immediately via Email or SMS when one or more of your servers goes down. In addition, you can setup different tests including HTTP, MySQL, SQL Server, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, DNS, and other services. In addition, Hyperspin can send you reports weekly or monthly reports for your services. Hyperspin is not free, however it is very affordable and very worth it for the level of service they provide.

mon.itor.us

mon.itor.us is a younger service with less worldwide presence, still none the less the service is good. The interface is a little bit bulky and harder to manage that other services, however they have a neat tutorial video to guide new or confused users. The good thing about mon.itor.us, is that it is free, at least for the time being. The website has a Web 2.0 look, and hold all of the features that other services provide. I feel this service will grow with time, and will hopefully add mode monitor servers around the world to enhance their tests.