“Uptime,” more like……”downtime”

Out of curiosity last week, I set up service and host monitoring through Pingdom. They offer a free 30-day trial for their low-end account, which includes testing of 5 hosts. (If you pay it’s like $10 a month.) It’s a neat service, although kind of expensive, at least for how I’m using it. It’s been configured to check for web services on this site (Sector930) and my home server (Home,) and SSH on my other hosting server (Enterprise) every minute, and send out emails if it finds something amiss. In the last 12 hours, I’ve had downtime on all three sites:
That gmail label already stresses me out.

That gmail label already stresses me out.

None of these are “production servers” (i.e. I’m not losing money if they go down) and I’m not even sure if 5 minutes of “downtime” should even be considered “downtime.”

My home server went down because I was doing some Xtreme torrenting which consumed all the bandwidth for which I have been paying. (I was such a nerd I was monitoring it closely.)

This site went down because our hosting provider sucks. I’m not going to say who it is though, at least not yet.

I’m not sure why the other one went down though. It’s not doing anything, and the hosting company seemed pretty reliable. I’m going to set up a monitoring filter to run on google.com, to use as a baseline/control test.

Also, I’m going to be writing in here more. You have been warned.

And yes, “Enterprise” is referring to the starship, and not the car rental or Microsoft’s cash cow line of products.

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One Response to “Uptime,” more like……”downtime”

  1. Lenore says:

    So are the options in your gmail “AWOOGA” or “Netflix”? That doesn’t seem very comprehensive. I’m concerned.

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