[BNM] Web server monitoring

[Jonathan Markwell]

+1 Pingdom we've been using them for a year and have had no problems.

We successfully used the reports to get a refund from a certain poor
performance hosting provider too.

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Melanie Burke
<melanie at electricputty.co.uk> wrote:
> +1 for Pingdom.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Hume [mailto:tom.hume at futureplatforms.com]
> Sent: 29 August 2008 17:44
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: [BNM] Web server monitoring
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> Anyone know of a decent, cheap but reliable service for web and other
> server monitoring?
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> I'd like to be able to register a number of servers (max 10), have
> them watched (by HTTP hits and perhaps regex-matching) and have
> reports sent to my phone if they fail.
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> We've had a nagios setup but life is too short to learn how to
> configure that bastard piece of software. Being one of those smug mac
> types I'd happily have a box here in the office monitoring and doing
> the same.
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