[BNM] Web server monitoring

[Tom Hume]

Thanks guys, after those recommendations I'm going to give pingdom a  
go :)

On 1 Sep 2008, at 10:48, Jonathan Markwell wrote:

> +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.
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> 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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