Website monitoring service

[alld]

Which website monitoring service would you advise?

[Terabytes]

none...

use a reputable hosting service, and you really don't have to worry about that kind of stuff...

just me $0.02
Tera

[alld]

Good hoster is only one half of uptime. Other half are site scripts stabilyty, MySQL stabilyty, hardware stabilyty, DNS and etc. etc. etc. So I want know about any problems raised with my site immediatly, for fast resolve it or call to hoster support for resolving problem.
PS: Sorry for my english.

[Terabytes]

all that stability would normally be in place with a good hosting service...if it's not already there...you should probably move to another hosting company...

I've only had a couple bad experiences over the last 11 years...the answer was simple....move to a better hosting company...problem solved...

[alld]

Terabytes, in any case hoster can't resolve probles related with self developed scripts. Last example - after development and testing we upgrate our site to new release. After week site was down due internal application error. Problem was in bug in our script.

[DavidAtWork]

I use SiteScope...which works pretty well. It can do all that I think you would want it to. If you want to pay for it. Although I do agree with previous posts that a good hosting service is the best. If your looking for things to handle script errors though. I would suggest error handling in the script itself that would send you an email notification when the script errors as well as giving a "better" error page then just the regular error delivered when a script bombs.

Just my 2 cents...
D

[rekitty]

I'm using alertsite and they have been great and less expensive than big names in the monitoring industry.

I'd love to hear of any experiences with free or super duper cheap monitoring for our secondary sites.

[jtara]

Free -> nagios, running on your own Linux machine.

Text file setup (you may think this is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing...). Nice GUI display, though, and has zillions of little plugins for various types of monitoring, can alert in various ways (email, pager, etc.) and if there's something it can't do - just write a script.

Because of the initial setup effort, probably best for monitoring a large number of sites. It has a very nice group setup feature, so if you have a group of sites that you want to do the same kind of monitoring on, you only do the setup for the group once.

[webdoctor]

use a reputable hosting service, and you really don't have to worry about that kind of stuff...

I'd respectfully disagree.

If any of my sites go down on Christmas Day, I need to know about it.

I know for sure that my webhost isn't going to have techs sitting around checking every single site over the holidays (they'd probably notice if their datacenter catches fire, but that's about it), so that's why I've got an off-site monitoring service to do just this - and I know that I'll get a page if there are any problems.