Internetseer

Is it bad to have them visiting your site all day?

[HyperGeek]

If the site goes down, then I get an e-mail from these guys. I'm sure most of you are already familiar with them.

This leads me to believe that they're just banging one in every minute or so. How else would they monitor the activity of a web site?

Anyone have negative experiences with Internetseer?

[Alternative Future]

Hi HyperGeek,

My current bandwidth for internetseer roughly estimates at 100Kb a month, which I think is quite small for the service they provide.
I think all they do is ping and tracert your server every 5mins or so!

HTH,

-gs

[creative craig]

I use them to, they provide a good service IMO and the bandwidth they use isnt noticeable for me.

Craig

[pendanticist]

Is Internetseer anything like pingalink?

Pendanticist.

[Alternative Future]

Hi pendanticist,

Yeah just had a quick look at their services and they offer much and such the same as internetseer...

-gs

[cfx211]

Anybody have these guys just start showing up one day and never leave? I don't use the service, but one day they started pinging my site and they have been doing it ever since.

I wrote them about this and they said something about measuring general internet uptimes. Outside of offering this service to webmasters, do you think they get paid to monitor hosting companies for some third party?

[CHC]

InternetSeer blatantly exaggerates the amount of time that a site has been down. A recent network outage meant that one of our servers was unreachable for 4 minutes. My own personal site was on that server so I know that it was an absolute maximum of 5 minutes tops. Well, several of my clients then got spammed (yeah, yeah, not strictly spam but certainly "spammy") by those nice folks at InternetSeer saying that their sites had been offline for over 5 hours and recommending a new 100% availability hosting service that, you've guessed it, InternetSeer was an affiliate for. I consider this fraud. Lying about a competitor and then attempting to steal their business, what would you call it?

[netguy]

Nice one CHC... it never ceases to amaze me what some companies can come up with to scam a buck.

I just looked at the logs and they have been hitting all day on our older domains - guess they haven't found the new ones yet.