Server down for hours

Ouch, that hurts.

[giggle]

Hi

Apologies if this has been asked before (I'm sure that it has been, but I couldn't find any thread).

I have been away from my desk for four hours today and when I get back and check how things are going I find that our dedicated server is offline and all of our web sites are down. No business at all.

Can anyone suggest (or alude to) some software that will alert me (by SMS or email) when our site is down.

I Google'd it but there are so many I have no idea what to choose.

If anyone out there can recommend something (not too expensive I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks

Mick

[trillianjedi]

Hi Giggle,

Ouch indeed.

Try here:-

[dmoz.org...]

Lot's of open-source/free ones.

[giggle]

trillianjedi

Bang! What a reply. Never thought of the DMOZ catalog.

Thanks for that, better get something quick before I have to explain to the others tomorrow that our sites were all down for hours.

Not sure which one to choose but there are plently to go through.

Cheers

Mick

[trillianjedi]

I use dmoz all the time - it's actually my first port of call (above a search engine) for this type of query.

Incidentally, I just noticed the one that I use, nagios, isn't in that directory (it's in dmoz, just elsewhere - wrong place in my opinion!).

It's also open-source:-

[nagios.org...]

[mcavic]

Most of the stuff that's out there is software that you have to run on a machine that's remote to the one you're monitoring. But there are a few services that will monitor for you -- that's where I'd look.

[giggle]

Thanks mcavic

I'm running a test/free trial period of one that "monitors" your site (never asked for the IP address of our dedicated server).

If anything happens to our site and it's picked up by this service then I'll probably go for it as the reports/graphics seem pretty good.

All the best

Mick