Have you ever tested your hosts uptime?

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awatech

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I was just wondering if the 99% claim made by hosting service providers is really true, i mean is there ay verifiable method?
I dont know if its only with me....other people must have been facing server timed out or similar problems frequently with the hosting provider, and when you call them back and complain they are running fit and fine...

Do you guys know of any cheap or free tool or service, software ...any thing that gives me feedback on my server, and can prevent me falling prey to my Hosts customer service Reps.....it will be helpful if you can provide me with cheap hosts with good bandwidth that wont embarrass me and my clients, Any help would be welcome, there are plenty of them online, but anything thats proven and reliable?...or anything new?
 
People tend to post 99% Uptime, and it's not true it is just a way to gain customers or a method of copying another website. Alot of the Genuine Realistic Companies it is true. Some young people especially tend to post 99% Uptime because there Dedicated Server Provider has it on their website, and on a DSP Website they are reffering uptime as Network and NOT Every Server in General.

There is a method of keeping track of uptime and that could be:
PHPSYSINFO -- http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net
SiteUptime -- http://www.siteuptime.com

Hope this Help
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That is a great topic. I never really tested my host's server uptime, but I know they use a third party software from SiteUptime.com to make those reports public, so they pretty much satisfy me.

Other than that, I have some spam-like email forced into my box every week by some "monitoring company" that supervises few of the URLs of my web sites, and send weekly statistics to me... :)

Best,
 
We are currently using the following:

SiteUptime, Host-Tracker, HyperSpin, WebSitePulse and we are currently looking at purchasing Alertra.

Why so many? Different reports let us evaluate different percentages. We are currently actually testing all of them to see which one can give us the most accurate information. It's never a bad thing also to have too many trackers :). Hopefully by the time my testing is done I can give a nice detailed post in regards to each :).
 
As a hosting company we use siteuptime to make sure our servers are up. I recommend them. They do have a free services; however, it is not nessarily accurate based on you can only monitor every 30 minutes.
 
we use nagios from multiple locations to tell if our systems are up, repsonding quickly etc - that way we know of the problem(s) well before any clients

for "verifiable" stats, we use Alertra, as do a number of our resellers. It allows them to backup their claims of xxx% uptime

network uptime is running @ 100% for 3 years, individual servers vary from 98.2 to 100 - depends on what they are and what they do.

99% of hosts that have 99% uptime on their website do so, simply beacuse the $30 template they bought came with a flash header that says so !
 
I have never subscribed for any uptime tools, but some people, not sure they are my customers or not, subscribed for site uptime and host-tracker to track my uptime. I don't really care about the readings of the uptime, as long as I am not going down for more than a minute per month is good ~ :thankyou:
 
It's a rare host (real ones, not Kiddie junk) that can't hit 99% over a spread of time. When I worked for an ISP/hosting company we used Nagios for monitoring our network and virtually every production server had uptime of well over 99%.

After all, 99% uptime means over 7 hours of downtime.
 
ayksolutions said:
We use siteuptime.com right now and it does work very nicely.
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Same here. The reports I receive each month tell me the uptime was not below the 99% quaranteed.
 
As kzanna provided a link for his stats, serviceuptime.com provides a really good and "objective" service on monitoring a server's uptime on any specific service you would like to test for.

Mostly, monitoring http (port 80) is preferred by companies but you may also monitor services such as remote desktop, ftp, ms sql, mysql etc. to check whether those services are up and running.
 
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