Webhost monitoring
 

Hello

I currently have my websites hosted with Jumpline.com. Currently the sites are offline, and I have noticed that this often happens. I am thinking that maybe it is time to change host - but really I would like to be able to monitor site availability. Is there something that I can install on my server on Jumpline (I have a virtual dedicated server). I have checked that I can still log in through SSH, so the sever must be running, just not the websites.

So, what do I need to do to monitor web up time (and please let me know the proper jargon too!).

I would like to install this on my home server too.

Cheers,

Jon.

If you install Nagios you can do all sorts of tests and be alerted. Same goes for Monit if you don't need the scale of Nagios. Then there's free online uptime testing tools but I can't remember the URI right now. Install tools on a host that has stable connectivity else you only get queued alerts that will be sent once the host has restored a connection.

Cheers, they sound good, I will look into them. Alerts after the connection is restored will be OK for now, really just want to know what has happened, not necessarily real time alerts.

You can use bbclone, it's a php script that monitors the users that enter your site.. you have statistics every hour.. and you can see when no users entered the site, that means the host was down.. here is their site: http://bbclone.de/