Hello,
Anyone using siteuptime seem to be getting and false downtime issues, cause site uptime just gave me 2 false downtimes. Did anyone else have issues with siteuptime and how reliable is it (siteuptime.com) . Plus i am thinking of changing to uppanel.com is that reliable or any other free uptime monitioring services exists?. I will contact siteuptime now asking for when the dowtime was reported cause i am pretty sure i have not rebooted apache or the server itself.
ThanksHi,
Give <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.host-tracker.com">http://www.host-tracker.com</a><!-- m --> a try. They are very reliable for me
Ok i give them a shot , but lets see what siteuptime has to say regarding downtimes.Ok got reply from siteuptime that they do not offer such services on free acounts 
so i got confirmation from steadfast that their network was down for a few minutes. So i guess will stick with siteuptime for a while longer, but host-tracker seems to be little bulky dont u think?i use <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hyperspin.com">www.hyperspin.com</a><!-- w --> - very good solution - no false nowntime issues.I use hyperspin too. And it's excellent so far.I have used both siteuptime and uppanel. Have found that siteuptime is much much more reliable. There are instances where I would be browsing my own site and at the same time getting reports from uppanel that my site is down. Weird but true.Siteuptime is inaccurate (a few of our resellers gave up on it after it regularly reported downtime that never occured).
Uppanel is also inaccurate (missed a 37 min outage).
Webhostingstuff seems to be off by 2hours/month, they seem to be so inconfident in their own tracking that they correct their results if you contact them.
For quality: Alertra and Websitepulse are very accurate.I'll give another nod to hyperspinI'll give another nod to hyperspin
Yep uses hyperspin as it seems to be the best out there right now.Ok i just signed out with hyperspin but do they have public link which u can put on ur site to customers to look at cause in my account i dont see such codeLook under the report tab, theres a link to the public report code you can put on your siteSiteuptime is inaccurate (a few of our resellers gave up on it after it regularly reported downtime that never occured).
Uppanel is also inaccurate (missed a 37 min outage).
Webhostingstuff seems to be off by 2hours/month, they seem to be so inconfident in their own tracking that they correct their results if you contact them.
For quality: Alertra and Websitepulse are very accurate.
The same thing happened with us when we tried Siteuptime, it reported false downtime quite a few times.We moved from Siteuptime to Hyperspin as well last November, been a great service.Try sitealarm, even give public stats if you want them.
JohnI am currently using uPanel and things are working fine for me, although I have only been using this service for approximately 2 months. I haven't had any problems with them thus far.i have actually been doing some experimenting with uppanel, i decided to monitor 2 sites on the same server to see what happens, and sometimes i get 1 site down and sometimes the other, which i don't understand why really (am going to try hyperspin now
)sfx i think hyperspin is good , but i do not see any detailed reports with hyperspin or a better visible uptimes its a single row stating everything in that one table made up of 2 rows .But otherwise i think hyperspin good.Edit: hyperspin.com doesnt seem to be opening, any else having same issues?I use SiteUptime and have not had any problems. I think I am going to try out Hyperspin. I used SiteUpTime last year and they had the same problems then. I tried to tell them that their algorithm for detecting downs would always produce a lot of false downs, but evidently they still don't seem to care.
The problem they had is that they monitor your server with five other servers. If only one of their servers shows a down, then it's reported as a down. This is at least absurd. Plus, the more servers they monitor you with, the more false downs you'll have.
They need to scrap their 'site down = yes' algorithm and put in at least:
If 4 out of 5 servers = "down"
THEN; server down = "yes"
The only question there should be is:
Should it be ALL the servers saying 'down' to classify as a real down?
What if one server is getting through???
Nice to see some alternatives listed here; I'll have to check them out. Thanks.Also, what uptime providers have either a basic free service or will allow a trial of their service?
I'd like to have two different services report to a program that only sends a down report if BOTH services call a down. SiteUpTime was such a bad experience that I had to call them every month and show them logs so they'd erase my false downs.
I'll give them that, though; they did go in and take care of the false downs ... but it was still just too much to continue on with them.
Thanks again,did anyone try hkuptime.com?Ok i can now safely confirm that site uptime gives false output as i had only small 15 mins outage due to some service failure and is clearly shown by hyperspin records but siteuptime cared to show 2 downtimes even though its set to monitor for 30 mins interval. So i would be shifting to hyperspin full time soon. Siteuptime no good i have proof now.We use siteuptime and have done since July. No problems at all. We havent had any downtime and siteuptime hasnt reported any. So for free I think its fine... ofcourse alertra is supposed to be much better but it isnt free.andren,
You say uppanel missed a 37 min outage? What was the time period set to for checking and what port was it checking?
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You say uppanel missed a 37 min outage? What was the time period set to for checking and what port was it checking?
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Wow such an old thread of mine brought back to life, but i still dont like siteuptime i think hyperspin is better.You should use a bunch like we do. It’s the only way to go around it, or if you use your own script.or if you use your own script.
I use my own live server stats but i doubt anyone will trust your own scripts (by anyone i mean potential client) so you basically stuck using 3rd party sites.just to bump this old thread further, only thing i dislike about hyperspin is that it only has 60 minute interval monitoring if you're on their free plan, which is pretty much useless.i use host-tracker, uppanel.com and dotuptime.com. combination of those 3 give me fairly accurate stats. host-tracker is great for detecting server outage, but their stats system sucks, it resets or does not "remember" downtimes more than 1/2 the time. just poor programming. uppanel is ok if its a lengthly downtime, while dotuptime has tons of false positives for downtime, but it'll be first to warn you if your server is legitimately down, reliably.We tried a few services incl. Siteuptime but decided for Hyperspin, using it for quite a while now and we definetely would recommend them.andren,
You say uppanel missed a 37 min outage? What was the time period set to for checking and what port was it checking?
I'd tell you if uppanel would be up...We've been using SiteUptime for 3 years now and on various Servers. I've found the paid service is much better & more reliable than their Free service. No problems here.I'd tell you if uppanel would be up... They're up, but I can't register. Have never been there, but every e-mail address I've tried said it already exists, then the "forgot password" form says the e-mail is invalid.Not sure, but to me it looks like they lost all data? We also can't get to the monitoring website, we get a 'connection interrupted' message.We use hyperspin as of now and it seems nice, but also a little iffy. For example, we had an obvious downtime (for a reboot) and it didn't show up at all on hyperspin. It says straight 100% for the last 4 months (not that we're complaining
)Not sure, but to me it looks like they lost all data?
We also can't get to the monitoring website, we get a 'connection interrupted' message.
I keep getting notices that a server of mine that is definitely NOT online (hd is pulled) is coming online every so often. This just started happening as of monday.
Of course, password doesn't work, and when I reset my password, it still doesn't work.For example, we had an obvious downtime (for a reboot) and it didn't show up at all on hyperspin.
We can further investigate this issue and let you know why Hyperspin did not pick up the downtime. Most probably, the downtime was too short and your server had already come back up while we performed confirmation checks, which is why it was not reported. Anyway, we can only confirm this if we check up our logs.
Can you please provide us details for investigation (via PM or <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hyperspin.com/contact.php">http://www.hyperspin.com/contact.php</a><!-- m --> )?
1. your Hyperspin username, and the server in question
2. the date, time and duration of downtime
Don't worry, we will not change your 100% uptime
Thank you.Hyperspin has been monitoring my server for 289 days now, with the 5 minute monitor it's gonna miss the quick reboot (unless you have a box that's slow to come up that is).
I have to say that for the price, it does its job exceptionally well. When the server does go down or becomes overloaded enough to trip up the check, the alert is sent and it's noted in the log where I can add a little note to it to keep track of what's been going on with my server.
Just good cheap peace of mind knowing that my server won't go dark without me knowing about it.Try myserveralert.com they are still beta but 100% free and reliable
looks like site is done by a 13 year old kid during lunch break.
sign up page leads you to "The page you are trying to access does not exist.
Please select a page from the main menu." then they say 100% free accounts and on the side it says free 1 month trial. make up your mind?
ah well.I'd have to say hyperspin -- host-tracker we have been using and even though we have had outages the link on our page is still showing 100%. All good and well but it looks like we're lying. Recently switched to Hyperspin, have been happy thus far."beta" and "reliable" do not belong in the same sentence
Gmail(beta) has been fairly reliable for me ;-)Gmail(beta) has been fairly reliable for me ;-)
Never said they couldn't be in the same sentence, just that they don't belong :gthumb:I have been testing SiteUptime, and I think it's very accurate. One of our webserver was having problem (apache reloads configuration at random times). This apache configuration reloads may cause apache to be unavailable for 15 seconds or so. Siteuptime has always been able to detect this whereas Alertra has always misssed this. Even when apache is down for a longer time (e.g. 1 minute), SiteUptime will deliver the alerts (via email/SMS) a lot sooner than Alertra.With the price they are charging compared to Alertra (e.g. $7/month for 2 minutes check per device, instead of $29.95/month with Alertra), I am thinking of moving our external monitoring from Alertra to Siteuptime. We will see.I have been testing SiteUptime, and I think it's very accurate. One of our webserver was having problem (apache reloads configuration at random times). This apache configuration reloads may cause apache to be unavailable for 15 seconds or so. Siteuptime has always been able to detect this whereas Alertra has always misssed this. Even when apache is down for a longer time (e.g. 1 minute), SiteUptime will deliver the alerts (via email/SMS) a lot sooner than Alertra.
With the price they are charging compared to Alertra (e.g. $7/month for 2 minutes check per device, instead of $29.95/month with Alertra), I am thinking of moving our external monitoring from Alertra to Siteuptime. We will see.
If i am not mistaken your paid client, i was referring to all those free uptime services .
CheersSiteuptime is much better than uppanel.
Uppanel itself does not have good uptime.Siteuptime is much better than uppanel.
Uppanel itself does not have good uptime.
Hmm what makes you say that uppanel doesnt have good uptime, which public uptime service they use themselves? :smokin:Their htacess settings and mysql database is down several times in a month.
Anyone using siteuptime seem to be getting and false downtime issues, cause site uptime just gave me 2 false downtimes. Did anyone else have issues with siteuptime and how reliable is it (siteuptime.com) . Plus i am thinking of changing to uppanel.com is that reliable or any other free uptime monitioring services exists?. I will contact siteuptime now asking for when the dowtime was reported cause i am pretty sure i have not rebooted apache or the server itself.
ThanksHi,
Give <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.host-tracker.com">http://www.host-tracker.com</a><!-- m --> a try. They are very reliable for me
Ok i give them a shot , but lets see what siteuptime has to say regarding downtimes.Ok got reply from siteuptime that they do not offer such services on free acounts so i got confirmation from steadfast that their network was down for a few minutes. So i guess will stick with siteuptime for a while longer, but host-tracker seems to be little bulky dont u think?i use <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hyperspin.com">www.hyperspin.com</a><!-- w --> - very good solution - no false nowntime issues.I use hyperspin too. And it's excellent so far.I have used both siteuptime and uppanel. Have found that siteuptime is much much more reliable. There are instances where I would be browsing my own site and at the same time getting reports from uppanel that my site is down. Weird but true.Siteuptime is inaccurate (a few of our resellers gave up on it after it regularly reported downtime that never occured).Uppanel is also inaccurate (missed a 37 min outage).
Webhostingstuff seems to be off by 2hours/month, they seem to be so inconfident in their own tracking that they correct their results if you contact them.
For quality: Alertra and Websitepulse are very accurate.I'll give another nod to hyperspinI'll give another nod to hyperspin
Yep uses hyperspin as it seems to be the best out there right now.Ok i just signed out with hyperspin but do they have public link which u can put on ur site to customers to look at cause in my account i dont see such code
Look under the report tab, theres a link to the public report code you can put on your siteSiteuptime is inaccurate (a few of our resellers gave up on it after it regularly reported downtime that never occured).Uppanel is also inaccurate (missed a 37 min outage).
Webhostingstuff seems to be off by 2hours/month, they seem to be so inconfident in their own tracking that they correct their results if you contact them.
For quality: Alertra and Websitepulse are very accurate.
The same thing happened with us when we tried Siteuptime, it reported false downtime quite a few times.We moved from Siteuptime to Hyperspin as well last November, been a great service.Try sitealarm, even give public stats if you want them.
JohnI am currently using uPanel and things are working fine for me, although I have only been using this service for approximately 2 months. I haven't had any problems with them thus far.i have actually been doing some experimenting with uppanel, i decided to monitor 2 sites on the same server to see what happens, and sometimes i get 1 site down and sometimes the other, which i don't understand why really (am going to try hyperspin now
)sfx i think hyperspin is good , but i do not see any detailed reports with hyperspin or a better visible uptimes its a single row stating everything in that one table made up of 2 rows .But otherwise i think hyperspin good.Edit: hyperspin.com doesnt seem to be opening, any else having same issues?I use SiteUptime and have not had any problems. I think I am going to try out Hyperspin. I used SiteUpTime last year and they had the same problems then. I tried to tell them that their algorithm for detecting downs would always produce a lot of false downs, but evidently they still don't seem to care.The problem they had is that they monitor your server with five other servers. If only one of their servers shows a down, then it's reported as a down. This is at least absurd. Plus, the more servers they monitor you with, the more false downs you'll have.
They need to scrap their 'site down = yes' algorithm and put in at least:
If 4 out of 5 servers = "down"
THEN; server down = "yes"
The only question there should be is:
Should it be ALL the servers saying 'down' to classify as a real down?
What if one server is getting through???
Nice to see some alternatives listed here; I'll have to check them out. Thanks.Also, what uptime providers have either a basic free service or will allow a trial of their service?
I'd like to have two different services report to a program that only sends a down report if BOTH services call a down. SiteUpTime was such a bad experience that I had to call them every month and show them logs so they'd erase my false downs.
I'll give them that, though; they did go in and take care of the false downs ... but it was still just too much to continue on with them.
Thanks again,did anyone try hkuptime.com?Ok i can now safely confirm that site uptime gives false output as i had only small 15 mins outage due to some service failure and is clearly shown by hyperspin records but siteuptime cared to show 2 downtimes even though its set to monitor for 30 mins interval. So i would be shifting to hyperspin full time soon. Siteuptime no good i have proof now
.We use siteuptime and have done since July. No problems at all. We havent had any downtime and siteuptime hasnt reported any. So for free I think its fine... ofcourse alertra is supposed to be much better but it isnt free.andren,You say uppanel missed a 37 min outage? What was the time period set to for checking and what port was it checking?
<<Signature to be set up in your profile>>andren,
You say uppanel missed a 37 min outage? What was the time period set to for checking and what port was it checking?
<<Signature to be set up in your profile>>
Wow such an old thread of mine brought back to life, but i still dont like siteuptime i think hyperspin is better
.You should use a bunch like we do. It’s the only way to go around it, or if you use your own script.or if you use your own script.I use my own live server stats but i doubt anyone will trust your own scripts (by anyone i mean potential client) so you basically stuck using 3rd party sites.just to bump this old thread further, only thing i dislike about hyperspin is that it only has 60 minute interval monitoring if you're on their free plan, which is pretty much useless.i use host-tracker, uppanel.com and dotuptime.com. combination of those 3 give me fairly accurate stats. host-tracker is great for detecting server outage, but their stats system sucks, it resets or does not "remember" downtimes more than 1/2 the time. just poor programming. uppanel is ok if its a lengthly downtime, while dotuptime has tons of false positives for downtime, but it'll be first to warn you if your server is legitimately down, reliably.We tried a few services incl. Siteuptime but decided for Hyperspin, using it for quite a while now and we definetely would recommend them.andren,
You say uppanel missed a 37 min outage? What was the time period set to for checking and what port was it checking?
I'd tell you if uppanel would be up...We've been using SiteUptime for 3 years now and on various Servers. I've found the paid service is much better & more reliable than their Free service. No problems here.I'd tell you if uppanel would be up... They're up, but I can't register. Have never been there, but every e-mail address I've tried said it already exists, then the "forgot password" form says the e-mail is invalid.Not sure, but to me it looks like they lost all data? We also can't get to the monitoring website, we get a 'connection interrupted' message.We use hyperspin as of now and it seems nice, but also a little iffy. For example, we had an obvious downtime (for a reboot) and it didn't show up at all on hyperspin. It says straight 100% for the last 4 months (not that we're complaining
)Not sure, but to me it looks like they lost all data? We also can't get to the monitoring website, we get a 'connection interrupted' message.
I keep getting notices that a server of mine that is definitely NOT online (hd is pulled) is coming online every so often. This just started happening as of monday.
Of course, password doesn't work, and when I reset my password, it still doesn't work.For example, we had an obvious downtime (for a reboot) and it didn't show up at all on hyperspin.
We can further investigate this issue and let you know why Hyperspin did not pick up the downtime. Most probably, the downtime was too short and your server had already come back up while we performed confirmation checks, which is why it was not reported. Anyway, we can only confirm this if we check up our logs.
Can you please provide us details for investigation (via PM or <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hyperspin.com/contact.php">http://www.hyperspin.com/contact.php</a><!-- m --> )?
1. your Hyperspin username, and the server in question
2. the date, time and duration of downtime
Don't worry, we will not change your 100% uptime
Thank you.Hyperspin has been monitoring my server for 289 days now, with the 5 minute monitor it's gonna miss the quick reboot (unless you have a box that's slow to come up that is).
I have to say that for the price, it does its job exceptionally well. When the server does go down or becomes overloaded enough to trip up the check, the alert is sent and it's noted in the log where I can add a little note to it to keep track of what's been going on with my server.
Just good cheap peace of mind knowing that my server won't go dark without me knowing about it.Try myserveralert.com they are still beta but 100% free and reliable
looks like site is done by a 13 year old kid during lunch break.
sign up page leads you to "The page you are trying to access does not exist.
Please select a page from the main menu." then they say 100% free accounts and on the side it says free 1 month trial. make up your mind?
ah well.I'd have to say hyperspin -- host-tracker we have been using and even though we have had outages the link on our page is still showing 100%. All good and well but it looks like we're lying. Recently switched to Hyperspin, have been happy thus far."beta" and "reliable" do not belong in the same sentence
Gmail(beta) has been fairly reliable for me ;-)Gmail(beta) has been fairly reliable for me ;-)
Never said they couldn't be in the same sentence, just that they don't belong :gthumb:I have been testing SiteUptime, and I think it's very accurate. One of our webserver was having problem (apache reloads configuration at random times). This apache configuration reloads may cause apache to be unavailable for 15 seconds or so. Siteuptime has always been able to detect this whereas Alertra has always misssed this. Even when apache is down for a longer time (e.g. 1 minute), SiteUptime will deliver the alerts (via email/SMS) a lot sooner than Alertra.With the price they are charging compared to Alertra (e.g. $7/month for 2 minutes check per device, instead of $29.95/month with Alertra), I am thinking of moving our external monitoring from Alertra to Siteuptime. We will see.I have been testing SiteUptime, and I think it's very accurate. One of our webserver was having problem (apache reloads configuration at random times). This apache configuration reloads may cause apache to be unavailable for 15 seconds or so. Siteuptime has always been able to detect this whereas Alertra has always misssed this. Even when apache is down for a longer time (e.g. 1 minute), SiteUptime will deliver the alerts (via email/SMS) a lot sooner than Alertra.
With the price they are charging compared to Alertra (e.g. $7/month for 2 minutes check per device, instead of $29.95/month with Alertra), I am thinking of moving our external monitoring from Alertra to Siteuptime. We will see.
If i am not mistaken your paid client, i was referring to all those free uptime services .
CheersSiteuptime is much better than uppanel.
Uppanel itself does not have good uptime.Siteuptime is much better than uppanel.
Uppanel itself does not have good uptime.
Hmm what makes you say that uppanel doesnt have good uptime, which public uptime service they use themselves? :smokin:Their htacess settings and mysql database is down several times in a month.