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There are many services available to monitor site uptime and/or performance. Some free and some paid. For simple up/down alerts, I have looked at:

http://www.montastic.com/

http://mon.itor.us/

Which one/ones do you prefer?

GIGRIB

http://host-tracker.com

Another Good one - Allows you to put an icon on your site that shows your uptime in percent.

Mine currently is 100% Two Months Running.

EDIT:
see what your Visitors are doing or looking at, use:

http://www.google.com/analytics/

good for finding out what content works and what doesn’t on your website. it also shows you what goals or targets you are reaching.

I took a liking to this one:

http://basicstate.com/

Warning: Not buzzword compliant, email reports in hardwrapped, plain txt 😉

Ive been using this one for about a year:

http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/

Its more than just monitoring, it actually changes the IP of your main server to a backup server!...and Its pretty cheap too!

We actually made a php script that is on a secondary hosting account to monitor our main server. The secondary hosting account is at Mediatemple and our main server is based over here in Australia in a major data centre.

The main reason for doing this is because we want to also monitor the load of the server as we have been having some issues with it in the past so all we did is made a simple api on the main server that the secondary server can open and get the load from the server from - very handy for working out peak load times.

We use Hyperspin, I like getting text messaged about server problems so I can fix them (hopfully!) before the customer notices 😊

isaiahdw just reminded me that our script also uses a sms gateway to msg my mobile if the load is too high or server not responding 😊

Like Lone, we also have our own system. We have rolled it up into a little site which our clients can keep an eye on as well.

Either of you feel like sharing some code? Did you make your system in php(CI??)?

I’ve thought about writing a simple server monitoring script in CI, and then drop a “report” file that sends status reports (database, server uptime, ping, server load…) back to the main status site every 5-10 minutes (maybe using xml-rpc).

Ours is far from being able to be released - its just a quick job for in the interim but I wouldn’t mind making something else like it down the track.

Hmmmm… ended up getting a lil bit ‘caught up’ redoing our server monitoring app in CI today because we missed out an outage the day before.

Function wise its all good - just needs an actual interface. If there was enough demand we might even think of releasing it.

If there was enough demand we might even think of releasing it.

Now that would be awesome! :D

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If there was enough demand we might even think of releasing it.

Now that would be awesome! :D

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Make that +2
I would be very interested in this also!

Now your tempting me - a lil more demand and Ill try to get it out in the next few weeks 😊

But the key thing is are people after a hosted solution or they want to host themself?

Just a few new features needed such as DONT SMS ME 4AM IN THE MORNING 😛

Which makes me think I will be needing to use other SMS gateways for other countries :(