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**Morledge** · #1 (**permalink**) 19-05-2007, 10:30

Hi,

Could anyone recommend a good (free if possible) tool, which monitors your website hosting to see if it is up? I am trying to see where my host offers the 99.99% uptime that they "Guarantee".

Cheers

**Hallief3** · #2 (**permalink**) 19-05-2007, 10:39

not sure on its accuracy but try webhostingstuff.com and search the relevant company.

eukhost

http://www.webhostingstuff.com/uptime/eUKhost.html

**Morledge** · #3 (**permalink**) 19-05-2007, 11:02

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Originally Posted by Hallief3

not sure on its accuracy but try webhostingstuff.com and search the relevant company.

eukhost

http://www.webhostingstuff.com/uptime/eUKhost.html

I wonder how webhostingstuff monitor eUKhost, if it is dependant on the www.eukhost.com domain then this is not really accurate as eUKHost is hosted by RackSpace.

**flesso** · #4 (**permalink**) 19-05-2007, 11:07

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Originally Posted by Morledge

I wonder how webhostingstuff monitor eUKhost, if it is dependant on the www.eukhost.com domain then this is not really accurate as eUKHost is hosted by RackSpace.

You have to register your own company, then you list all your servers or something. It makes an interesting read... They have better uptime than some of the bigger companies as well!

**247h** · #5 (**permalink**) 19-05-2007, 12:04

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Originally Posted by Morledge

...a good (free if possible) tool, which monitors your website hosting to see if it is up?

I've used FreeWebMonitoring for quite a while now and it's been fine — it reported last night's outage and its restoration too. You'll need to create an account using an email address off the server (of course) — I use the same Gmail account that receives all communications from eUKhost etc.

Late Edit: sorry, I forgot to mention ServiceUptime — you can monitor one domain for free and they provide you with stats of uptime.

**Morledge** · #6 (**permalink**) 20-05-2007, 10:48

Thanks all for your recommendations. I found one at http://www.montastic.com/ , checks website hosting every 10 mins, monitors up to 100 domains and is free

Anyone used this before? Just that it said that my website hosting web site hosting was down twice last night 00:04 - 02:45 then 03:17 to 04:52.

I was not around to test it (too much ale last night

) so cannot confirm, but will get onto support to see what they say.

**jc8654** · #7 (**permalink**) 21-05-2007, 15:17

Another one which is nice is http://host-tracker.com/. It allows you to put a button on your website hosting showing the uptime.

**chaliciouss** · #8 (**permalink**) 06-07-2007, 15:34

try Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics

it's quite good you know.
it shows almost everything you want to know.

**DPS Computing** · #9 (**permalink**) 06-07-2007, 23:48

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Originally Posted by chaliciouss

try Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics

it's quite good you know.
it shows almost everything you want to know.

Am going to check this out - already have a Google account as well so it should be easy to do this

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**paul** · #10 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 12:21

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Originally Posted by chaliciouss

try Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics

it's quite good you know.
it shows almost everything you want to know.

It is pretty nice but still not performing log file analysis, in my case it shows loosing traffic in analytics while my Dedicated Server logs says I am gaining traffic significantly.

Rock · #11 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 14:52

I have come across a few of them :
siteuptime.com & serviceuptime.com (these are a bit famous ones)
checkwebsite.org, internetsupervision.com & siteprobe.com

**DPS Computing** · #12 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 20:11

I've tried Montastic recently and have been relatively pleased with how its doing. Will check out the other ones that you have suggested though Rock and see how they compare

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