My hosting woes never seem to go away. We've just discovered how the 'burstable ram' smallprint on a VPS can cause coldfusion to go down at random, if they oversell the box.
We're looking to shift the site asap now, but until that happens, we need an early warning system.
I need something that will check a page every 5 minutes, and email/sms me if it doesn't get the desired response. There are loads of companies offering this service when I google it, so I'd appreciate any personal recommendations.
You could install nagios on a linux box which would be a great way of
handling it yourself and would then be useable later on as well.
Alternatively, if you wanted to I'm sure we'd be able to help you and
we could set you up with something quite easily.
Cheers
S
On Jul 1, 1:08 pm, "Gareth Cole" <gareth.c...@esus.ie> wrote:
> My hosting woes never seem to go away. We've just discovered how the
> 'burstable ram' smallprint on a VPS can cause coldfusion to go down at
> random, if they oversell the box.
> We're looking to shift the site asap now, but until that happens, we need an
> early warning system.
> I need something that will check a page every 5 minutes, and email/sms me if
> it doesn't get the desired response. There are loads of companies offering
> this service when I google it, so I'd appreciate any personal
> recommendations.
> You could install nagios on a linux box which would be a great way of
> handling it yourself and would then be useable later on as well.
> Alternatively, if you wanted to I'm sure we'd be able to help you and
> we could set you up with something quite easily.
> Cheers
> S
> On Jul 1, 1:08 pm, "Gareth Cole" <gareth.c...@esus.ie> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> My hosting woes never seem to go away. We've just discovered how the
>> 'burstable ram' smallprint on a VPS can cause coldfusion to go down at
>> random, if they oversell the box.
>> We're looking to shift the site asap now, but until that happens, we need an
>> early warning system.
>> I need something that will check a page every 5 minutes, and email/sms me if
>> it doesn't get the desired response. There are loads of companies offering
>> this service when I google it, so I'd appreciate any personal
>> recommendations.
Thanks for the suggestions. I just signed up to a free trial with a
commercial site to buy me some time, but I like the sound of Nagios.
I'll give Nagios a go next week, but my one concern is that our only linux
server is hosted by the same people who host our other servers. Maybe it's
safer to monitor from a different datacenter?
> You could install nagios on a linux box which would be a great way of
> handling it yourself and would then be useable later on as well.
> Alternatively, if you wanted to I'm sure we'd be able to help you and
> we could set you up with something quite easily.
> Cheers
> S
> On Jul 1, 1:08 pm, "Gareth Cole" <gareth.c...@esus.ie> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> My hosting woes never seem to go away. We've just discovered how the
>> 'burstable ram' smallprint on a VPS can cause coldfusion to go down at
>> random, if they oversell the box.
>> We're looking to shift the site asap now, but until that happens, we need
an
>> early warning system.
>> I need something that will check a page every 5 minutes, and email/sms me
if
>> it doesn't get the desired response. There are loads of companies
offering
>> this service when I google it, so I'd appreciate any personal
>> recommendations.
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