How important is UPTIME to you?

Aylian

Aylian

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How important is to you that your site is available to your visitors at all times, without going down (or very, very rarely)?

Any of you pay (or will pay) for a service from a third party to monitor your sites' availability?

Any of you find it necessary to employ other tactics of keeping your site up if it happens to go down - like paying for dns failover or similar?
 


Uptime is very important. Considering you have a high traffic sites or a ppc campaign going on its really cruicial. Traffic loosely translates into money. If your site is down you are losing money.

Yes I might just pay some one to monitor it.
 
Is it 2002 again? Who the hell worries about downtime unless you're hosting on 1&1 LOL.
 
It's dead important to me. I pay for the service and if the monthly report includes longer down time for 2-3 months, I know the host is going south and it's time to change. I won't wait for a more than month if most downtimes are during peak hours.

I'm signed up to various hosts and even run the ping/check service on my competitors to see how bad their hosts are.
 
If you're not using MFA sites then up time is important. If you have a big => huge site you need to leave standard hosting alone and look to more professional ones.
 
ShadowCaster said:
Are you preselling some sort of an uptime monitoring service? if so don't bother, here is a free one.
Free Website Uptime Monitoring - Uptime Robot
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Are you sure you're not re-discovering warm water? Almost all uptime monitor services in existence have a free service that monitor in 5-15 minute intervals. Pingdom.com - http://www.pingdom.com/#freemodal even has one that monitors in 1 minute intervals for free. In fact that is how I found out my host drops down every day, and yours does too :)
 
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Aylian said:
In fact that is how I found out my host drops down every day, and yours does too :)
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Bro that's not good. My server goes down ONCE a month for 5 min AT MOST and usually it's because it updated itself at 3 AM with a new version of cpanel and needed to restart the services.

I use siteuptime.com and pay for the service because I want my site monitored from 3 different locations.

If you really really want to eliminate downtime you need to go with something like RackSpace Cloud or SoftLayer and setup a fail over server and database with database replication and the shit load.

Simply put for me site uptime from 6 AM to 11 PM is fucking CRUCIAL! It will depend on your industry of course as some industries will cater to different hours.

If your a site like PokerStars I bet anything you want that it's absolutely the most important thing for them. Site goes down, support gets fucked up the ass with calls for HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS, etc.... Also not to mention they are probably loosing about 2 million an hour in revenue.
 
I used to have uptime problems when I hosted my sites on the end of an leased line at home. Every friday night, I'd come home drunk and accidently kick the server over.

Since I moved it to a server co-location centre, not so much, because they refuse me entry if I try to go in drunk.
 
Every one of my money sites has at least one email address. Outlook checks the mail every ten minutes. If the site is down Outlook will throw an error for the email associated with it. I haven't had any unscheduled downtime with any major hosting company in the last 15 years except for the electrical vault explosion at The Planet a few years back. Downtime just doesn't happen with quality hosting.
 
Aylian said:
Are you sure you're not re-discovering warm water? Almost all uptime monitor services in existence have a free service that monitor in 5-15 minute intervals. Pingdom.com - Pingdom Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime. even has one that monitors in 1 minute intervals for free. In fact that is how I found out my host drops down every day, and yours does too :)
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this
they also send free sms alert on downtime (last time I checked)
 
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