Dang it! I was the original poster then had to go visit a customer. Seems I missed a lot of fun.
I appreciate all the folks who immediately homed in on the intent and provided valuable input. Matt Robertson, John Paul Ashenfelter and Howard Owens to name a few, gave me some great places to start. For Doug and others who might be concerned I will add this in hopes of giving you some peace of mind. Here is our reasoning and strategy. We own several domain names and manage domains for others. Long ago we decided to 1. outsource hosting and 2. not rely on only one provider -- one reason is that we found performance/loading was often (on a long term basis) progressively deteriorating. Or, more like a saw blade pattern -- once the hosting service became sufficiently loaded they would add additional capacity. And, look good for awhile. And, on a short term basis we often experienced significant performance variations during a 24 hour period. Meaning we don't put a whole lot of faith in one time samples. Especially when provided by the hosting service. No disrespect. Let's face it, in a competitive environment there is a little sales spin in even the purist. Our approach is to always be using three active hosts, located in different geographical areas. The goal is to setup a scheme (if within technical and practical means) where approx every 20 minutes a domain from each host will ping a domain on the others. Timing the response. Then we will monitor these for patterns or trends. Taking that one step further we will periodically monitor other CF hosts that we are interested in using in the event that one we currently have goes South. And, we have seen many a change hosting services ownership. And, before some says it -- this ain't perfect, but we feel it is the best scheme we can come up with to satisfy our needs. Assuming we can make it work. At 03:57 PM 9/24/2003 -0700, you wrote: >There's also a site out there (and I too lost all my bookmarks) that gives >you historical "up" reports on any domain you ask it to monitor. It will >tell you the last time the server was rebooted, what os and server its >running, and how often it's been rebooted. I think it even tells you how >long it was down for if it's down. If I can find the site again, I'll pass >along the url. > > >H. > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Howard Owens >Internet Operations Coordinator >Ventura County Star / E.W. Scripps Co. >www.venturacountystar.com >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >AIM: GoCatGo1956 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cfhelp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:52 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: Auto Pinging Script? > > > > I lost my bookmarks but I had a really cool Whois and trace-route website > > that showed all the sites hosted on a server. That may be some help in > > evaluating a host. > > > > Anyone know of it or another? > > > > Rick > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=i:4:138377 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 ColdFusion MX 6.1, now 2.5 times faster. http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/upgrade/jump/introducing.html?trackingid=ColdFusion_468x60g_HouseofFusion_carat_082803
