It isn't really about the load on a server it is the reporting, and the multi continent monitoring that is important. Doing local monitoring doesn't do much because it is all on the same network. You won't know regionally who can and cannot reach your servers. I have used Pingdom previously and I loved it, I could write the code to do the reporting and I could setup the machines to provide the monitoring, but that is time I'd rather not spend. Is multi-continent monitoring important to everyone? no, but personally I like to know what is going on. Right now I only use Pingdom for personal stuff so I cannot really justify paying full price, but as a business customer it would be worth it. Just my opinion
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2009 08:06 pm, Peter Manis wrote: > > > FYI > > http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/04/09/easter-special-pingdom-75-discoun > >t/ > > > > 75% off a year of Pingdom > > The deal is good. The service? I don't really see any way to tell, as > the website appears (to me anyway) to be a combination of vague and > fluff. > > A while back Roger was in a position to help us with monitoring, and > we're almost ready to offer monitoring as a service. I'd certainly > price it a lot lower. > > For example: A few years ago we bought a small webhosting company; one > of the things we did was take over their server. They were owned by a > rather well known site-monitoring company. One of their monitoring > services sites was left on that server. They're no longer active on > that server but they were for several years. For _all_ their sites the > maximum transit month was 969 mb. For all their clients. That's about > 1/500th of a T-1. Divide 1.4mbps by 500, and you'll see how much > impact all the monitoring for all their clients actually has on a > server. > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services > P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: > "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
