I'm just curious on something here. One of our partners uses www.pingdom.com to monitor their sites, which are hosted on our servers. They have it set to check response times once a minute. It seems to be decent at telling us when our sites go down, but its recovery time is horrible. For instance, today Apache wouldn't restart properly on a server, and was down for less than a minute. It had been restarted properly for a full three minutes before the alerts started, and they continued for a full 20 minutes. In the past several months, this seems to be the norm.
I've been looking for reviews in Google of Pingdom, but I have yet to find anything other than reviews from Pingdom of other sites, and reviews from sites that read like they've been paid for a good review. Has anyone else been subjected to this service? Am I really the only person in the world that doesn't like them? -- Joseph http://blog.josephhall.com/ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
