Downtime Paranoia

2 commentsWritten on January 3rd, 2010 by
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As my hosting provider is struggling with more instability on their vservers (the ones that host the virtual private servers) i’ve become so paranoid about my site going down at any possible moment that i actually have this open on one of my virtual desktops pretty much all the time:

downtime_paranoia

Occasionally i take a look at that virtual desktop and if i don’t seen any movement, off to their support area i go.

  • JC

    Why not using a website monitor? I’ve been using http://montastic.com/ with good results. Make sure to setup a notification email address not hosted on the virtual servers you’re monitoring :-)

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    i tried that for a while, but it didn’t notify me on several occasions when the server went down