<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I use and like <a href="http://statuscake.com" class="">StatusCake.com</a> as a hosted monitoring provider, and SmokePing as an internally-managed monitoring tool.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">StatusCake has been reliable, and offers nice features such as worldwide monitoring endpoints, outage confirmation, configurable paging methods and thresholds, etc. They also support different types of monitoring, ranging from a simple ICMP ping to a more complex mix of HTTP(S), keyword monitoring, blocklist monitoring, etc. The pricing is good enough that I've forgotten how much it costs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SmokePing's advantages include (1) it's open source, (2) it's relatively easy to install and configure, (3) it's lightweight enough to run on customer-side Raspberry Pis, (4) it supports extremely fine-grained monitoring (e.g. my endpoints will detect and optionally alert on outages of <5 seconds), and so on. The software is free, as it's open-source, and it could be implemented on a $5/mo VPS at somewhere like DigitalOcean.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">good luck,</div><br class=""><div class="">
Graham Freeman, Principal Nerd<br class=""><a href="http://nerdventures.com" class="">NerdVentures.com</a><br class="">+1-510-898-6772<br class="">graham@nerdventures.com<br class="">https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamfreeman<br class="">Twitter: @get_nerdy
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Feb 02016, at 12:28, Li Tiatia <<a href="mailto:tiatia@tcnp3.com" class="">tiatia@tcnp3.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi All,<div class="">Anyone have any suggestions on recommended website/IP monitoring tools? There are so many out there and just need help to narrow the list down based on what you're using or have good experience with.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you.<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font style="text-align:-webkit-auto" class=""><span style="border-collapse:collapse" class=""><div style="color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; font-weight: bold;" class=""><b style="text-align:-webkit-auto;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><font class="">_________________________________</font></span></i></b><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small" class=""><b style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px" class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Li Tiatia<br class=""></span></i></b></div></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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