Comments on: Don’t just take their word for it, go web host shopping, here’s how to do it

By: Smart TextMail and mobile alerts on tasks, website availability: e-mail to sms, scrybe, web server monitoring | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:09:13 +0000

[...] problems so that I can work on fixing it or submitting a support ticket. All the sites I run are monitored by free web server monitoring services that check every few minutes or so whether these are [...]

By: Server monitoring site adds weekly e-mail reports | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:29:56 +0000

[...] previously written about how to use mon.itor.us to compare web hosting providers. I still continue monitoring blogs with Media Temple and Dreamhost to help me on my choice of [...]

By: mon.itor.us free network and website monitoring » Find better web host provider with mon.itor.us

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:16:33 +0000

[...] Recent posts at famous Max Limpag’s blog http://max.limpag.com/2006/11/09/media-temple-delivers-uptime-promise/ and http://max.limpag.com/2006/08/15/compare-web-hosting-providers/ show interesting trend – using mon.itor.us to check ISP to select the best one. Here is a fragment from his post: “Many hosting providers have claims of “99.9% uptime guarantee.�? I don’t know if they actually meet this performance level but there is an easy and automated way to check for the performance of sites hosted in their servers. For the monitoring, use mon.itor.us, a free distributed website monitoring service.” [...]

By: Media Temple delivers on 100% uptime promise | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:25:46 +0000

[...] No, I’m not hosted with Media Temple, yet — although I’m considering a transfer to the Grid-Server — but I’ve been monitoring an account hosted with their servers. When I read about the Grid-Server offering, I searched for a website hosted with them so that I could monitor that site using mon.itor.us, a tool I wrote about earlier. [...]

By: Media Temple offers shared grid hosting | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:19:02 +0000

[...] For more on how to evaluate web hosts, you might want to read my previous post: “Don’t just take their word for it, go web host shopping, here’s how to do it“ [...]

By: Poldo

Poldo — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:14:02 +0000

Where is your site hosted, Max? I’m considering moving to a new host now and not just a free hosting account. I’ve already tried IXWebhosting.com but unfortunately, their basic plan doesn’t have MySQL support. I had to claim a refund because I signed up without reading the damn features.

Could you just please post a list of some sort to make things a little easier?

By: Poldo's Procrastination

Poldo's Procrastination — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:53:22 +0000

Server Downtime Scare…

At exactly 4pm this afternoon, my service provider went down without notice. What made me worry is that what if they have decided to shut their free hosting service. The last time I made a backup of my database and sent it to my gmail account was 2 wee…

By: jhay

jhay — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:30:22 +0000

Nice, thanks for the heads-up with mon.itor.us. I agree on not using Fantastico to update scripts, it’s always a fun and learning exercise to go under the hood and do things yourself.

By: Speedlinking - 16 August 2006

Speedlinking - 16 August 2006 — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:55:51 +0000

[...] Max Limpag has a post on web host shopping that I know will help some readers [...]