Hello,
I was thinking about it the other day when my servers went down because of a cPanel update caused apache not to work some how. It was then that my site was down for 3 hours and I had not been able to fix it because I was sleeping. It seems that many people would be interested in this, and it would be a great asset that would set KnownHost far apart from any other hosting company for VPS's. I was thinking that KnownHost should do Port Monitoring, where you select a port (maybe more) such as http port (80) and KnownHost tries to connect to the port. If there is no reply (it pings every minute) then KnownHost would probably get an email from the php script, and it will tell their support that your server is down, and that it would need to be fixed. The support would then quickly fix the problem, and that way your site is not down for 3 hours, but instead down for under 30 minutes or until problem is solved with them. I think this should be brought up in the meeting as it is close to NOC 24/7/365 Server Monitoring. It would be effective, and i am fine with paying 1 dollar a port monitoring as long as KnownHost sees or gets a ticket submitted that the server is infact down and they can find out what the problem is with my VPS.
-Andrew
I was thinking about it the other day when my servers went down because of a cPanel update caused apache not to work some how. It was then that my site was down for 3 hours and I had not been able to fix it because I was sleeping. It seems that many people would be interested in this, and it would be a great asset that would set KnownHost far apart from any other hosting company for VPS's. I was thinking that KnownHost should do Port Monitoring, where you select a port (maybe more) such as http port (80) and KnownHost tries to connect to the port. If there is no reply (it pings every minute) then KnownHost would probably get an email from the php script, and it will tell their support that your server is down, and that it would need to be fixed. The support would then quickly fix the problem, and that way your site is not down for 3 hours, but instead down for under 30 minutes or until problem is solved with them. I think this should be brought up in the meeting as it is close to NOC 24/7/365 Server Monitoring. It would be effective, and i am fine with paying 1 dollar a port monitoring as long as KnownHost sees or gets a ticket submitted that the server is infact down and they can find out what the problem is with my VPS.
-Andrew