Server Monitoring Providers Servers Down
Having setup BasicState to monitor the various analytics sites, we managed to identify the one which was causing unreasonably large page times. Forthwith, we notified the analytics provider so that they could improve their systems. (Partly to help them out and partly because all the “server down” messages were really begining to takeover my inbox).
I was there pleasantly surprised to discover that over the weekend the server down messages had stopped and thought it must have been an easy win for the analytics development team. However, I have just realised that the daily summaries from the server monitoring provider have also stopped, and upon visiting their site, I get a DNS failure. I can only take this as a sign of the times. They were voted something like “biggest business to watch” by NBC in January 2008, but now in November, they have disappeared without a trace. They had been providing a very decent service, which I had used on a number of different sites and I feel sorry for nice guy running it.
Although, its perfectly feasible that its actually his hosting provider who has either gone wrong, or gone under. We shall see.