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Uptime status pages of VPS providers
I was taking a look at some VPS providers websites and noticed that some actually have uptime status pages!
RAM Host
http://www.ramhost.us/?page=status
Secure Dragon
http://drgn.biz/status/index.php
BuyVM
http://buyvmstatus.com/
I think it's great that these providers are so upfront about the status of their servers!
Some things I noticed:
1) Secure Dragon's shows the load of each server at the moment
2) RAM Host's doesn't do the above, but provides granular graphs from Munin + detailed downtime statistics (via Pingdom)
3) BuyVM shows detailed downtime for the past month and even lets you subscribe to email alerts for each server! o_O
I wonder what's involved in putting up such status pages?
And why don't more providers have them? o_O
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Chicagovps had a pingdom page. Now I can't find it in their website
http://drgn.biz/status/index.php
Here's a better looking version: https://securedragon.net/index.php?p=hwstatus
The load is actually updated at 1 minute intervals (it's a 1 minute average also). I will be adding some munin graphs when I get around to it. I would love to have a copy of the BuyVMStatus source code. :X Right now I'm just using hacked up versions of scrd and status with some bash and PHP magic.
That BuyVM page is unofficial and not run by BuyVM.
Here's another: http://status.zensix.com/
@KuJoe - minor nit on your page: if you hover over the i for information icon, the cursor changes to a hand as if there was something to click, but there isn't. Not a big deal.
Thanks. I'm planning on doing a re-write of the page tonight (this thread reminded me of all the things I want to add).
http://easestatus.com
http://status.getkvm.com/
Made some updates (with graphs!): https://securedragon.net/index.php?p=hwstatus
That's pretty cool KuJoe. Though I was looking at a graph and then it just refreshed on me lol.
@black I disabled the auto-refresh (it's enabled on our internal status page and thought it would be helpful but I don't think people will leave the page up like we do).
I love VPS host's that post these, you can actually trust these hosts! If only Urpad did this for all of their nodes, I would give them trust again.
http://stats.pingdom.com/jzrszp4wfu79
I'd like @BlueVM to have one. I ping my server 3 times (10 second interval if each fails) every 3 minutes and I get loads of failures. Even their own HyperVM keeps reporting ports being down.
We also use pingdom to monitor our nodes.
http://status.raidlogic.net
They just release a new interface for pingdom i like it.
@KuJoe Definitely looks better than just a few hours ago! Some of the NIC cells are red while others are green. What does that mean?
@syaman The colors in the NIC column are ping latency, I'm still working on that portion to fine tune it because it's not a very accurate representation of the actual network status.
buyvmstatus.com will get a total rewrite and redesign soon, to celebrate 1 year since it was launched
If anyone has any suggestions on what new features I should implement (bear in mind I don't have any non-public access to the nodes) shoot me a PM or reply here.
Sourceplz? :P
Nosry
@Kujoe -[ How's the little baby? ]
Want to share your status code so you can show the buyvmstatus Guy how to do it :P.
It's just this with a cronjob to pull the munin graphs from our internal status page, a PHP function for pinging the server, and some hover-over code.
The status column used to be realtime but it caused the rest of the page to load slowly so now it uses the 1 minute check in scrd.
What is your cron interval?
How heavy is this? I was coding something today and I think I put too many staffs to pull in. With 5 minutes interval my monitoring node was acting crazy ( good 6 year old server) .
You did not answer my other question btw.
@NinjaHawk Sorry I missed that, the little one is good. Growing up fast.
I set the scrd cron to 1 minute, munin is 4 minutes. The loads aren't an issue for scrd but munin is pretty intense. If you're looking at our monitor page and you see the load for fire02 hit 8-10 that's when all of our clients with munin kick off their crons. I have our internal monitoring OpenVZ VPS set to 256MB guaranteed, 768MB burst with 2 CPU cores and it's not an issue.
@KuJoe Thanks for the tip! It doesn't look like statsend is available for download any more though. Might you have a copy someplace?
@syaman I use scrd, not statsend. Sorry.
@KuJoe mind to share how you implement it?
@joshuatly I just followed the instructions for scrd and status (might be different with the new versions). If I had to do it over again though I'd probably use OpenStatus which might be your best bet because I've read some people having issues with scrd/status these days.
AllSimple has theirs too: http://status.allsimple.net/
@KuJoe thanks, trying out OpenStatus now.