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« on: Oct 24, 2008, 06:03:31 PM »
So do you trust your host's uptime stats or go for the third-party source to get reliable figures about your site's uptime?
I heard some hosts may even hard-coded their uptime stats tool not to let people know about downtime.
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« Reply #1 on: Oct 24, 2008, 08:11:44 PM »
Personally I use my own server so the uptime command is always correct Smiley

Now regarding uptime it is not that good to have for example 3 years uptime because this means that for 3 years you haven't updated the kernel Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: Oct 25, 2008, 10:27:25 AM »
You can try external uptime services, often a 15 or 30 minute check (for one site) is provided for free
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« Reply #3 on: Oct 27, 2008, 04:03:51 PM »
External for sure - Don't all the webhosts *say* they have 99.99% uptime?  LOL - I agree with Olaf - use a service like <snipp /> - It's free and will give you the true uptime.

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« Reply #4 on: Oct 29, 2008, 05:47:34 AM »
sometimes the stats look spot on other times they are way off I do not take them too seriously
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« Reply #5 on: Oct 29, 2008, 07:12:53 AM »
Uptime depends on many factors, keeping a server online is is easy part. Much more often a netwerk has problems...
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« Reply #6 on: Oct 29, 2008, 05:55:23 PM »
Right, it depends on DC itself.
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« Reply #7 on: Oct 30, 2008, 12:13:31 AM »
It really depends on what they consider uptime. Some hosts consider their servers still being up as long as they are pingable. However, I have had many servers completely lock up and still respond to pings. So all the sites will be down, yet uptime stats say the server is still online
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« Reply #8 on: Oct 30, 2008, 07:42:46 AM »
Quote from: dbbrock1 on Oct 30, 2008, 12:13:31 AM
It really depends on what they consider uptime. Some hosts consider their servers still being up as long as they are pingable. However, I have had many servers completely lock up and still respond to pings. So all the sites will be down, yet uptime stats say the server is still online

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