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Questions tagged [uptime]

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nginx sending 499 response to uptimerobot?

I woke up this morning to a notification from uptimerobot that a site was down. I checked it myself, and it was not. I ssh'd in and checked the server logs, and while normal requests were being dealt with fine, uptimerobot's were looking like…
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Self uptime monitor?

Is there an app or a technique i can use to self monitor a server? For a technique i was thinking of writing a log file every minute and clearing them every hour marking down every minute my app did not write (in another file or DB) For DB i figure…
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Load average 1.00 while top seems to show the server as idle

My server is not responding to HTTP requests, and it took me a long time before being able to log in with SSH; it all looks like the server is overloaded and on its knees. It already did that a few days ago, but after a reboot everything was back to…
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Diagnose why server went down

I have a couple of Asp.Net web apps running a Windows Server 2008 R2 VPS. We have been using this VPS for years. Since the last few months, we have had our apps go down for 30-45 mins. This doesn't happen periodically and this doesn't happen at the…
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Server Load very high despite CPU usage being low

When I run the top command I get this top - 23:20:50 up 1:25, 1 user, load average: 11.02, 11.20, 10.41 Tasks: 262 total, 3 running, 258 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 75.6%us, 6.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 3.1%id, 14.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.8%si, …
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How to verify promised uptime before hiring a server?

I've been bitten by this too many times. You find a well known hosting provider, read comparative reviews (and pass by on any company that has influence in those review), they promise 99.99% uptime, you pay a reasonable price (not the cheapest) and…
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Do these server uptime 'pinging' services really do anything special?

Other than pinging a particular endpoint like to see if my website server is returning, do these server monitoring (ping) type services offer anything else? I'm just thinking it is cheaper to get a VPS to ping my servers than signup with them. I…
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Uptime Monitoring solution that opens a constant socket connection?

I want to monitor some servers and some of them have the potential of having very unstable connectivity. This is because they are located in office locations that only have consumer internet access. My worries with the usual approach - to have a…
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Should I leave my hosting provider

I have my website hosted with a hosting provider and they have recently had a serious outage. So at the moment it is at 48 hours and counting where I can't access email, http or ftp. I'm obviously pretty annoyed and I'm wondering how normal a thing…
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May I use CDN for whole website (PHP, Apache, MySQL) or just for images and CSS, JS files?

May I use CDN for whole website (PHP, Apache, MySQL) or just for images and CSS, JS files? What's the best choice > cloud-hosting or dedicated-hosting? Does CDN has that support? Witch hosting you suggest me the best - the fastest, stablest 100%…
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Keeps "SSH timeout" error in our AWS instance- how do i diagnose?

I am befuddled by this error. We keep failing to SSH into our AWS instance, whether it is is deployment or via console. I have tried rebooting a few times, but it does not seem to be helping. Here are a couple of error messages i keep getting.…
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System Uptime Monitors

I am looking for reviews and suggestions a an online service such as http://www.alertmefirst.com/ I need a service or system that can monitor the following and provide me daily emails and monthly reports on the status of the following: is internet…
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How to get the last boot up time of a remote windows server to which you do not have access?

Is it possible to get the LastBootUpTime of a remote machine (running Windows) if you have not been granted access to that server; though the server is on the same network, and same domain as the client? It is possible to get a list of permissions…
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Partial uptime servers

Is there a server management scheme with intentional partial uptime? I mean, a server that automatically sleeps at night? Or a server that wakes on every other hour (using hardware, not cron jobs) to do some cyclic task? Or two servers working in a…
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Azure linux uptime -s increasing

Do you know why uptime -s increasing in Azure platform? hostname@ubuntu:~$ date Thu Jan 4 15:00:04 CET 2018 hostname@ubuntu:~$ uptime -s 2018-01-01 00:52:15 After 10 minutes: hostname@ubuntu:~$ date Thu Jan 4 15:10:18 CET 2018 hostname@ubuntu:~$…
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