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By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com
October 30, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- New test and measurement provider UptimeSpy (www.uptimespy.com) has launched a free, full-featured, geographic website monitoring service, offering monitoring from eight node locations around the world, which it calls an industry first.
In a Thursday announcement, UptimeSpy said its new service lets webmasters monitor their site performance and receive instant text message or email alerts when downtime or slow performance is found, quickly determining which geographical regions are affected by downtime.
"We've developed a monitoring service that offers world-class features and no usage limits for our users," site developer Chris Henning said in a statement.
UptimeSpy also offers a metrics portal that publicly displays the performance of the top Web hosting providers, including speeds for ping response, HTTP response, and average uptime, letting users "verify or dispute the published guarantees of their Web host, and request SLA compensation," according to UptimeSpy. The company said that making this data public helps consumers find the most reliable Web host for their location and needs.
"By integrating UptimeSpy's monitoring network with a real-time Host Metrics portal," said Henning, "we are able to serve both our users and the hosting community as a whole, all free of charge."
UptimeSpy gathers uptime data from several, worldwide hosting sponsors that provide the network with free VPS or small dedicated linux servers. UptimeSpy's technicians install its WatchDog Monitoring Software on the servers, adding to the global network.
While UptimeSpy identifies itself as the "first comprehensive, free global monitoring service," on-demand test and measurement provider Keynote (www.keynote.com) announced Monday it would offer a generally available free version of its global monitoring service KITE. According to Keynote, however, the free service offers five worldwide monitoring locations from its complete network of 240.
However, calling these services "global" could be considered a stretch, considering that both free services only provide nodes in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and Six of UptimeSpy's eight nodes are in the US, with the other two based in London and Tokyo.
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