Comment The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ... (Score 1) 259
I run a website monitoring company and used to work as a network management consultant for some years now.
In the early days it often happened, that monitoring caused more trouble than it helped to make sure, that all systems are running fine.
As for the marketing methods mentioned, I do not think, that it is the right way to do IP-scans and spam the owners, but I can say from my own experience, that it is quite hard to find people responsible for websites if you do not do it like that. At www.nmsalert.com we never used that method anyway.
As for creating failures instead of preventing them I personally would never ever ask a company to do stress tests on my production systems. I cannot see any reason at all, why anybody else should do so. For sure, if these tests are done, they dont have to repeated every few minutes (or even seconds).
We monitor usally every 5 minutes, by doing a ping, opening an smtp-connection and getting the http header. This does not cause any additional load on the systems, which would be worth mentioning.
If I would be responsible for the datacenter where the servers are hosted I would also block that company and their machines completely.
Cheers,
Markus
www.nmsalert.com
In the early days it often happened, that monitoring caused more trouble than it helped to make sure, that all systems are running fine.
As for the marketing methods mentioned, I do not think, that it is the right way to do IP-scans and spam the owners, but I can say from my own experience, that it is quite hard to find people responsible for websites if you do not do it like that. At www.nmsalert.com we never used that method anyway.
As for creating failures instead of preventing them I personally would never ever ask a company to do stress tests on my production systems. I cannot see any reason at all, why anybody else should do so. For sure, if these tests are done, they dont have to repeated every few minutes (or even seconds).
We monitor usally every 5 minutes, by doing a ping, opening an smtp-connection and getting the http header. This does not cause any additional load on the systems, which would be worth mentioning.
If I would be responsible for the datacenter where the servers are hosted I would also block that company and their machines completely.
Cheers,
Markus
www.nmsalert.com
