netaustin - Slashdot User

Comment We use--but don't like--Nagios (Score 1) 1

by netaustin on Friday September 26, 2008 @05:46PM (#25172025) Attached to: Open Source Monitoring Options

Nagios is reliable, and provides a few useful graphs, but it's a total bear to configure; you'll have to write massive config files in a very limited descriptor language. That said, you get very fine grained control and I've never had any uptime problems, but the dashboard for it is really hideous looking.

We'd like to move to Zenoss, but we have no time for that.

If you have that many servers, I'd advise you to contract someone who's done this quite a bit to install and configure the monitoring system.

Submission + - Best DNS service with API access? 2

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netaustin

on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @05:39PM

netaustin writes: "My company runs quite a few media websites, mostly on Drupal, and about half on ec2. We have a good server setup with ec2 which allows us to route requests through Pound, a cluster of Varnish servers, then a cluster of Apache servers. We manage 50 domains (one per state) like this. Problem is, anytime things change, we have to manually adjust DNS for all 50 states, which is very boring and usually causes negative side effects too as we can't ever adjust all 50 DNS entries at once. We'd like to just change DNS providers and be done with it, but there are a lot of options, and I don't often shop for DNS services.

I use EveryDNS for my personal domains, but I don't think they provide an API and it'd feel a little dishonest to reverse engineer the forms on their site since they're an esteemed donations-based service. I wouldn't feel bad about doing that to DNSPark, but they have a CAPTCHA image accompanying their login form, so goodbye DNSPark.

I found a couple services that seem to do what I'm looking for, but they both feel a bit Microsoft-y and since I only want to change once, I want to get this right. Advice?"

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