Have you ever tested your hosts uptime?

[Brinked]

I was just wondering if the 99% claim made by hosting service providers is really true, i mean is there ay verifiable method?
I dont know if its only with me....other people must have been facing server timed out or similar problems frequently with the hosting provider, and when you call them back and complain they are running fit and fine...

Do you guys know of any cheap or free tool or service, software ...any thing that gives me feedback on my server, and can prevent me falling prey to my Hosts customer service Reps.....it will be helpful if you can provide me with cheap hosts with good bandwidth that wont embarrass me and my clients, Any help would be welcome, there are plenty of them online, but anything thats proven and reliable?...or anything new?

[freaks]

People tend to post 99% Uptime, and it's not true it is just a way to gain customers or a method of copying another website. Alot of the Genuine Realistic Companies it is true. Some young people especially tend to post 99% Uptime because there Dedicated Server Provider has it on their website, and on a DSP Website they are reffering uptime as Network and NOT Every Server in General.

There is a method of keeping track of uptime and that could be:
PHPSYSINFO -- http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net
SiteUptime -- http://www.siteuptime.com

Hope this Help
Regards,

[seiya]

Host-tracker.com does a fairly decent job for a free service.

[candysmith]

This is a great topic. I never really tested my host's server uptime, but I know they use a third party software from SiteUptime.com to make those reports public, so they pretty much satisfy me.

Other than that, I have some spam-like email forced into my box every week by some "monitoring company" that supervises few of the URLs of my web sites, and send weekly statistics to me...

Best,