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The Pingability Service in a Nutshell

  • Monitor servicesYou tell us what websites and services to monitor.
  • FrequencyPingability will monitor those sites as often as you like.
  • AlertsIf the service goes down Pingability will notify you (via phone, SMS or email).
  • ReportsCome to the site at any time to get uptime reports and detailed analysis.

We have free monitoring options as well as paid options from 9.95 USD/month.

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Setting up your account is simple:

  1. Complete this form.

  2. We will start monitoring your site and set you up on a trial account.

  3. If the service works out well for you, you can choose to fully activate your account later on.

You can cancel the account at any time.  And there is no cost to you until after you have activated your account.

Not Just Web Pages

Pingability can monitor basic web pages, of course.  It can also check SSL secured URLs (no extra cost); check for the existence or absence of a keyword on that page and check the page responds within a certain time.

But the Internet is about more than web pages.  Pingability can also check:

  • SMTP: Your email server is working, and accepting delivery of an email address you specify.

  • DNS: Your DNS server is responding correctly.

  • FTP: That your FTP server is up and running (including checking an optional login).

  • Ports: That a port on your server (that you specify) is open (e.g. to check if SSH is running).

Get Alerted When Things Go Wrong

  • Alerts Only When There is a Real Problem: You can tell the service to alert you based on rules you specify.  e.g. on the first outage, or when the server comes back up, or if there are, say, five outages in a two hour period.

  • Alerts Via Email, SMS, Phone Call: We can send out alerts via SMS or email.  We can even send out an automated phone call.

  • SSH Actions: You can have our service run any SSH commands you like in the event of a problem.  e.g. to restart your web or database server.  Or even to reboot your server.  The SSH actions are unique to Pingability.com's service.

  • You can alert multiple people/devices in the event of a failure or the site coming back up.
  • Avoid Unnecessary Alerts: You can setup 'events' so the service does not send out alerts during scheduled maintenance.

Monitor What You Need, As Often As You Like

Do you need to monitor a hundred servers every minute?  Or just check one site once an hour?  Whatever your usage we can monitor, alert and report on your setup.

  • Check as Many Sites As You Like: We know that web designers, web hosts and web entrepreneurs can have lots of sites they need to check.  So, unlike other monitoring services, Pingability lets you check any number of sites on any number of servers.

  • Check Your Sites As Often As You Need To: Pingability can be set to check each of your services anywhere from once a minute to once a day.  The more frequent the checking, the more accurate your uptime data will be, and the faster you can respond to problems.

Detailed Reporting

  • Load Problems? You can view historical response time graphs, e.g. to track how site is performing over time and to identify load issues.

  • Detailed Error Logs: You can get a summary report of any errors we discover, as well as a log of the individual error details.

  • Uptime Reports: You can view an uptime report for whatever time frame you specify.  You can exclude certain periods (e.g. scheduled maintenance) from downtime figures.  This can be useful if you are holding someone to an SLA.

  • Emailed Reports: You can tell the site to send you daily, weekly and monthly summary reports of any outages you have had.

Other Neat Features

  • Local Time You can set your own timezone.  So all reports and alerts have times and dates that make sense to you.
  • Status Page Our check listing page gives you a real time status listing for all the checks you have setup in our system.
  • Multiple Monitoring Locations Do not want false alarms?  We verify any failures by re-running our check from multiple other monitoring locations (currently Dallas, New York and Brisbane).

Pricing

  • Free! No charges or obligations during the trial period.
  • Free! We will check your home page (for as many sites as you like) every 15 minutes when you use a Branded Web Page type check and you link back to us for no cost.
  • Free! We will monitor one other check (e.g. DNS, or FTP) once an hour for no cost.
  • Other options start at 9.95 USD/month. See the pricing plan.

Pingability is a RimuHosting Ltd business. RimuHosting services include:

Launchtime™ VPS servers.
RimuHosting™ Dedicated servers.
2 Parts Magic™ Made-to-order web applications.
Pingability™ Website monitoring service.
Bakop™ Remote FTP backup service.
InboxHarmony™ The collaborative inbox for support teams.
Zonomi™ DNS hosting service.
25 Mail St.™ Managed email hosting.
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2012-10-10

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2012-09-04

Burning Man – Chris Twemlow from All Things Web

Some of you may recall us giving out or swapping shirts in previous posts, some of the shirts have been photographed in some amazing places. Chris Twemlow from http://allthingsweb.co.nz/ has just emailed us in this beauty of him at a recent Burning Man Got an interesting location with one of our shirts? grab one from http://www.cafepress.com/rimuhosting, and email us the picture.


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2012-09-10

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2012-08-24

SSH keys on new servers

You can now set your public ssh key(s) at http://rimuhosting.com/cp/sshkeys.jsp. These keys will automatically be added to new server setups. And the keys can be used when you enable a server's console-over-vps feature.

SSH keys are great when you want to avoid re-entering passwords every time you log into a server. The Ubuntu team wrote a page about setting up and using SSH keys. And SSH keys can be used with Windows SSH clients (Putty/Pageant)


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2012-08-16

RimuHosting is hiring!

We are fortunate to have a lot of great customers. In fact we are lucky enough to have enough of you that we are actually getting pretty darned busy.

So we are looking to add another sysadmin or two to help out. This position is for our Cambridge, NZ office. But there may be an option for the right person overseas.

We have posted some details at http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=504465487 If you have a sysadmin friend who you think would be a great fit for us, please pass this onto them.


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2012-07-26

Up-sized VPS options in Australia

We are happy to announce that we have had some super fast servers land in Brisbane with a ton of memory. As a result we can now offer even faster servers with more memory for less money. Isn't Moore's law great? See: http://rimuhosting.com/order/vpspricing.jsp?dc_location=DCBRISBANE We recently spec-ed out, built and shipped a bunch of new Jaketown servers over to the data center we use in Brisbane. Each server has 12 x 2.3 Ghz cores. And each has 96GB of memory. Because of the great price we got on the server, and the large amount of memory you will find that our 'market pricing' algorithms are able to give you the best memory for your dollar we have been able to offer in Australia. To order there see: http://rimuhosting.com/order/v2orderstart.jsp?dc_location=DCBRISBANE&dt_allowance_gb=6#variable_plan


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2012-07-23

Staff Member David Mace is in Hospital, he needs some video get well messages

Some of you may know already, that David Mace is in hospital in a serious way after an aorta rupture. He was taken to the hospital and had several surgeries. Over the past couple of weeks he's been in an induced coma, and there was some uncertainty if he was going to survive. He has started showing improvement now, his blood pressure and pulse are in a good range, they started feeding him through a tube..

Now he is showing some signs of life, and awareness of what is going on around him, his wife has said ‘I think he'd appreciate a funny video from all of you guys’


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2012-07-04

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2012-07-02

SSD-backed VPS hosts

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2012-06-21

London-based Bakop server added; Brisbane coming…

We are happy to announce there is now a London-based Bakop server available. This is in addition to the Bakop server in Dallas. Plus we have one planned for Brisbane (hopefully coming on line next week...). You now have the choice of location for your backups. Great for people when choosing their disaster recover location.


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2012-06-08

RimuHosting taking over HostingDirect’s VPS operations

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