I use a service called Pingdom to monitor my websites. In addition to realtime notifications of outages, each month they send me a summary report that tracks the overall reliability of my web sites and web hosting. Here’s a screenshot from the report that arrived for October:
That’s right… my website wasn’t down at all during the month. In related news: I love my web host, InMotion Hosting. They offer a variety of packages including shared hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers. I’m on a VPS and it’s rock-solid. Regardless of your needs (keep the shrimp dinner test in mind), InMotion has a package that’ll provide solid web hosting backed by competent staff. Check them out… the stats speak for themselves.
