Re: External sanity checks

[nevin () enginehosting com]

On Thursday, February 3, 2011 8:31pm, "Jeffrey Lyon" <jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net> said:

> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Justin Horstman
> <justin.horstman () gorillanation com> wrote:
> > +1 vote for Gomez, they are the most advanced and most capable in this space.
> > They are also not very cheap...
> >
> >
> > ~J
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Greg Dendy [mailto:gdendy () equinix com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:35 AM
> > > To: Brandon Galbraith
> > > Cc: nanog
> > > Subject: Re: External sanity checks
> > >
> > > Gomez isn't too bad either for the http side.
> > >
> > > http://www.gomez.com/
> > >
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > > On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:29 AM, "Brandon Galbraith"
> > > <brandon.galbraith () gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Pingdom will do most of what you're looking for (www.pingdom.com).
> > > We're
> > > > quite fond of them after a bad Keynote experience.
> > > >
> > > > -brandon
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Philip Lavine
> > > <source_route () yahoo com>wrote:
> > > > > To all,
> > > > >
> > > > > Does any one know a Vendor (NOT Keynote) that can do sanity checks
> > > against
> > > > > your web/smtp/ftp farms with pings, traceroutes, latency checks as
> > > well as
> > > > > application checks (GET, POST, ESMTP, etc)
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you,
> > > > >
> > > > > Philip
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Brandon Galbraith
> > > > US Voice: 630.492.0464
>
> Pingdom has been pretty solid, only criticism is that all of their
> nodes are North America and Europe.
>
> --
> Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team
> jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net | http://www.blacklotus.net
> Black Lotus Communications - AS32421
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http://www.websitepulse.com/ been around and solid for years, much more advanced than pingdom.com but pingdom.com is 
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