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Monday, October 23. 2006

Server monitoring now in beta

We are pleased to announce that server monitoring is now available for beta users.

This feature is being rolled out under the DNS-plus service level and will be included as a component of that package. Server monitoring allows members to setup service tests on their hostname (A) records and our system will check those services and send out an alert if the service is found to be down or unresponsive.

For more information on this please see:

http://support.easydns.com/server_monitoring.php

During the beta period users need to have the "beta flag" set on their accounts. To have this flag set, please contact support.

Posted by Mark Jeftovic in What's New at 12:05 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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I use a similar service and would switch to EasyDNS, except I need multiple points of contact for alerts, including phone numbers.

#1 Josh L (Homepage) on 2006-10-23 14:05 (Reply)

Not sure how a phone number helps, but definitely need two email addresses for the alerts , one for a pager or phone, and another for the office !

#1.1 mike mattos on 2006-11-03 16:20 (Reply)

A phone number that is called with an automated error message is the best alert we get at the moment. Its proven more reliable than sms/email..

#1.1.1 angus bradley (Homepage) on 2007-01-17 05:41 (Reply)

Do you mean text to a cell phone? Look up your service - a lot of times they have an email address that shows up as a text message.
T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com

I haven't tried easydns yet, but usually if you need multiple emails, just seperate them by commas. Places don't usually check for that.

#1.2 Rick Romero (Homepage) on 2006-11-08 14:32 (Reply)

This would be a great service, but I would also need alternate contact method (telephone or perhaps messenger) since my mail server would be the most important thing to monitor.

#2 Wayne Gustafson (Homepage) on 2006-11-27 16:10 (Reply)

It would be fantastic if you could combine this feature with the round robin dns to provide intelligent responses to dns requests.

For example if i have an a record that is served by 2 ip addresses and easydns monitored those ip addresses... then if one ip address was not responding then the easydns servers could only give out the other ip address and not give out the one that is identified as being down or unavailable by the monitoring service. Basically accomplishing IP takeover...

This would be a killer feature.

#3 afr on 2006-11-29 10:10 (Reply)

I second this, afr. What you describe is exactly what we are looking for in our organization.

I wonder if EasyDNS heard you.

#3.1 michael48 on 2007-06-13 11:43 (Reply)

I second the motion! Tracking active servers and dynamically removing them from a round-robin pool when they fail a monitoring test is an exceptionally useful feature.

#3.2 m. on 2008-04-20 20:31 (Reply)

It would be useful if the DNS management display added a date/time when the first failure was detected. Also on the email some date/time info would be useful - eg date/time of first failure, number of hours (current failure) and date/time of return to service

#4 Richard Jarvis on 2007-03-20 05:04 (Reply)

If you have an important domain better to stick with easydns , I had a few domains with registerfly.com , major problems with credit card over charge, unable to renew domain, 0% customer support. I complain with the better business bereau still nothing.

Currently I have two domains with easydns.

#5 Tom on 2007-04-17 19:26 (Reply)

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