Server Monitor: Review & Comparison

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Description:

UptimeInspector is capable of testing the following TCP/IP servers: PING, SMTP, SSH, Telnet, POP3, IMAP4, MySQL, HTTP(S) and FTP. It extends a common monitoring approach by adding server-specific tests to the simple connection test. Thus it is not only the downtime state that is reported, but also server malfunctioning, invalid web page contents, broken files, an incorrect SQL query response, and other problems.

In addition to TCP/IP server monitoring, UptimeInspector can search for a mail server IP address in DNS blacklists, and report if a server is listed, and therefore banned from mail delivery to particular destinations.

For webmasters UptimeInspector offers a Full Page Test, which includes a keyword presence or absence check, a check for broken links, verification of page or file size, load time measurement, MD5 checksum calculation, SSL certificate expiration, and other checks besides. Access rules can be set up to use the proper authentication method, web agent and referrer string, GET and POST parameters, options to load images, frames, scripts and CSS files.

For website owners and major SEO purposes UptimeInspector provides a Search Engine Rank test to check a website position against major search engine indexes (Google, Yahoo, MSN). If website position goes up, down or website is removed from the top of the index, alert is sent.

Also UptimeInspector provides a Brokenlink test that allows to check a website regularily detecting broken links or images appeared, which is a must-have tool for websites updated often.

Notification options include: SMS (worldwide), Phone call (not all of the countries supported), AIM, ICQ, Yahoo IM, MSN Messenger, RSS, Google Gadget, Vista Gadget, E-Mail.

UptimeInspector operates a WorldWide monitoring network. Nodes are located in the US, Europe and Asia.

Pricing is moderate. There are no "packages" common to other monitoring solutions, it is easy to add and remove monitoring targets and change options with no need to switch between packages.

Key Feature: "All Included" professional monitoring solution