July 07: UptimeInspector Competitor Comparison
Intro
UptimeInspector is high above the most of its competitors, however there are highlights we should implement to stay at the technology top.
Competitors included
Host-Tracker, HyperSpin, IPPatrol, UpTrends, WebSitePulse
Short Review: Host-Tracker
Simple HTTP monitoring service. Some HTTP basics included: GET/POST, keywords. Uses simple centralized architecture, non-scalable by feature set. Acceptable for undemanding customers
Pros:
- GTalk alerts supported
- Excellent SEO
- English, French, Spanish, Russian localizations
Contras:
- No port monitoring, no advanced monitoring
- Non-scalable architecture, cannot perform advanced tests due to shared hosting account limitations
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Short Review: HyperSpin
Simple TCP/IP monitoring service. Provides more protocols than Host-Tracker
Pros:
- Reseller Program with branding feature
Contras
- Not reliable. Easily hangs on properly constructed tests, so customer may not get an alert on error
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Short Review: IPPatrol
Medium-level monitoring service with advanced port monitoring for particular protocols (e.g. MySQL is monitored using DB access libraries)
Pros:
- 2 way SMS
- Monitor groups (dependencies)
- Traceroute on error
Contras
- 3 locations all in the UK
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Short Review: Uptrends
Well-featured monitoring service. Adds interesting "competitors" concept, allowing to compare different targets (e.g. own and competitive)
Pros:
- "Competitors"
- Comparison reports
- RSS notifications
Contras
- Only 5 and 10 minute intervals
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Short Review: WebsitePulse
The most advanced from above. WebsitePulse is old, advanced and hard to use.
Pros:
- Transaction monitoring
- E-mail roundtrip monitoring
- URL, trap alerts
Contras
- Fixed plans
- Hard to navigate web interface
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Comparision Table
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Host-Tracker |
HyperSpin |
IPPatrol |
UpTrends |
WebSitePulse |
UptimeInspector |
Monitoring intervals
Available time intervals to perform server check
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1, 5, 15, 30, 60 |
1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15 |
2, 5, 10, 15 |
5, 10 |
1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15 and higher |
1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15 and higher |
Simple TCP/IP Server Monitoring
Simple port connection test, reports whether server accepts connections
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HTTP only |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Advanced TCP/IP Server Monitoring
Advanced port connection test, after TCP/IP connection established it performs handshake by particular protocol (HTTP, FTP, MySQL and more)
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HTTP only |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Full Page Website Monitoring
Complete web page test for connection, load time, broken links, checksum, keywords, authentication, GET/POST
request/response, size and more
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No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
DNS Black Lists Monitoring
Major black lists test for mail server listing. The goal is to alert once mail server is blacklisted
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No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Search Engine Rank Monitoring
Test website search engine rank by specified keywords
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No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Alerts in addition to SMS, E-Mail
Supported alert types in addition to the common SMS and E-Mail
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GTalk, ICQ |
None |
Pager |
RSS, MSN |
Voice Call, IM, Pager, SNMP, URL |
Voice Call, ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo IM, RSS |
Selectable Monitoring Locations
Ability to choose what monitoring locations to use for connection tests
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No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Scheduled Downtime
Ability to set up mainenance periods, so no alerts are sent and no downtime appeared in uptime statitistics and |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Price (USD/month)
Sample price for simple HTTP monitoring with 10 minutes interval
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5 |
2.50 |
15 |
22 |
9 |
5 |
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