Hostgator down.

[nlinecomputers]

And most webmonitoring sites are worthless because they are run by hosting companies who obviously want to slam the competition. Unless you roll your own you can't be certain of any of it.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

pingdom is good, not flawless but its what I use. Also you can share uptime reports with others to prove the information.

 

[MotzTech]

My site hosted with bluehost has the following stats YTD


Uptime 99.79%

Downtime 11h 1m

Number of Downtimes 160

I know for a fact that this is not completely accurate though. Sometimes the site would be down but pingdom would say it was still up.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

My site hosted with bluehost has the following stats YTD


Uptime 99.79%

Downtime 11h 1m

Number of Downtimes 160

I know for a fact that this is not completely accurate though. Sometimes the site would be down but pingdom would say it was still up.

I've never seen that before, do you have an http check set to every min? Ive seen on rare occasions when multiple probes fail that it lists the site as going down when its actually up.

Oh wait...I have seen where a site loads ridiculously slow to the point where it seems down and pingdom still marks it as up but if you open up the response time logs youll see the ridiculous response time.

 

[MotzTech]

I think that problem is that for a while I just had a response check. It did not actually check for a string or anything. My site is part of cloudflare, so sometimes if bluehost is down, the cloudflare page will load instead. From Pingdoms point of view it was "up". I have since refined it to search for a string on the home page to help get more accurate results.

 

[ABTECH]

My site is hosted through Bluehost and was down the other day for most of the day as were others. I noticed on my Wordfence activity log multiple failed login attempts from bluehost, justhost, hostmonster, and hostgator. I don't use the default login credentials so it wasn't an issue but I thought that was very interesting behavior.

 

[TAPtech]

They were DDOS attacked on the following day after the outages, perhaps there was more mischief going on as well.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Hostgator is down again with major outage.

 

[NYJimbo]

Hostgator is down again with major outage.

They are a giant, do you mean parts of them are down or everything ?

 

[acscva]

My reseller account, websites and email are fine. What isn't working for you?

 

[nlinecomputers]

Anything running out of there Provo Utah center was down. My sites have been coming back online for the past 30 minutes. Was down about 3 1/2 hours.

 

[TAPtech]

I stuck with HostGator after the outage but my page loading times were getting slower and slower. After contacting support multiple times they would say I need to resize the images or something silly. They would never acknowledge that the sites were loading slowly, even though it would take upwards of 10 seconds half the time, and the wordpress backend was so slow it was almost unusable.

Finally switched to Stablehost and have been much happier. Any support tickets have been answered by the same person, seems to be a very knowledgeable one as well- they don't start you off with a RTFM person, just right to a good server tech.

 

[jdpetrov]

I use inmotion hosting...i have a vps account...i'm never let down by their speed, uptime, or customer service