cloudkick - anyone use it?
cloudkick accounts
with my slicehost VPS, the alerts tend to come more infrequently - perhaps once or twice a month, when the 'everything's OK again' email tends to follow the 'your server's unreachable' one after a substantial gap - 45mins to 1hour, usually.
with the alerts relating to my linode, the emails will have a gap of under a minute between them - one 'everything's OK again' alert came 15 seconds after the one telling me my server was unreachable!
i'm wondering if i should be worrying about the stability of my server, or is cloudkick for whatever reason 'operating on a hair-trigger' as regards my linode, but behaving a bit more sensibly as regards my slicehost VPS.
is anyone else using cloudkick and finding it similarly panic-prone, concerning the health of your linode?
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Anyway sounds like your problem is they only have one server monitoring your server so if the connection flakes periodically then it throws an alert. Ideally they should have a cluster monitoring your server and only alert if say 1/3 of them report it's down.
If you're worried I'd e-mail cloudkick and ask them how their system works for free accounts.