Planning technical work with the service HostTracker

At the weekend, we usually carry out the planned technical work on updating servers and software. The site has an average of “prevention” of about 20-30 minutes, and although this time is not critical for our business, the total uptime according to the HostTreker counter drops noticeably.
From the client's letter

The solution is. Function Schedule technical work online service monitoring server availability allows you to exclude scheduled downtime from the general picture of uptime.
At the same time, you can add planned maintenance as a one-time or on a regular basis. In addition to counting statistics, this feature also allows you to manage the sending of alerts about the fall of resources.


Here is what the plan looks like:


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General statistics recommendations:

• If the work is done outside of business time and a simple site means nothing - turn off statistics recording, uptime does not suffer.
• If in business time, then you can either take it into account or ignore it.

How to deal with alerts?

• Leave it on, to ensure that the work began and ended on time.
• Turn it off - if you do all this yourself and extra SMS will only distract you from work and deplete SMS balance.

I have 100 sites on the server, do I need to do this for everyone?

Of course not! It is possible to apply schedules to multiple sites at once. In the presence of a filter that allows you to distinguish sites on the parameters of monitoring, as well as on tags. When registering sites for monitoring (all 100 sites can also be included in a single action - only a list of URLs is needed), we establish a single tag - and we can easily find all sites from the required server.



IMPORTANT
All schedules must be made and included at least 12 hours before the actual work.
Why? Our service, without a doubt, claims to be an objective and independent uptime counter. Thus, we do not allow site owners to give random drops for the planned and thus artificially increase uptime. If we are measured - it is fair.

By using the WebTracker, you can use it. Also, you can subscribe for free sms and email up and down alerts.