How do you test your website
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With the goal of ensuring that a website is truly global, what services do you use to confirm that your website can be accessed from around the world?
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@DustinB3403 said in How do you test your website:
With the goal of ensuring that a website is truly global, what services do you use to confirm that your website can be accessed from around the world?
I typically use http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ for website status. For website status around the world? Not sure.
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The only way a website isn't global is if it's blocked by something like "The Great Firewall of China". If an internet connection is available, locality doesn't matter.
Let me guess, some oddball request from management?
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@travisdh1 Kind of, customer needs . .
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@DustinB3403 said in How do you test your website:
@travisdh1 Kind of, customer needs . .
Ask them if they can get to it. If they can tell then it is globally available. Or the other side of it, ask them to clarify their requirements.
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@DustinB3403 said in How do you test your website:
@travisdh1 Kind of, customer needs . .
I'd would've liked to hear the conversation that even got this thought process started, would've been one of those times where I either blow a gasket and call an ID10T an ID10T, or stop breathing I'm laughing so hard.
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@travisdh1 said in How do you test your website:
@DustinB3403 said in How do you test your website:
@travisdh1 Kind of, customer needs . .
I'd would've liked to hear the conversation that even got this thought process started, would've been one of those times where I either blow a gasket and call an ID10T an ID10T, or stop breathing I'm laughing so hard.
Or both?
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@DustinB3403 If you (or your customer) are using PRTG, you could use the "cloud ping" and "cloud http" sensors to monitor reachability from around the world. Those sensors will try to reach your website from 5 different AWS data centers, and will report on reachability and response time from each of those data centers. If something goes wrong, you can get an alert, so you know you need to react. The free version of PRTG will let you run 5 cloud http and 5 cloud ping sensors.
If that's not enough, check out services such as https://www.site24x7.com/, which provide similar ongoing monitoring on a larger scale.
If a one-time or manual test is enough, check out services like https://tools.pingdom.com/ or https://www.webpagetest.org/, which are free and don't require any setup on your side, but only provide a snapshot of up/down at the time you try them.
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We use Alertra.
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@Kimberley-Paessler said in How do you test your website:
@DustinB3403 If you (or your customer) are using PRTG, you could use the "cloud ping" and "cloud http" sensors to monitor reachability from around the world. Those sensors will try to reach your website from 5 different AWS data centers, and will report on reachability and response time from each of those data centers. If something goes wrong, you can get an alert, so you know you need to react. The free version of PRTG will let you run 5 cloud http and 5 cloud ping sensors.
If that's not enough, check out services such as https://www.site24x7.com/, which provide similar ongoing monitoring on a larger scale.
If a one-time or manual test is enough, check out services like https://tools.pingdom.com/ or https://www.webpagetest.org/, which are free and don't require any setup on your side, but only provide a snapshot of up/down at the time you try them.
Along with pingdom, we usually use https://geopeeker.com which also gives a snapshot from multiple locations
