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0 pointsinglor11y ago0 comments

Thanks! This is very helpful.

Our big hosted site is hosted in Europe is actually working but our blogs and a news website are both down. We offer a paid service at 600$ a year and if the main site was down it would be very bad for our reputation.

Our DNS points to Azure on all these domains and things are hosted as "Azure Web Site" - how would notifications work if Azure itself is failing? Would I need to proxy the traffic through elsewhere?

Are there any services that solve this problem for me? I really don't mind paying a few dollars every month and not worry about this.

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joshuak11y ago

There are any number of uptime, and ping services that you can google for. This can raise the alarm in a timely fashion when your site, or parts of your site go down, and then you decide how to handle those issues.

You may also want to google for DNS failover services, to help you automatically redirect traffic in more catastrophic failure cases. There are offerings from google[1], AWS[2], and others.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs

[2]: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/

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