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The lightspeed on my server seem to either stop, freeze up, or stop working from time to time. A lot of times, I do not notice it until I get a complaint e-mail, or sales stop, or whatever. Long story short, it is not a good way to find out that it crashes.

I need a monitoring system for this, and konrad recommended uptrends or something to that effect. Which looks like it is good for a whole SITE going off line. Not for something like lightspeed or some server side application.

How would I find a way to monitor this across the server, or sites, that it is on? I want to know when this is happening so it can be caught before I get complaints, and so it can be dealt with immediately by the host when it happens. Not days later.
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Suggestions?

What is lightspeed? The control panel?

Can't go wrong with Monit. You can set threshholds, various tests, things to do for timeouts, failures, etc.

I love it. It's the first line of defense on a machine - but if the whole server itself is hosted (network dies, not pingable), you're severely more fucked than needing a local babysitter.

I am not sure. It is something that is required for one of my scripts. So I am guessing it is an application of a plug in of some sort.

http://www.cacti.net/

Is probably one of the best out there. You can setup monitoring for anything you can imagine...

I use it to track about 200 separate data points for everything from server load to new user registrations to time on site to MySQL load and query times to...

Of course you can use far less ;)

I also use:

http://www.nagios.org/

For notifications when something goes awry; box crashed, excessive query times, MySQL slow queries, etc... you can have it email you, IM you, text you, whatever you need.

Ligthspeed as this one? http://litespeedtech.com/
And i using host-tracker.com at the moment for tracking uptime.

If you want the fastest possible performance from a web server running PHP, I highly recommend nginx running PHP fast-cgi! Blows the doors off Apache :)

It blows lite speed as well.0.25 average load on 150k daily traffic.