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I am looking for simple software that allows me to monitor popular webhosters in the following months to see performance.
I have used smokeping in the past for this purpose, but it seems that smokeping is horribly outdated and pretty hard to configure.
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
I don't see anything "horribly outdated" and "pretty hard to configure." about smokeping compared to other packages. In fact if you only want to measure latency (so you don't need a full network monitoring system like Opennms or Nagios) I always recommend smokeping.
There is a simple solution for that with a relatively new service CocoPacket.
Check out the demo page -> https://demo.cocopacket.com
It works like Smokeping does, but it is more up to date.
