Monitor Your Web Site’s Uptime for Free

Friday, January 11th, 2008
at 7:46am

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I’ve been dealing with Web servers for more than 10 years now. I own my own dedicated servers at this point, and host through WebAir. I may be able to work out a deal for you, if you’re needing new service. Let’s look at how you can monitor your uptime. There are two websites dedicated to helping you monitor your website(s)… abosolutey for free!

On Mon.itor.us, you can register for free. Provide your email address(es) and website(s). They will send you an email anytime something goes down. You can also request “internal monitoring” to Inspect resource utilization and internal web services. Lastly, they also offer free visitor tracking, to help you understand your web users and business potential, marketing effectiveness and website load capacity.

Over at Montastic, you will Know when your site is down before the customer (or your boss) tells you! Here are a few of the free features you can expect:

Get an email when your site goes down.
Get an email when it goes back up.
Read statuses via RSS or Yahoo widget.
Fun, easy and elegant user interface.
No unreasonable limit on the number of websites monitored.

I recently had an incident where all of the sites running off of Pirillo.com had gone down completely. Apparently, one of the hard drives decided to become 100% filled up! My Server Admin, Allan was able to diagnose the problem and fix it for me thankfully. It was great to have these services email to tell me everything was borked, so I was able to get it taken care of immediately.

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21 Comments

Windows Vista Torrent

January 7th, 2008
at 10:45pm

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MrYapper07

January 11th, 2008
at 2:17am

useless

ModHacker

January 11th, 2008
at 6:02am

modhacker in the chat at 2:30

Dragonart100

January 11th, 2008
at 7:04am

what was the second one???

Scott Graham

January 11th, 2008
at 5:09pm

Hi,

Thanks for that Chris very useful range of tools you’ve mentioned there, another good example of an “Uptime Monitor” is Host-Tracker (www.host-tracker.com), which includes features such as:

# Possibility to receive error notifications both to your Email, ICQ, GTalk or cell-phone via SMS;
# Possibility to receive specified (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly) reports;
# Accumulation of availability statistics with further reporting;
# Resource accessibility instant check.
# Uptime button;
# Distributed monitoring;
# Instant site check;
# Monitoring period – every 1/5/15/30/60 minutes;
# The HEAD/POST/GET HTTP-methods support;
# Keyword presence control of a page;

I’ve been using it for two and a half years now and never had an issue, I cannot recommend it more!

Just giving the heads up.

Coolbam14

January 11th, 2008
at 7:06pm

Hmm, when i used to have a website which I ran out of money to keep it up i used that too know if my website was up when people asked what happened to it? This is a great piece of work and and might use it when I have money to put my website up.

ipikee

January 11th, 2008
at 7:15pm

What is webair? and yeah can you put me in tough with “THE GUY” and are you talking about internet like insight’s internet, well if so can you get me hooked up with the guy?

William

January 11th, 2008
at 7:16pm

hey chris Thank you one billion times over!!! I have been looking at thease type of serices but all of them cost money. when I saw this I fliped out. i have now signed up and I was amased I tured off my server and with in 2 minutes I had an email in my end box. thank you chris

xox1111

January 11th, 2008
at 7:43pm

Thank You Chris It is always good to know when a server goes down. It can be bad if the server goes down and you do not have any way of finding out that is has gone down. Thanks for the websites they will help out when I get my domain set up.

paranoid

January 11th, 2008
at 8:11pm

Wow, I didnt even know that there was monitoring for that. Ill definitley have to forward this to other people on my mailing list. Many of my friends have their own websites and this may help them.