Comments on: Top 10 free website uptime monitoring services

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:56:55 +0000

Its important to monitor uptime, response time, and check for errors together. With these three combined, you will have a very dependable and user-friendly website. We provide a tool called EZ Website Monitoring that does this as well as keyword and competitor tracking as well. Check it out if you have time.

By: Travis

Travis — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:09:26 +0000

There are actually 3 types of uptime monitoring tools, depending on your needs. There are “Website Monitoring”, “Network Monitoring” and “Server Monitoring” tools. If you have no control on the server whatsoever (e.g. your website is Hosted in a shared environment for 5 bucks per month), a Website Monitoring tool is all you need. However, if you have control on your servers (e.g. your site is Hosted on a dedicated or on a server that you own), you’d be better off with a Network or Server monitoring tool, as it generally has hardware-oriented features (e.g. server performance, temperature, hdd space, etc.)

By: geetha

geetha — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:23:42 +0000

I suggest to update the list with 100pulse.com a website monitoring service that checks your website at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes unavailable. Free Website Monitoring service with 5 minute interval. Easy way to detect your website outages quicker and more effectively. Free Instant alert when ever your site goes down. No software installation needed.

By: spenser

spenser — Sun, 24 May 2009 07:17:07 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the mention of basicstate.com. You must be ranking for something, because we are seeing garmahis.com in our referrals

Spenser

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:18:46 +0000

If you’re looking for a great website (and device) monitoring system, check out http://binarycanary.com.

They offer FREE 15 minute monitoring of up to 5 web pages over HTTP or HTTPS! Plus their paid accounts (starting at $5 per month) include 1 minute monitoring of nearly any device – FTP, SMTP/IMAP/POP3, round trip email, PING, TELNET, SSL Certificates, Domain Names and more.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:35:04 +0000

microNOC is another monitoring service that offers free and paid website monitoring accounts. At $4.85 a month for paid monitoring of all servers on a domain, plus multiple users email and SMS alerts, all configured for you (no learning curve at all) making it the simplest choice for people who don’t want to become monitoring specialists.

They are also offering to make donations to various charities when you sign up for annual paid website monitoring accounts.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:46:39 +0000

Another service is AlertFox. AFAIK it is the only service that also offers FREE basic transaction web monitoring.

I think its great. The only issue I have with it is that the free accounts does not include SMS notifications. I worked around that by using a free email2SMS gateway.