Comments on: Free website monitoring services

By: geetha

geetha — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:46:29 +0000

I use http://100pulse.com for monitoring service. I think its great. It gives 5minutes free monitoring. Also has notification for multiple email account, user defined mail template. Schedule maintenance options and many other features.

By: spenser

spenser — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:36:01 +0000

Hi Michaal,

Two comments with respect to http://basicstate.com

First, is that the SMS works with cell phones that are reachable by the service provider clickatell.com, that should be just about anywhere, and certainly Germany. The only known problems with SMS is where a number has been ported between carriers and the SMS is landing at the old carrier.

Second, a 302 http status code is defined as a temporary redirect. A lot of websites do that on the home page. It is a perfectly valid and well formed http response.

If your SQL server is down, then you should be returning a 500 series http status code. 300 series status codes are purely advisory in nature and should not be treated as an error.

By: Hovhannes Avoyan

Hovhannes Avoyan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:13:39 +0000

http://monitis.com is the premium service from the same company which also provides http://mon.itor.us. And recently monitis start providing fully customizable plans.

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:23:35 +0000

Jesper, thanks a lot of the link. I didn’t know that there are so many free web monitoring services.

Nate, mon.itor.us looks great. It seems they don’t have paid plans anymore. What check period do they use?

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:33:37 +0000

I use http://mon.itor.us for all of my servers.
It’s got a nice Web 2.0 interface and allows process, memory and disk space monitoring as well as the usual Ping, protocol and HTTP monitoring.

Also has the option to buy text messages to send alerts to if the standard email alerts aren’t enough. Minimum buy for texts is 50 (at $12.50), but I find that this is enough for me. Their paid plans start at $9.95/mo with only 20 texts, I only run 4 servers so I don’t think I’d need any more than 20 texts a month…

By: Jesper Ravn

Jesper Ravn — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:25:13 +0000

Hi Michael

The link below, list 10 freeware web monitoring services.

http://www.nirmaltv.com/2008/12/09/10-free-website-monitoring-services/

/Jesper