We all know it nearly impossible to monitor our website all the time, keeping watch on them in order to fix any problem that may arises. if your website is very important to you particularly if it a source of revenue to you, then you should hand over the responsibility of monitoring your site to a company offering this web service.
With these service, you get email and in some cases SMS alert when your website has a down time and when it up again. i encourage you to use this tool or service to monitor your website(s) 24-7.
Website monitoring is extremely essential to ensure that your website is available to users and downtime is minimized. Visitors that rely on your website will get frustrated and eventually stop using your website if it is not reliable. Even your search engine rankings may disappear if your site is down frequently or for longer periods.
Imagine you went on holiday or very busy that you didn’t even have time to visit your site, and coincidentally, your website was down for the entire duration you were away, you could loose revenue and loyal visitors to your sit as a result of that downtime.
Below are some of website offering website Downtime and uptime monitoring services
Monitive.com
Focus on important things, monitive check your services every minute and we’ll let you know as soon as we confirm that your websites are down. Because we check up to 1440 times a day, each service.
Multiple check locations around the world. it check uptime from: Netherlands, Deustchland, United Kingdom, USA, Russia, Turkey, Romania, Spain and more. This way you will be sure that your audience is world-wide and your site accessible internationally.
Malware, domain expiration and SSL monitoring
A happy site is a healthy site! This is why we automatically check for malware reports, domain expiration or if you are monitoring HTTPS (SSL) websites, they will check the expiration date every day and let you know as soon as the certificate expiration date is near.
Truly reliable monitoring and alerting
their main concern is that monitoring is being done without interruption or problem on our side, and it always triple-check before notifying you. This way, your inbox won’t be filled with spammy alerts. they monitor most types of internet services,It’s not just websites that they thoroughly check. they’re also really good at FTP monitoring, MySQL monitoring, DNS monitoring, PING, Email, and even your custom TCP Port monitoring.
Internetseer.com
This is one of the world’s leading website monitoring service provider. i personally use their service to monitor my this blog using their free plan. it monitoring systems remotely check your website from several geographic monitoring stations at selected intervals. If the monitoring system is unable to reach the site, an email, cell phone or pager alert is sent to notify you of the problem. Some of the key web site monitoring services available include:
• Availability Monitoring
• Performance Monitoring
• Link and Image Checking
• Transaction Monitoring
• Historical and Detailed Check and Alert Reporting
Montools.com
MonTools is a powerful yet easy to use free website monitoring service. It checks your website or server at regular intervals specified by you and sends you an email, sms, twitter alert or a voice phone call as soon as it detects that your site is down. Most of its main services are free with some added premium features at low price. It monitoring feature include HTTPS Monitoring, FTP Monitoring, Apache Monitoring, MySQL Monitoring, IMAP Monitoring, POP3 Monitoring, SMTP Monitoring, API Monitoring, Ping Monitoring, DNS Monitoring, SNMP Monitoring.
Host-tracker.com
This is another great website in tracking and monitoring your website up and down time. it offers both free and premium services(as low as $5 per month). Your sites or servers will be checked from locations around the globe with specific interval. it features include:
- 24/7 Multi protocol monitoring – HTTP/HTTPS/Ping/Port; MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL; FTP, SSH, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, RDP; Custom TCP Ports; Password protected pages; Content Check.
- Regular Alert – SMS, Email, Gtalk, Skype, Voice Call, iPhone; SMS global coverage; False Alarm Elimination.
- Uptime & Response time reports
- Report & Statistics – Public and email reports; Show your uptime to customers & partners; Customized Uptime buttons and Graphs for your site; Daily, Weekly, Monthly Quarterly and Yearly reports.
- Multiple worldwide locations diagnosis
Siteuptime.com
SiteUptime is a website monitoring service that checks your website or server at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if a problem is detected. Free and Paid plans are available. it monitoring feature include:
HTTP: Web Server; SSL: Secure Socket Layer; Web Page Content, DNS: Domain Name Server, POP3: Email Server; HTTP Password Protection; SMTP: Outgoing Email Server; Custom TCP Ports; FTP: File Transfer Protocol; Ping.
If more than one monitoring location detects a connection failure or error, an email or SMS alert is sent to you. it system will also notify you when you website becomes available again. their software tracks these failures and logs detailed reports of the uptime/downtime of your website each month. These reports are available to you to browse via an account control panel.
Site24x7
Site24x7 website monitoring lets you track the availability and response time of your websites from 40+ monitoring locations across the globe. Keeping a close watch on how your website behaves for your customers, lets you attend performance issues faster before it impacts your end use.
Get in-depth visibility on how your webpage is loading for your customers across the globe. Track performance of individual HTML components such as JavaScript, CSS and images. Also view throughput of webserver running main domains and sub-domains. Monitor availability of critical services. it support monitoring HTTP(S), FTP(S), DNS, PING, TCP, SSL, SMTP, POP, etc.
Monitor critical server metrics such as CPU, Disk, Memory, Process, Services and Network Utilization of Windows servers that run critical applications. Ensure minimum overhead and maintenance costs.
Set alerts to notify you before the SSL certificate of your website expires. Ensure you have a valid SSL certificate to maintain customer confidence on you online presence.
Mail server monitoring from Site24x7 does a complete mail server round trip time check and ensure optimum performance. It does things just like your email client (Outlook or Thunderbird) and can monitor the response time and performance of your mail servers, both outgoing SMTP and incoming POP/IMAP.
Be notified about performance or downtime issues anywhere, anytime with alert mechanisms that support SMS, Email, Push Notifications, Twitter and RSS Feeds.
Pingdom.com
Pingdom is a premium website monitoring service, i think they also have a free plan. Pingdom tests your websites and other infrastructure components as often as every minute to make sure it is all up and running. Monitor parts of a website like the login, search, check out, or other user interactions that are important to you. When an error occurs, you can get alerted via email, text (SMS), Twitter, or a mobile notification to your Android and iOS device.
Serviceuptime.com
ServiceUptime is remote website uptime monitoring designed to help you detect website downtime which can mean lost revenue and profits. The worst thing is users may never return to your website again if they experience difficulties opening your webiste. Register for free monitoring account and take control over downtime today! Let ServiceUptime monitor your website 24/7/365 and alert you immediately upon your website accessibility, availability or performance problems.
Uptrends.com
Monitor your website, server and transactions from a global and end-user perspective. Uptrends is a leading provider with more than 2,500 customers in 45 countries. Maximize Uptime. No software to install. view full list of features.
Freesitestatus.com
This is a Free Website Monitoring and Status Alerts service. they are pretty good. give them a try, though they also have premium website monitoring service.
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Have any website monitoring services you use, feel free to drop a comment, we’ll be happy to hear from you.