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Comment follow-up: Mon.itor.us provides free site uptime monitoring
A few days ago, I wrote about MonitorServerUptime, and I received a number of very interesting and informative comments that pointed at various alternatives.
I went through a number of options and finally found Mon.itor.us, which was recommended by commenter Nnyan. The site offers a basic site monitoring service, but it also has a Premium version (which is paid). The main thing that I liked about it, shallow as it may be, is that it looks good. Most other monitoring sites seem plain or dated, but Mon.itor.us seems quite snazzy.
It lets you monitor a website, email server, VoIP gateway, or any old network device/server. The latter lets you specify an FTP, TCP, or UDP port that the device should respond to, or just plain old ICMP ping. All of the other options let you monitor the services in a variety of ways -- it's not just "is port 80 alive?"
They claim to use FusionCharts for their reports, which is a pretty snazzy Flash charting solution. I was unable to test it, though, because I couldn't find a demo account on the site (and I didn't want to wait for two months, until I could accumulate enough data with my "real" account).
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Subscribe to commentslsydexickAug 16th 2010 6:01PM
I was actually going to suggest mon.itor.us on your last article. It's pretty nice, and gives you a lot of monitoring options, even DNS...
However, I didn't comment before because it has been so buggy lately, I've been getting at least 3 or 4 email/sms messages a day and all of them false positives! I'm using the free version, I'm betting the paid version is really nice though. Just a heads up to anyone looking at this service, it's buggy... expect a lot of false alarms.
When it was working it was great! Saved my butt a few times.
JackAug 16th 2010 8:19PM
Are there any free alternatives that have free SMS alerts too??
ToniAug 17th 2010 9:21AM
Keep an eye on http://SimpleWebsiteMonitoring.com - $1/site/month & 1minute checks
Rolf KristensenAug 17th 2010 5:23PM
I can really recommend http://host-tracker.com/. It prevents the common false positive situation, where the server checking the website fails to connect, but the rest of the Internet can.
jsAug 18th 2010 2:40AM
I started off with Mon.itor.us and upgraded to the premium version after realizing it was only 40 cents/month for 1-minute polling. It's definitely a big step up. HTML5 charts, a lot of unique features even a mobile website.