Almost all Web Hosting Providers guarantee above 99% server uptime But, who knows? Anything can go wrong any time. Server failure can cause loss of traffic, and not many Web Hosting providers would let you know when the server is down. No one can predict when something’s gonna go wrong. There are two options to be safe from server downtime: Either logging on to your blog every 30 minutes or a hour, or using Website Uptime Monitor services.
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There are many Uptime Monitoring Services both free with limited features and paid with much advanced features. You can choose the service depending on your needs. But I think even free services provide features which are sufficient. This post is about the best five Website Monitoring Services available for free.
Best Free Website Monitoring Services For 2013
Uptime Robot is a totally free monitoring service, with which you can add up to 50 websites. Uptime Robot monitors your website in 5-minute intervals. If your website goes down, then you will instantly be alerted via via e-mail, SMS, RSS, Twitter or push notifications. Uptime Robot has an Ajax interface, which makes managing monitors, viewing stats and log easy and simple.
2) Monitor.us
Monitor.us is another free service, with over 110,000+ users. It tracks website availability from different locations around the world, using HTTP, HTTPS, PING, DNS. In case website goes down, then you can get instant alerts via via email, IM, SMS or live voice.
3) Internetseer
You can add any number of websites on Internetseer. It offers monitor frequency of 60 minutes and reports you (if website goes down) to unlimited number of contacts. If you log in to your account, you can see real-time stats. You will also receive an Email weekly with detailed performance reports.
4) Site24x7
Site24x7 allows you to add up to five monitors. It tracks the availability of the website every 10 minutes. The tests are conducted from over 40+ monitoring locations across the globe. You will instantly be alerted via Email if they find your website unavailable. I have used this service once, and I was happy with it.
5) SiteUptime
With SiteUptime, you can monitor only one website per account. SiteUptime monitors a website from different locations around the world using protocol tests, and if the test fails from one or more locations, you will instantly be alerted. It monitors a website every 30/60 minutes. You can get alerts via Email, when your site goes down and when site goes up again.
There are many other free website monitoring services, but these are the ones I have heard and read about everywhere, and personally used. I recommend you to use any one of the above, because they are the most trusted and produce accurate reports.
Have you tried any other website monitoring services other than the five listed above? Do you think there are services better than these? Please share your thoughts via comments.
I’d also recommend StatusCake.com – http://www.statuscake.com – which as far as I know is the only website monitoring service to offer unlimited monitoring for free. Great if you’ve got lots of your own or client sites. Alerts via email, Twitter, SMS and push notifications for iOS & Android 🙂
Hi Thejas, may I recommend our webiste monitoring service Uptrends – http://www.uptrends.com – whicht has one of the largest global monitoring network available.
Hi. Any particular reason why http://www.pingdom.com is not included? We’d love to hear what you have to say about our website monitoring services, including free accounts, which can check your site as often as every minute.
Website experience uptime and down time and in order to know if your server still up and your website performance is stable then you need good website monitoring tools and these tools are good option and I just start using http://www.monitive.com.
Another free website monitoring service would be MonitorHub, it is aimed at non-technical business users. http://www.monitorhub.com, they offer a lifetime free account for a website checked every 5 minutes. Paid plans are available too for per-minute checking.
I am afraid I would add another tool here in the list – it is Anturis (http://www.anturis.com) that can be used for website, server, database, network monitoring and presenting some troubleshooting variants for a trouble.