Devlounge lists three web site monitoring services : Montastic, Mon.itor.us, and LinkPatch. These services check your web sites regularly and notify you when something goes down. They also provide additional services, like checking for broken links and such.
While I personally prefer a full featured monitoring tool such as Nagios (with SMS integration via Clickatell), it’s good to know that there are simple and straight-forward ways for basic monitoring. After all, installing and configuring Nagios makes sense only if you are geek or monitoring things is a big part of your business.
Update: Also http://www.alertra.com/ was recommended to me by Michael Cohen over on Google Buzz.
Thanks for useful links! I started monitoring my blogs with Montastic. It offers monitoring up to 3 web sites for free which is enough for me. At least now :) Nagios is good for internal projects IMHO or if you own the VPS.
I just found http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ via http://commandliners.com/2009/02/is-your-site-up/
Down side to using it in a script is that it cannot be on your own host. A group of people could monitor each other’s though ;-)
I found another post on the subject and would like to share: 15 Websie Monitoring Services Compared.
good idea
Hi Leonid, another easy to set up cloud based monitoring service would be MonitorHub – http://www.monitorhub.com – as well as sending alerts for downtime, you can check if chosen text or phrase is also present on the web page.
Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.