Site Downtime Notification Service?

[arcarc]

one hosting company took a dump today for a few hours and i didn't realize it until an hour or so later on.

i've seen the free ones but they usually check like once a day or something. anyone got a service they'd recommend to let me know asap if my sites go down?

 

[keliix06]

Pingdom Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime.

 

[Dreamer]

I use Pingdom.

Checks every minute and notifies by email and sms.
About $10/month for up to five websites.

 

[arcarc]

sweet. thanks. just exactly what i'm looking for.

 

[AdHustler]

siteuptime.com

 

[pocketrockets]

Website Monitoring & Web Server Monitoring Service by WebSitePulse has text, IM and email alerts -- works great!

 

[HarveyJ]

I'm using HostTracker.
The paid service includes SMS notification.

 

[subigo]

Pingdom... because it gives you one minute checks, with SMS notifications, for free. Can't beat that anywhere.

 

[Madin]

I use basicstate.com

 

[spoofy]

We have been using wormly.com

Couldn't be happier

 

[conv3rsion]

pingdom all day long

 

[gamernz]

I use basicstate.com

These guys are free and really reliable. No need to pay for Pingdom.

 

[hirop]

HostTracker for telling me when my server is down, Server Density for telling me when performance is suffering.

 

[subigo]

These guys are free and really reliable. No need to pay for Pingdom.

Pingdom is free now.

Plus basicstate sends out false alerts like mad.

 

[Dimaseo]

I'm not showing pindom as being free. Am I missing something? I see $10 and $40 a month packages.

Pingdom is free now.

Plus basicstate sends out false alerts like mad.

 

[Fatbat]

I'm not showing pindom as being free. Am I missing something? I see $10 and $40 a month packages.

The great big orange box that says...

"Sign up for a FREE account The free Pingdom account lets you monitor one website or server and includes 20 free SMS alerts. Email alerts are free."

 

[subigo]

The great big orange box that says...

"Sign up for a FREE account The free Pingdom account lets you monitor one website or server and includes 20 free SMS alerts. Email alerts are free."

This.

You can only monitor one server with each free account. But there's nothing stopping you from opening multiple accounts.

 

[interwebmarketr]

I use Montastic. They email me when a site goes down, and I also have a Yahoo desktop widget for it.

 

[Dimaseo]

So I feel like a dumb ass but you did answer my question (I click get started, that was why). Anyway, I am going to give it a try and compare.

The great big orange box that says...

"Sign up for a FREE account The free Pingdom account lets you monitor one website or server and includes 20 free SMS alerts. Email alerts are free."

 

[keliix06]

Pingdom has the fewest false alerts of any system we tried, and we've tested most. That said, we run an in house system based on Nagios now to monitor everything, not just see if servers are up.