When one of our sites is down, it’s a “all hands on deck” scramble.
I use several monitoring mechanisms to let me know if there are problems on one of the sites I work on.
I recently added a service from APLUS Monitoring.
Their services start at FREE !!! – and go up to $20.95 per month. Are customizable, send email alerts (there is an SMS option) and have good reporting.
Here’s how they describe their services.
APlusMonitoring is a solution for your whole company. We monitor your website, server availability and performance externally from our worldwide network of monitoring locations, 24/7 and every day of the year. When your website or network fails to respond, we notify you instantly via Email, SMS/Text Messaging, RSS so that you can hit the right chord at the right time and fix them before it costs you money, customers or reputation. ”
In addition, we keep detailed statistics about your website’s availability and response time so that you can have overall picture of your website availability and downtime. Read more about How it Works or Sign Up for a free service.
After several weeks I continue to be impressed.
Read [ HERE ] to see is it might be useful to you.
UPDATE
Receive a discount when you sign up for any paid service before April 10th 2009.
PSSMIS – 100% off on 1st month.
MSYR01 – 50% off on yearly payment.
It appears the service is free for 30 days, then requires payment.
Where is "Free" option on website?
Hi Joe,You mentioned that you "..use several monitoring mechanisms to let me know if there are problems on one of the sites I work on." could you let me know what they are and where I can get more info as I am looking for a good monitoring site. CheersScott
Hi Scott,You can try http://www.aplusmonitoring.com. I have developed this website and you can reach me via email at robin@aplusmonitoring.comOur free plan comes with limited feature, 1 monitor from 1 location and the check is made every 60 mins which equals to 24 checks a day. But if you upgrade to paid plans like Eco Silver II it comes with 4 monitors from 2 location and checks every 5mins which equals to 576 checks. You will recieve email alerts whenever your site is down and also when it recovers back from downtime.Also paid plan has support for sms. If you have any queries, please feel free to email me.Also, my asp.net site username is worldclasscodersCheers,Robin
We have updated our products and prices section, checkout http://www.aplusmonitoring.com/…/Products.aspx for more details and
you can get answers to your question on faq section under recent entries – ttp://www.aplusmonitoring.com/FAQ.aspx
This is a simple test.
Update Notification !!1. We have updated products and prices section on our site.2. We offer free service till the time you are registered user on our site. For details see recent entries under faq section.Cheers,Robin