Can anyone recommend a good third party service that can notify you when your webserver is down?
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1duplicate? serverfault.com/questions/66897/…– warrenOct 21, 2009 at 5:41
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and similar to this SU q - superuser.com/questions/19126/…– warrenOct 21, 2009 at 5:42
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serverfault.com/questions/1014/…– warrenOct 21, 2009 at 5:43
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Warren, could it be that you are hinting that posters should do a search before posting? What a novel idea.– John GardeniersOct 21, 2009 at 6:45
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Product and service recommendations are specifically off topic for ServerFault (see point 4 in the NOT About section of the FAQ)– sysadmin1138 ♦Jan 5, 2012 at 3:26
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I signed up for a Pingdom account a few days ago for a new site, and have found it to be really good. I signed up for their "Basic" Account, which includes 5 checks, 20 SMS alerts (could be higher) and unlimited emails for $9.95/month. I haven't been able to test how effective it is at alerting me when the server is down, as I have luckily not had any downtime on my site.
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+1. We rely on Pingdom for monitoring a pretty high-profile web site. It never let us down. Oct 21, 2009 at 6:08
Here is simple service:
Down Notifier http://downnotifier.appspot.com/
1) it's free! 2) it's easy to start (10 seconds to subscribe to notification) 3) it's really easy! no need to register.
AlertFox offers web monitoring plus web transaction monitoring. It runs the tests in real IE and Firefoxm, and you receive a screenshot of the site when an error is detected - very useful. It proved useful to convince our sys admin that there was indeed an error on "his" server (php update bug) :D
https://www.alertsite.com for example, but usually these are not for free. Actually if somebody can recommend a free solution i am also interested.
I use Watchmouse. It costs about $50 a month to monitor 2 IP addresses.
Montastic gives you some very basic but free monitoring.
answered Nov 3, 2009 at 11:16
