Free Web Services And Tools

You cannot be monitoring your website 24X7 but still for webmasters who are generating revenue from their websites, you need to be there as soon as possible to fix things up when there’s a downtime, or else you’ll potentially suffer a revenue lost. For those who are not making money from their website, there’s still a hit on reputation if the site has gone down for hours (or days) and the owner wasn’t aware. You could lose visitors, or worst, loyal followers.

Fortunately, there are web services that check your website from time to time (whether it’s free or paid services) and notifies you so you can get your hands on it when there’s a downtime. Here’s a compilation of various Web Services and Tools to Monitor Website Uptime and Downtime. Full list after jump.

Free Web Monitoring

If you have not done this before, it’s good to start with a free tracker. There are plenty of web services that track your website status without needing to pay a penny. That of course, comes with some limitation and it varies between service providers. Together with the list compiled, we highlight some information you might want to know:

1. Mon.itor.us

   

   Not only they monitors more than 120,000 sites, Mon.itor.us also offer services like Internal Monitoring and Visitors Tracking. [Read more]

   Frequency: 5 mins
   Premium Services: Yes
   upported Protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, POP3, IMAP, FTP, TCP/IP, more

2. Site Uptime

   

   SiteUptime is a website monitoring service that checks your website at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes unavailable. [Read more]

   Frequency: 30 mins
   Premium Services: Yes
   upported Protocols: N/A
   Alert via: Email, SMS

3. Internet Seer

   

   Perhaps one of the largest web monitoring service available. Services include Availability Monitoring, Performance Monitoring, Link and Image Checking, Transaction Monitoring, Historical and Detailed Check and Alert Reporting. [Read more]

   Frequency: 5 mins
   Premium Services: Yes
   upported Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP. POP3 and other Ports

4. Site 24×7

   

   Site24×7 is the easier, faster and more effective way to monitor the uptime and performance of your web sites, online services and servers. [Read more]

   Frequency: 60 mins
   Premium Services: Yes
   upported Protocols: HTTP, DNS,
   Alert via: Email, SMS, RSS

1. HyperSpin

   

   Website monitoring, web server monitoring & server monitoring from worldwide locations. [Read more]

   Frequency: 1 Hour
   Premium Services: Yes
   upported Protocols: Ping, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, POP3, IMAP, MySQL, and any arbitrary services running on TCP/IP
   Alert via: Email, SMS

2. HostTracker

   

   Web monitoring service that allows you to do an instant site check. [Read more]

   Frequency: 30 mins
   Premium Services: Yes
   upported Protocols: HTTP
   Alert via: Email, ICQ, GTalk, SMS

3. Dotcom Monitors

   

   Services include Web Site Monitoring, Web Application and Business Transaction, Monitoring, Network Device Monitoring, Reporting, Analysis and Graphs, Alerts, Notifications and Escalation, Web Load Stress Test, Multi-User Support. [Read more]

   Frequency: 60 mins
   upported Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, DNS, FTP, SOAP, Video, Audio
   Premium Services: Yes

4. Site Probe

   

   SiteProbe is a tool that checks the status of your website hourly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This gives the webmaster more time to be creative and improve his/her content instead of constantly worrying about whether or not the site is "up". [Read more]

   Frequency: 60 mins
   Premium Services: Yes
   upported Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, and POP3