Monitor Website downtime

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marine1

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Hi everyone
Need some advice, is there a service that monitors your website if it goes down?
Domains.co.za do not offer this and yesterday my site went down, I would never have known but a customer let us know, Domains.co.za do not offer this service, which I think is quite stupid
Wordpress site
Any advice please?
Thanks
 
marine1 said:
Thanks i signed up, I see they give you free 50 monitors, how does that work, is it free in total or how exactly does that function, sorry new to this

Thanks Thor
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50 free monitors with a limitation as to how quickly they poll.
 
marine1 said:
Hi everyone
Need some advice, is there a service that monitors your website if it goes down?
Domains.co.za do not offer this and yesterday my site went down, I would never have known but a customer let us know, Domains.co.za do not offer this service, which I think is quite stupid
Wordpress site
Any advice please?
Thanks
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You can also try hetrix tools. I think you can monitor 10 or 15 sites or ips for free. Think they poll every minute.

Free Uptime Monitor | Server Monitor - HetrixTools

Minimize your downtime by being the first to know about it! Start with 15 Free Uptime Monitors, checked every 1 minute.
hetrixtools.com hetrixtools.com
 
marine1 said:
So if I monitor 50 times in 1 day thats it then I am out, is this correct?
What then happens after the 50?
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I think a monitor in their sense would be one url you monitor, ie you have one for your front end, one for your api etc etc
 
marine1 said:
So if I monitor 50 times in 1 day thats it then I am out, is this correct?
What then happens after the 50?
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No no, so 50 = 50 unique websites you can monitor


Free version the polling frequency is 5 minutes iirc
 
InvisibleJim said:
Many open source monitoring options

I'm partial to Zabbix. CheckMK is a good Nagios derivative.

Prometheus, InfluxDB or Riemann also might suit perhaps. ELK stack I expect could also be used.
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Bit of a necro, but:
The guy doesn't even know what a "monitor" is and you're advising him to go ahead and build the NASA space shuttle... :cautious:

@marine1 - as @Thor has mentioned, UptimeRobot should more than suit your needs. However you really should be considering more than just a basic URL check.

Remember to consider multiple check scenario's:
1x Check for a specific URL e.g. does my sales.html page exist
1x Check for a keyword e.g check our sales page has not been hacked - and still has our product word + phone number present vs something like H4ck3d by Turk1$H m4f14 plastered all over your site!
1x Check for an HTTP response code e.g are we getting 200 OK or a 403 forbidden

That way you know a) your pages exist as you expect b) your content exists as you expect and c) your customers can view said content.
 

Welcome to Alert Alfred

Alert Alfred is a website management tool and includes a downtime and google analytics monitor with an integrated notification system.
www.alertalfred.com www.alertalfred.com
 
Install Jetpack( also free)

Sends you emails on downtime, site responsiveness etc

With some extra goodies
 
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