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/// Posted by Alexandre Brabant on Monday, April 16, 2007
Free Website Uptime Monitoring tool: InternetVista
Every time I work on a site where traffic goes up seriously, I think it is a good practice to set up a Website Uptime Monitoring tool. In a nutshell, uptime can be defined as the time during which a web server is working without failure. If the server is down, it is called by contrast downtime. In the best case scenario, your site would be available 100% of the time but depending on where it is hosted (and how), this percentage can be of 99% or 95% or even lower. That’s why it is important to keep track of your site uptime by using an Uptime Website Monitoring tool.
Today I want to share with you a a great & free resource that does that. It is called InternetVista. The good thing about this tool is that there is no time limit to the free trial version account. Alternatively, the verification of the uptime of your site is done only every 60 minutes as opposed to a paid service where verifications can be done every 5 minutes and even with shorter time periods.
The free trial version of InternetVista Uptime Website Monitoring tool offers the following:
- Monitoring of 1 website (http)
- Verification every 60 minutes
- Email alerts
- Weekly reports by email
- Available free of charge with no time limit
I think every Search Marketer who manages a small or big daily pay per click budget money to promote a site on behalf of a client should have one of these Free Uptime Monitoring tools in place. Try it and let me know what you think.
Comments
basicstate.com is also free, but offers unlimited sites per account, multiple alert recipients and 15 minute testing intervals.
Posted by spenser on 06/21 at 12:56 PMThanks for letting me know. I will check out the service when I have a minute. Alex
Posted by Alexandre Brabant on 06/21 at 02:38 PMFree Website Monitoring is trickery. It is rather more reliable to use such monitoring as Site24x7 or http://www.dotcom-monitor.com. They are paying but the price is not high for confidence in the future. Besides there is a long list of extra services.
Posted by Nik on 12/21 at 07:08 AMI have already tried basicstate.com and I have no any complaints.
Posted by ziggy on 02/05 at 04:52 AMTry mon.itor.us it is also free
Posted by Nii on 02/05 at 04:54 AMThanks for the useful post. It is information of current importance for me
Posted by bento on 02/18 at 10:08 AMI have already tried dotcom-monitor, It is awesome!
Posted by website monitoring guy on 02/21 at 08:27 AM
