Monitoring up-time

[Igor]

Hi,

is there a free service with which I can monitor how often and for what time my site is down?

Thanks.

[alphadesk]

Here's some free services that will monitor your site every hour. All have options to monitor more frequent, but of course they charge for that. I use the last one and it has showed me when the site was down a couple of times.

http://monitor.sitepoint.com/plans.php

http://www.siteprobe.com/

http://www.internetseer.com/

[Igor]

Thanks Alphadesk, I have signed up to internetseer.com. :)

[Adrian]

I was already joined to Internet Seer when I got my account. I'm not sure why.

I noticed regular accesses in my log file from internetseer.com, so I looked at the site to find out what it was. I then realized that someone must have signed me up but not told me. I went to the forgotten password link and typed my webmaster email address, and suprisingly it was recognized and I was given 'my' password!

Strange, huh? I just assumed that PowWeb signed me up and didn't mention it.


Adrian

[Starr]

We do not sign you up for anything.

FYI, Internet Seer reports erroneously all the time. Use it as a guide, if it reports an outage, verify first please.

[Qwerty]

hey starr, you PowWeb does submit sites to a search engine (I can't remember the name) and it signs us up for InternetSeer, so PowWeb is sorta responsible for it :)

[alphadesk]

Starr is correct about this. If Internet Seer cannot access your site, don't take this as a definite site down. It just means that Internet Seer could not access your site. As we all know there can be alot of reasons a site may not be available to someone at any given time. It is useful as a guesstimate as to your downtime.

[Ajarn]

Just moments ago, I received another 'Alert' that my website was unreachable for the last 5 hours, but it's okay now.....That just didn't jive with the access logs.

[Qwerty]

yea InternetSeer isn't reliable, also I tried getting removed from them but I still get emails :(

Once my site was down from here and InternetSeer said nothing.
Once my site was up from here and InternetSeer said it was down.