Knowing Your Website Is Up
Skip | 02 February, 2005 18:51
Aside from the hassle of browsing your own website, how do you know if it goes down and is unavailable?
I've been using InternetSeer for about a year. It sends out a spider every few hours to "ping" your website. It simply looks for your http header, which uses very little bandwidth.
If your website is up and running as normal, you won't hear anything from InternetSeer.
The great thing is if your website is unavailable or goes down, you'll get an email alert. And you will get an email alert once your site comes back online.
Very nice indeed.
I don't know if they still offer the one website free monitoring service or not; they used to and it appears they do today. But you need to check that.
But be forewarned: you'll get at least 3 emails a week advertising one thing or another. That is the "price" you pay for a very nice "free" tool.
I can tell you that as far as I know, InternetSeer (and the other ones I use) has been accurate 100% of the time. One of my websites went down twice last year. And both times I got an email alert, which prompted me to contact my host.
You can also do a search for "free website monitoring" to find more providers.
InternetSeer and others like them have much more extensive monitoring offerings that cost you monthly. If you're a realy paranoid type, or simply cannot afford to have your website, FTP, email or database server(s) go down, you'll probably enjoy one of the website monitoring services.
Go for it!
Skip
I've been using InternetSeer for about a year. It sends out a spider every few hours to "ping" your website. It simply looks for your http header, which uses very little bandwidth.
If your website is up and running as normal, you won't hear anything from InternetSeer.
The great thing is if your website is unavailable or goes down, you'll get an email alert. And you will get an email alert once your site comes back online.
Very nice indeed.
I don't know if they still offer the one website free monitoring service or not; they used to and it appears they do today. But you need to check that.
But be forewarned: you'll get at least 3 emails a week advertising one thing or another. That is the "price" you pay for a very nice "free" tool.
I can tell you that as far as I know, InternetSeer (and the other ones I use) has been accurate 100% of the time. One of my websites went down twice last year. And both times I got an email alert, which prompted me to contact my host.
You can also do a search for "free website monitoring" to find more providers.
InternetSeer and others like them have much more extensive monitoring offerings that cost you monthly. If you're a realy paranoid type, or simply cannot afford to have your website, FTP, email or database server(s) go down, you'll probably enjoy one of the website monitoring services.
Go for it!
Skip
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