In the past, I've used BasicState as it was a great free tool to keep an eye on the site, but since I had someone else adminning the website, that kind of fell by the wayside.
Well, today we changed much of the architecture of our Magento website and this evening I discovered that the site had been down for 20 mins - just because I went to look at it.
I realised that we could have lost business and it brought home to me how important an uptime monitor is. So I got onto Google and the top article was from Mashable - listing the top 10 uptime monitors. Given that the article was 2 years old, I wasn't hopeful that it would still be available, let alone free. But to my delight it was and is.
Next I checked out for reviews and found an article which contained an interview of the guy that designed and built the system. I liked what I read, so I signed up. What tool is it?
Uptime Robot
The blurb on Uptime Robot looks almost too good to be true.
- It says that it will monitor my websites every five minutes.
- It also says that I can have up to 50 websites.
- What's more - I can choose to be notified by SMS text message, Twitter, RSS or email.
- And they've got an Apple App for push notifications to an iPhone or iPad.
- But what astounds me is that the 5 min monitor is free.
This - I NEED to see.
So, I've set up a monitor for our main website and just set it up to drop notifications to me by email I need to investigate the Apple App. If the system works well, then I don't mind parting with cash to buy an App that makes sure our bread-and-butter is still working.
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