Free website monitoring service w/15-minute (and 1 min after failure) check intervals

[Clint1]

This has been a topic here from time to time, so I thought I would post this. I found a free website monitoring service that has 15-minute check intervals. 15-minute checks are good because most other free places are 30 minutes at best, many only check every 1 hour. free web site uptime monitor service - server and network failure alerts (http://basicstate.com/)

They will also check every ONE minute once a failure is detected. This on the FAQ page:

"MONITORING FREQUENCY
Individual sites are tested at 15 minute intervals.
Public interest e-commerce sites are tested at 5 minute intervals.
If a failure is detected, the monitoring frequency is set to every minute until the failure is resolved."

I chatted a bit with the owner and he seems like a really friendly guy that answered my emails in minutes. Nice to see that sort of thing.

[cobra2599]

i tried the site that you recommended by i found that the alerts that i received were very delayed at the moment i am test driving a few free sites some bad some good,

at this point i have two to recommend at this point

Siteprobe com bad = free is 1 hour interval good = notifications are rather good
webogre com bad = nothing yet Good = very responsive alerts via text message and email, plus they give all kinds of free tools. lol never use them but there there

I will keep this updated as i get better reviews on the rest that i am using.

[Clint1]

That's strange, I haven't noticed them being delayed. It may be the email address you're using has delays. I've noticed my ISP-given email address is slow to deliver. Obviously you don't want to use an email address that's on the domain(s) you're monitoring. ;)

[Clint1]

Bait 'n switch. This place not only went to 30-minute checks, but now they're starting to charge! So does anyone know of any free website monitoring services that have 15-minute (or less) checks?

[SteveGerencser]

Clint, mission critical services should not rely on free services.. We see this over and over and over and people continue to make these same mistakes.. Please, if you rely on the site for your income, take a part of that income and pay for a professional service..

If this is just so you can keep up a hobby site, then 30 or 60 minutes is more often than you need..

[Clint1]

Clint, mission critical services should not rely on free services.. We see this over and over and over and people continue to make these same mistakes.. Please, if you rely on the site for your income, take a part of that income and pay for a professional service..

If this is just so you can keep up a hobby site, then 30 or 60 minutes is more often than you need..
If something can be had for free, then why pay for it? The fact of the matter is there are free website monitoring services out there, and I've found some that are 15-minute (and one appears to be more frequent than that. I'll post what I find after I sign-up for them).

We all want to know when our sites go down, but the reality is when that happens there's really nothing we can do about it (unless you've somehow caused it yourself). Hosts (at least great hosts such as mine), immediately know when a site or server is down and immediately try and remedy that. Why I need them is to gauge the reliability of a server on which I may currently reside. If I see a trend of downtime, I asked to me moved. If it continues, I change hosts.

What I hate, is bait 'n switch. I have no problem paying for anything if it's worth it (and if it cannot be had for free). I have a problem with "free", then charging. Or charging X, then charging X + X.

I think a 1 or 5-minute service may drive one insane with alerts because most sites probably experience outages due to network problems lasting less than 5 minutes, each day, probably a few times each day. The problem, is finding out if said hypothetical frequent outages is due to "network problems" beyond the control of the host, or, a server/host problem. I see some services that would seem to be able to determine the difference.

[rithika]

Hi,
You may also have a look into 100pulse for your free website monitoring services.. Your website is monitored with the time interval of every 15 mins with the providence of web portal status and periodical monitoring reports.. A good monitoring service provider to rely on...

[Clint1]

Hi,
You may also have a look into 100pulse for your free website monitoring services.. Your website is monitored with the time interval of every 15 mins with the providence of web portal status and periodical monitoring reports.. A good monitoring service provider to rely on...
I already had that one on my list and it's one of the places I'm going to try. ;)