The Best Free Services to Check your Website Uptime

Today, there are too many services on the internet that would give you an opportunity to check your website uptime status. Uptime is a very important thing for every website on the internet, this means your website is up and running properly.

Any website on the internet has some downtimes. When your website is down, logically, any visitor who get to your website at that time is restricted to view and browse through it. Making it unreachable and displaying an error – this means less visitors for you, and we all know how visitors are important for every website on the internet!

Downtime Reasons

There are many reasons why websites break down and making them unreachable, and there are some of the most common reasons why:

a.) Traffic Problems

Many websites goes down because of the traffic problems. This is caused when loads of visitors comes to that specific website at the same time. This effect causes a huge server resource load which usually end up with website downtime.

b.) Server Problems

Many hosting providers on the internet can cause you a lot of problems with your website. Most of them has an unreliable servers which causes websites to go down. This is one of the main reasons why websites goes down.

c.) Using too Much Resources

With my previous hosting provider I have had a lot of problems with my website resource consumption. This caused my website to go down for a whole day! To reduce your website resource usage you will need to optimize it properly. I will write about this problem in one of my future articles for sure.

Of course, there are so many other reasons why websites goes down. Above problems are just the most common on the internet.

Website Uptime Services

Most web hosting providers guarantees you a 99 percents of the uptime. There are some tools that can help you to monitor uptime stats of your websites – completely for free:

Pingdom

This is definitely the most advanced service on the test. And probably the most popular on the internet right now. Allow you to monitor one website with a lot of stats, 20 free SMS credits and amazing 1 minute checking interval! Of course, this is related to free accounts!

HostTracker

HostTracker is a very popular uptime monitor service. Allow you to monitor up to 2 websites with minimum 30 minutes frequency check. Does not give you any free SMS credits but support SMS reporting if you go for a paid plan.

Uptime Party

A very simple service which allows you to check one server or a website for free. Monitor interval is 30 minutes. Anyway, you can try this service for free and if you want to check more sites you would need to pay for it.

SiteUptime

A popular website uptime monitoring service. With free account you can monitor up to 4 monitoring locations within 30 or 60 monitor intervals. Gives you some advanced reports and cheap upgrade to the higher plans.

Are My Sites Up

This is a service which has a huge potential. Allow you to check up to 5 websites with free account. Monitor interval is around 60 minutes (25 checks per day). Interesting thing is that website gives you unlimited number of announcements via SMS or email if your website is down or up.

Montastic

I have to admit that this website looks like it’s created in 90’. Through it would give you to check your website uptime with 5 minutes monitor interval. You can setup to read statuses via RSS feed or Mac & PC widgets – pretty cool.

Site24x7

This is a professional uptime monitor service on the internet. But, you can not do almost any advanced feature with your free account. With it you can monitor 1 website with 60 minutes or more checking interval. Anyway you can try how it work for free.

Binary Canary

This is a very good service which give you to monitor up to 5 websites for free. You can setup to monitor their availability every 15 minutes. Gives you an opportunity to receive notifies by SMS, Email or SMS by Email services.

Service Uptime

It’s a popular service with which you can monitor your website with 30 minutes interval. Gives you a nice uptime/downtime reports monthly, daily, weekly or even yearly. Unfortunately does not gives you an opportunity to get reports by SMS for free.

Up Trends

UpTrends will check your website every 30 minutes to see if its up or down. Gives you an opportunity to place one small button on your website to see how much your website is up or down in period you decide it. Registration is not required!

Features Chart

Below, you can see a chart that display you some of the main features every above mentioned services support or not support.

I hope you will find an appropriate service that will satisfy your needs. After all, you can try out all these services completely for free and check out which one is the best for you!

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