Live website monitoring with Site 24x7

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Live website monitoring with Site 24x7

by Chris Gilmer Aug 31st 2006

Have you ever owned a website and decide to log on to one day to check it out, but can't because it's down? I have, and it's not cool. Especially since you have no idea how long it was down for, or what exactly happened.

Enter Site 24x7, a website monitoring service that checks the online status of your web property 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This online tool makes HTTP/HTTPS requests at regular intervals to see if your website is online and operating properly. Through this feature you can also see the response time it takes for the connection to be made to your site. When your pages change, when your website is down, or response times are slow you can be notified instantly via SMS or email. The Site 24x7 service is currently free during their beta phase, and will have special commercial versions available when it is out of beta.

Check out some screenshots from the user control panel after the jump.

[Via GoogleSystem]

Display of Websites that are down and Unavailble are at the top, with the time they have been offline displayed. Websites that are online and working fine are also displayed.

Details of a perfectly functioning site with response time on the right.

Email contacts that notifications will get sent out to should there be any issues or concerns with a websites operation.

General Account setup

Account report for a specific domain, with repsonse rates, and system uptime.

Tags: 24x7, monitoring, online uptime, OnlineUptime, website

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Can Erten said 5:04PM on 8-31-2006

I was just looking for it today, I just catch my web site down for 5 minutes and I wondered if this happens regularly :). Very nice application and thank you very much for the link.

Jason Wallwork said 9:46PM on 8-31-2006

Been looking for something like this. Thanks for letting us know!

Enrique said 6:12AM on 9-01-2006

Hi!

I'd like to show you a more advanced tool (free for bloggers and ONG's (org) ). It's name is eXternalTest.com.

You have also with XT a cool tool, to have under control all your sites from desktop.

I invite you all to try it for free.

Regards,

Enrique
eXternalTest.com

Bill said 9:46AM on 9-01-2006

site247.com is pretty cool, thanks for the info. I hope they give beta testers a discount at least when the service moves out of beta.

Gibu said 10:10AM on 9-02-2006

Chris : Thank you for taking note of Site24x7.

Bill : We will continue to have a free edition and would love to see you as a user !

Thanks
Gibu

Alexander Bogoslav said 6:04AM on 9-25-2006

Thanks for the link! I'm going to make a comparison chart for website monitoring services, probably I'll include this one, too.

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