: Alternative to Pingdom website monitoring service I need a website monitoring service to make sure my app is not only up but also responsive. Pingdom is great, but just so expensive. Is

@Gail5422790

I use was it up (free), and they've always seemed to catch my downtime pretty quickly. I'm going to pump the emails into PagerDuty (not free) to send SMSes as soon as I get a chance.

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@Bryan171

uptimerobot.com/ offers a free plan with 5 minute interval checking, with one-minute interval checks on their paid plans.

If you're really concerned with uptime you might also like to consider DNS hosting with a DNS failover service, which monitors your site every 2 to 4 minutes and updates your DNS to point to a backup server should it find that your primary server is down. Of course, this means you need to pay for a backup server, and that you need to mirror the content between the two servers.

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@Eichhorn148

Check into UptimeRobot www.uptimerobot.com It's free, offers HTTP and ping monitoring every 5 minutes with email, text and RSS notifications. To my soon to be former webhost's chagrin, it's very reliable with uptime monitoring logs and past event tracking.

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@Carla537

mon.itor.us and SiteUptime have free/ad-supported plans. Check are only at 30-minute intervals however.

They both have plan upgrades which measure at 5 minute intervals and are cheaper than Pingdom, so you might find a reasonable cost/benefit trade-off.

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