If you are a webmaster of a popular blog or website, then you might know how important is blog uptime. Downtimes can be because of multiple reasons like server issues or high load on server resulting in high CPU etc. But as a webmaster you need to make sure that the site is up all the time (or at least 99% of the time). There are many free website monitoring services, but each of them has features like multiple monitoring location, monitor interval and alert types etc.
We had covered some of the free website monitoring options back in 2008, but things have changed and there are many other services offering free services.
Here we will cover the best website monitoring services comparing them for their features and monitoring interval.
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Name of the monitoring service |
Type (Free/Paid) |
Monitoring Interval |
No of Websites |
Notes |
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Free |
1 Minute |
1 (Email/ 20 SMS) |
Paid accounts available for 5 & 30 websites |
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Free |
30 Minutes |
1 (Email) |
Paid accounts with 1,3 minute check |
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Free |
1 Minute |
1 (Email) |
More options with paid accounts |
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Free |
30 minutes |
1 (Email) |
Multiple paid accounts available |
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Free |
30 minutes |
3 (Email) |
Paid accounts with 1 minute check interval |
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Free |
30 Minutes |
1 (Email) |
Paid accounts with 5 minutes check |
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Free |
* |
Unlimited (Email) |
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Free |
60 minutes |
1 (Email) |
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Free |
60 minutes |
1 (Email) |
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Free |
60 Minutes |
2 (Email) |
Paid accounts have 1 minute check interval |
* There is no mention of check interval on the site.
We have tested most of them on the list and found that Pingdom is the real leader when it comes to monitoring. With their free account and 1 minute check interval, you get the notification instantly. The uptime notifications are also fastest from Pingdom. Overall, if you have only one website to monitor, Pingdom is the best.
Umm. Uptimerobot.com? Free 5-minute polling for up to 50 sites with email, SMS, Twitter, RSS and iOS push notifications (via Boxcar). Worth a mention?
At http://www.monitorhub.com we offer a monitoring service for the non-techies amongst us. Easy to use, simple clear dashboard, free lifetime account available.
http://www.uptimedoctor.com
Most companies do not offer enterprise-grade (1-min interval) monitoring for free. Uptime Doctor lets you monitor URL every minute, completely FREE. This is more than enough for small businesses, developers and bloggers.
There is a correction in the poll frequency and the number of websites mentioned for Site24x7. We monitor 5 basic websites at a 10 min poll frequency under the free plan. And our basic plan begins at just $4.5/month!
Aarathy
Site24x7 Team
I like http://www.uptimedoctor.com . It is offering the best free monitoring service, 5 websites with 1 minute interval.
Hello Nirmal,
Please add http://www.statuscast.com to your list. StatusCast providing best free monitoring service for your website.
I like this one)
http://neowatcher.com/
This is a great list, thanks. Another site I like to use is Apica, they have a 30-day free trial for website monitoring and I’ve had a great experience with them in the past.
apicasystem.com