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If you host your website, monitoring is a critical aspect of its management and one important way of determining its availability and uptime. Many hosting providers have SLA (Service Level Agreement) to credit your hosting account with either money or extra time of hosting if your site’s uptime doesn’t meet the SLA as per the initial agreement with the hosting provider. But how is that you know the uptime of your website? Of course, by monitoring it! Here is a list of companies that offer website monitoring services for your website, some are free and since some offer advanced website monitoring, they charge for it. Based on what type of monitoring service you choose, they provide you with an up to date uptime report, notify you when your site is offline and some even provide website monitoring from multiple monitoring servers from across the world.

• SiteUptime - It’s one of the most reliable and easy to setup website monitoring service. I use it to monitor my other blog - BlogHash and found it be accurate and their email notification service is great! Their free plan monitors one website of your choice with 30/60 minutes monitoring interval and notifies via email. The link to my public report is here.
• WebSitePulse - Offers “triple stage” monitoring, Performance website monitoring simulating repeat user and full-page website monitoring, simulating first-time user experience and they have 16 monitoring stations across the world. Failure notifications can be received using SMS, phone, email, Instant messenger and other medias. If you are looking for a very advanced monitoring service, this is the one you should look for. The basic plans starts at $3 for a single monitor.
• AlertSite - It’s another advanced monitoring service that can not only monitor your website performance but also monitor the server resources such as CPU load, disk utilization and processes. Their transaction monitoring service is really good and has a lot of reputation in the market.
• WatchMouse - Another good website monitoring service that monitors the uptime of your website, services on various ports and provides notification upon failures. They also offer details reporting and statistics concerning your website. Their plans offer monitoring for 1 to 30 servers at 5 minutes interval.
• DOT-COM monitor - Like other companies, they too offer website monitoring, network monitoring, transaction monitoring and also load testing for your website from 10 monitoring stations. They also offer port monitoring for various services and notifications service via phone, cell and email.
• WEBMETRICS - Features hosted monitoring services such as load testing, intranet monitoring, website performance monitoring and also offer professional services to deliver customized monitoring solutions.
• Alertra - Well known website monitoring service offering features similar to others but also offers a security vulnerability scanner. They have a do not disturb feature which when activated will not notify the contacts during a certain period of time and one can also suspend monitoring during scheduled maintenance window to avoid receiving false alarms.
• HYPERSPIN - It’s one of the most widely used website monitoring services. Their features are Multi-Protocol Support, 10 monitoring locations to monitor your websites and applications, false alarm elimination, send automatic emails to your hosting provider to have your server rebooted, Maintenance Scheduling and Transaction Monitoring.

Believe it or not! Proactive monitoring can save your business from disasters by giving you an opportunity to pro actively fix the problems before they cause further damage. What are you waiting for, start monitoring your website today!

Do you use any other monitoring service that you want to share with our readers? Please post them in comments and we will add them to the list on this page.

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