When you start an business online and your ecommerce business depends on the ability of your web visitors to access your content without obstacles, become crucial to monitor the performance of your web server.
If you want to know when your web server “goes down” or be alerted anytime there are some serious performance issues with it, this guide I have reviewed and compared the best free web server monitoring services available online.
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Free Web Server Monitoring Tools
Pingdom- This free web server monitoring tool allows you to check: HTTP / HTTPS / TCP port / Ping / DNS / UDP / SMTP / POP3 and IMAP. Also, they send you emails and 20 SMS that alert you when your web server goes down.
If you register for a premium account($9.95), you are able to check up to five web servers with 1-minute monitoring intervals. Also, you can get detailed reports about the status of your web server and purchase more SMS alerts.
Source: www.pingdom.com
HostTracker – Is a free web server monitoring tool that allow you to check up to two web servers every 1/5/15/30/60 minutes. They support HEAD / POST / GET HTTP-methods as well as operations on CGI scripts. Through their homepage you can check whether a website is up or down by sending a ping request to a specific URL.
Once register to the premium($4.99/month) plan you can either check up to five servers and the possibility to know the status of your web servers by your e-mail address and your cell-phone via SMS.
Source: www.host-tracker.com
Mon.itor.us – Mon.itor.us offers free accounts to utilize to check HTTP / HTTPS / FTP web sites, Pings, IMAP mail servers, TCP ports, DNS, POP3, UDP, as well. You can get a notify via e-mail, RSS IM or through a widget installed on your Mac or PC, If your web server goes down. Also, from the same control panel where you monitor your web server performances, you can also track your visitors in real-time from multiple locations.
Source: www.mon.itor.us
Free Network Monitor – Is a Windows software(no registration is required) that monitor you web server in real-time. In particular it monitor PING / HTTP / SMTP / POP3 and FTP.
While you can initially utilizes 10 sensors to monitor, you can extend the range of monitoring sensors from 10 to 20. All you have to do is to placing a link back to Paessler on your web site.
First level of premium account unlocks up to 100 monitoring sensors, detailed reports and advanced features to control web server uptime and downtime for $195.
Source: www.paessler.com
