5 Free Websites to Keep Track On Your Website Uptime

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Being a blogger it becomes really important to know when a website goes down because whenever a site disappears just like that there is nothing much you can do really. But at least you can keep tabs on whether or not a site is online. With the following five services, you will easily be able to do so:

1. WasItUp

With this great online site, you can ask to be emailed at an account you specify if a certain site goes down.

For the more technical reader, here is how WasItUp functions: WasItUp performs a HTTP HEAD request and checks that the status code is 200 OK. If you provided a text to match, the site performs a GET request, checks that the status code is 200 OK, and check that the text is present/not present in the returned HTTP body.

Yes, that means you can also check sites for specific words and be notified if the words no longer exist on the site.

WasItUp checks your sites every five minutes and lets you add up to 10 sites to monitor.

2. WhenDOUP

WhenDOUP performs a similar function and sends you an email if the site you specify goes down. And additional feature of WhenDOUP is that if that site that went offline comes back online, you can choose to be notified.

WhenDOUP checks the site’s status about every fifteen minutes.

3. AreMySitesUp

AreMySiteUp offers two plans: paid and free.

People using the service for free can choose to be notified by email or SMS text messages if a site goes down. The site checks up to five sites in the free plan; the checks are performed twenty-five times a day.

The paid plan includes the keyword inclusion check (which WasItUp offers for free). In the paid plan a user can add up to a hundred sites and have them checked at fifteen minute intervals. In addition to being notified via email and SMS text messages, paid users also get Twitter integration and RSS feeds.

4. MrUptime

This tool is primarily a Firefox add-on that keeps on trying to reach the site in the background, while you continue browsing other sites. Of course this can lead to bandwidth being unjustly consumed however MrUptime can come greatly in handy when a certain site is not currently loading well and needs to be refreshed constantly. At the cost of a little bandwidth, you are able to instantly know if your site is down or back up.

5. Basic State

This website offers great services completely free of charge. It lets the user add unlimited sites, checks them on fifteen minute intervals, and shows a daily uptime report that goes back fourteen days. Basic State will suit most users looking for a site-checking service.

Try all the five services out and settle on the one best for you. No more will you have to unpleasantly surprised about a site going to down.

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