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I have zero affiliation with the group, apart from being a casual user but http://wasitup.com/ http://wasitup.com/ has come in handy for me quite often. Even fo

by theDoug 16y ago

I have zero affiliation with the group, apart from being a casual user but http://wasitup.com/ http://wasitup.com/ has come in handy for me quite often. Even for free, it'll do a check 20 times an hour.

jackowayed 16y ago
Pingdom also has a very good free plan. It's limited to one url, but for that URL, it's just as good as their paid plans. So you get checks from a ton of DC's, and it tracks response time as well as uptime.
- akl 16y ago
  It hasn't been well publicized after the original announcement (and isn't prominently placed on their plans page, either) but I've had great success with Cloudkick's free developer plan on my personal virt (which is still down..): https://www.cloudkick.com/accounts/signup/developer/ https://www.cloudkick.com/accounts/signup/developer/ CK sent me a text message as soon as my host went down earlier, which gave me time to file the ticket against Linode. Only caveat - they don't provide a signed RPM, which can cause some administrative hardship for linux users using rpm-based distributions (most of the yum operations require you to add an extra cli option to allow working with unsigned rpm's), but it's a minor complaint given that their agent isn't mandatory and doesn't need a lot of updates.
archon810 16y ago
Another vote for wasitup.com. I use wasitup.com, host-tracker.com, and basicstate.com, and wasitup.com is consistently the first one to report an outage, followed by basicstate, which has a surprisingly gloomy and odd interface, yet good service, and then followed by host-tracker.com, which sucks pretty much on all levels. All are free btw.
uggedal 16y ago
Just keep in mind that I host http://wasitup.com http://wasitup.com in Linode's London facilities. Data center redundancy has been on my TODO list for some time now.

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I have zero affiliation with the group, apart from being a casual user but http://wasitup.com/ http://wasitup.com/ has come in handy for me quite often. Even fo

by theDoug 16y ago

jackowayed 16y ago
Pingdom also has a very good free plan. It's limited to one url, but for that URL, it's just as good as their paid plans. So you get checks from a ton of DC's, and it tracks response time as well as uptime.
- akl 16y ago
  It hasn't been well publicized after the original announcement (and isn't prominently placed on their plans page, either) but I've had great success with Cloudkick's free developer plan on my personal virt (which is still down..): https://www.cloudkick.com/accounts/signup/developer/ https://www.cloudkick.com/accounts/signup/developer/ CK sent me a text message as soon as my host went down earlier, which gave me time to file the ticket against Linode. Only caveat - they don't provide a signed RPM, which can cause some administrative hardship for linux users using rpm-based distributions (most of the yum operations require you to add an extra cli option to allow working with unsigned rpm's), but it's a minor complaint given that their agent isn't mandatory and doesn't need a lot of updates.
archon810 16y ago
Another vote for wasitup.com. I use wasitup.com, host-tracker.com, and basicstate.com, and wasitup.com is consistently the first one to report an outage, followed by basicstate, which has a surprisingly gloomy and odd interface, yet good service, and then followed by host-tracker.com, which sucks pretty much on all levels. All are free btw.
uggedal 16y ago
Just keep in mind that I host http://wasitup.com http://wasitup.com in Linode's London facilities. Data center redundancy has been on my TODO list for some time now.