For monitoring, Pingdom has a basic free account with uptime/response time monitoring and email notifications. If you host your nameservers and email (Google Ap

For monitoring, Pingdom has a basic free account with uptime/response time monitoring and email notifications. If you host your nameservers and email (Google Apps?) elsewhere, losing a web host isn't quite so bad. I also unfortunately just went through this with my personal VPS a few days ago, with Hazenet disappearing off the face of the planet.