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Website Monitoring Service

Looking for a website monitoring service that can offer the following features:

5 minute intervals
SMS Alerts (Cellphone, pager)
Multiple Alert Contacts

Anyone using one that they would recommend? TIA.

Anon-y-mous Cow-ard
Tuesday, May 18, 2004

We use AlertSite, with all those features, and it works very well. No complaints.

Brad Wilson (dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com)
Tuesday, May 18, 2004

nagios

christopher baus (www.baus.net)
Tuesday, May 18, 2004

I use yo mama

.
Tuesday, May 18, 2004

I second Nagios.  Pretty easy to set up services to watch, hosts, etc.

You can do a lot of cool stuff with it above and beyond the stuff you mentioned, like monitor databases via scripts.

Aaron F Stanton
Tuesday, May 18, 2004

You might want to try creating the service yourself (probably not worth it until you really care). Basically you just need to be able to send email.

Li-fan Chen
Wednesday, May 19, 2004

We use www.siteconfidence.com here - they do everything you're asking for as well as other useful bits and pieces like page component download time analysis to help you optimise page loading. I've no idea what their service costs, but I can vouch for the quality of the service. We are a well-known (at least in the UK) brand with a fairly high-profile site, and web services syndicated to even higher profile partners with 24x7 on call support, and SiteConfidence have really helped us to maintain our service availability, as well as optimise our page downloads and monitor competitor sites.

Mark B
Wednesday, May 19, 2004

If you are looking for a super duper top of the line service then empirix's onesight may be an option.  They have a free trial.

http://www.empirix.com/Empirix/Web+Test+Monitoring/Monitoring+Solutions/

K
Wednesday, May 19, 2004

We use Global Web Monitor's Global Up Time monitoring Service. More monitoring frequencies than anyone easy to lower monthly monitoring charges. They also have a new port security check which has worked well for us.  www.globalwebmonitor.com/global_up_time.htm  or
www.globalwebmonitor.com  for their other services

D train
Friday, June 18, 2004

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