Free web server monitor service.

Being a blogger you develop contents for your users. It takes lot of time to publish your work on your blogging website and what if all your hard work goes in vein if your website go offline without your knowledge? it means you loose your visitors, search engine ranking and lastly, the most importantly, the objectives of sharing content are left unfulfilled. or server

Basically, server downtime is the main concern of every website owner or webmaster because it impacts negatively on overall performance of the website. Please keep in mind that we are talking about the paid web hosting service and their promises made to you at the time of purchasing their subscription but their servers do not perform as good as mentioned on their website.

well, its a good habit to consider the professional advice or to research on the Internet regarding the good web hosting service providers before finalizing the web space provider. It is almost 4 months from now, we are using Hostgator as our web host and believe me its the best one so far. We have never faced any problem with their web service till now. Click here to visit hostgator.

Coming back to the topic, so we have a solution that really works for us and hopefully for you as
well in future.

Uptimerobot.com is service that provides you a method to monitor your server downtime and its enables you to get the message/alert if your website or server is down through preferred way(s) decided by you while signing up for their service(s). Uptimerobot checks a website or server in every 5 minutes. It allows a user to monitor up to 50 websites.

Various alert/notification methods are offered to the users and they are:

1. Email
2. SMS/Text (Short Messaging Service)
3. RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
4. Twitter
5. Push Notification For IPhone, IPad

What other features it offers are listed below:

Website can be monitored in two ways

1. HTTP(s)
2. Keyword monitoring

Network monitoring

1. Ping
2. TCP Ports

Uptimerobot is completely based on AJAX technology and saves lot of time of users with their friendly yet fast interface.

We recommend uptimerobot.com to every webmaster or website owner to give it a try. For sign up, Click here.

Lets start step by step guide to explain you the procedure that is required to join uptimerobot.

Step 1: Signup for an account is a must, do not worry that will take seconds.

Very easy signup process as we can see in the thumbnail that only four easy and common steps have been asked. After signing for the an account confirm your identity through the link that is e-mailed to you and remember to use a right and a working email address.

Step 2: Add your website or server address to receive updates

i. click Add New and select the option shown in the screenshot below

ii. Now, fill in the details accordingly, give a website a friendly name like “My Blog” or whatever you like and secondly give a proper website link or URL for example “http://www.passion2write.com” and click “Add”

iii. If you website requires authentication then you need to click “Additional Settings”

At this point, if you followed correctly, then congratulation, you have added your website successfully. After few seconds the the bar will become green and statistics can be checked. Refer the screenshot below to get the proper idea:

So, if done correctly till this point, it means your website is now under monitor, but please bear in mind there is a last and most important step is left which will enable you to get notification if your website or server goes down. Lets configure that feature.

Step 1. Navigate to “My Settings” tab in the right top corner of the page.

Step 2. Select the “E-mail” option if you want to receive Alerts through mail or “SMS” if you want to be notified it through a text message on a cellphone or through “Twitter” or through a Push notification if you own Apple IPhone or Apple I-Pad.

i. Email:

ii. SMS

iii. Twitter

Note: I don’t recommend his method because your twitter account will notify to you and to your subscriber too which might impact negatively.

iv. IOS (For Apple Iphone or IPAD)

After activating the above step(s), you are ready to get updates about your website or sever if they go offline. There are other features for you to try out. Lastly, you can opt for multiple methods to receive notifications, its up to you what do u like.

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