Monitor Your Website for Free With Mon.itor.us

If you do business online via a website, you want to make sure that site is up, accessible, and fast at all times. You need a 3rd party Web monitoring service.

Mon.itor.us is a service that checks a website every few minutes to make sure it is accessible. The service provides graphs of uptime and response times. Because mon.itor.us is supported by advertising, the service is FREE for website publishers like you and me. There is a fee for premium services like SMS text message alerts.

If you're currently not using a 3rd party service to monitor your website, and are not ready to expand your IT budget just yet, mon.itor.us is a good starter service to get your feet wet.

When you're ready for mission critical monitoring and alerting, check out my list of monitoring services -- ranging from free to enterprise pricing (ie., expensive) -- that make sure your website is always available and speedy.