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By Downtime Monkey
The comparison for 2021 has been completed. You can skip straight to the results for 2021, view the results for 2020 & 2019, or read on to see how we ranked the sites... We compared every available website monitoring service by price.
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By Downtime Monkey
Downtime Monkey now logs more than 4 million website responses each day. We analysed these to see how fast websites respond in practice. View the full results below or skip to the sound bites.
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By Downtime Monkey
The stats overview page that we launched in June was very well received. We have followed up on this and developed a similar idea for downtime logs. This went live on Friday and shows downtime records for all your monitors in one place.
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By Downtime Monkey
We've made a useful improvement to Downtime Monkey alerts. Each downtime alert now includes a timestamp that shows the time that the website went down and each uptime alert includes a timestamp that shows the time that the website came back up. This turned out to be more work than expected, largely because we thought we'd knock it out in under an hour :) Although it wasn't totally straightforward to develop, the end-result is incredibly simple to use...
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By Downtime Monkey
We've just rolled out another new feature: a 'Stats Overview' area where you can view a summary of the stats for all your monitors at a glance. There have been several requests for this feature from customers who want to view the most important stats for their websites in one place. Here are the details...
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By Downtime Monkey
23 May 2020 In early March we noticed an increase in the overall number of downtimes logged at Downtime Monkey. This was when COVID-19 related lockdowns were beginning in many countries so we decided to dig into the data to see if there was a correlation. Here are the results...
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By Downtime Monkey
It's been a strange few months here in Edinburgh. Thankfully Downtime Monkey has been largely unaffected by the lockdown, quietly continuing to monitor websites while the world shuts down. Coding from home has been challenging with kids off school and nurseries closed. However, in the twilight zone silent hours after everyone has gone to bed we've been developing improvements and fixing bugs. Here are the details...
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By Downtime Monkey
As explained in the last post we've spent a few weeks working on small fixes and improvements, focusing on jobs that aren't urgent but shouldn't be overlooked. Here we'll look at how a few simple code changes greatly increased efficiency when serving pages on the Downtime Monkey website. These improvements focus on reducing the server's CPU load and memory use.
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By Downtime Monkey
January is a good time for bug-fixing and we've spent the last couple of weeks making small tweaks and improvements to Downtime Monkey. We've focused on the kind of bugs that aren't urgent but shouldn't be overlooked and aim to continue this for a couple more weeks before starting development of the next major feature. We'll document each change in its own post. First up is an improvement to the range of webpages available for monitoring: webpages with query strings can now be monitored...
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By Downtime Monkey
All good web hosts provide their customers with a Service Level Agreement (SLA). SLAs often include an uptime guarantee where the hosting provider agrees to compensate the customer if the specified uptime is not met. However, we've never known a host to voluntarily compensate their customers - in reality it's up to the customer to ask for compensation.
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By Downtime Monkey
Monitoring a website is easy with Downtime Monkey - this video shows you how to set up a new website monitor and receive email or sms alerts if your website goes down. It only takes a few seconds to get started monitoring and you get access to uptime stats too.
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Website downtime alerts and website monitoring worldwide. Downtime Monkey has some formidable features:
- Website Monitoring: Downtime Monkey monitors your webpages and checks whether they are up or down. Free account monitors are checked every 3 minutes and Pro accounts monitors are checked every minute.
- Multiple Monitors: Set up monitors in seconds - simply add the URL (web address) of the webpage and start monitoring. Free accounts enable monitoring of up to 60 webpages. Pro accounts enable monitoring of up to 1000 webpages.
- Email Alerts: If your website goes down an email is sent to alert you. Email alerts can be turned on or off individually for each monitor. With Free accounts all emails are sent to the email address of the account holder. Pro users can register multiple email addresses and select a different email address for each monitor.
- SMS Alerts: Text alerts are sent the instant your website goes down. SMS alerts are an optional extra for Free account users while Pro accounts include free SMS credits with annual subscriptions.
- Stats and Logs: Records of uptime and downtime are kept for every monitor and you can view statistics for each monitor. Free account users can view percentage uptime statistics for 90 days for each monitor. Pro account users can view stats for 2 years and can also access the record of every individual downtime occurrence.
- Bulk Import Websites: Pro users can import websites from a CSV file (i.e. a spreadsheet) or using a comma separated list enabling hundreds of monitors to be added in seconds.
If you need to monitor more than 1000 webpages Downtime Monkey can set up an Enterprise account which is tailored specifically to your organisation's needs.