If you are using paid web hosting services, having your site uptime to the maximum is a must. Most of the web hosting companies claimed that they can provide a 99.9% guaranteed uptime. While most of them are trying to provide the best uptime your their customers, there are some web hosting companies that failed to provide the guaranteed uptime to their customers. Here are some external free services that you can use to monitor your site’s server network uptime.

1. basicstate.com

You will be alerted immediately by email or sms text message (if your telco support sms message via email) if your site ever becomes unavailable for any reason including network outages, server outages, server overload, dns configuration, or ssl certificate problems. The minimum monitoring interval is 15 minutes per check for free service. Basicstate.com also provides you daily e-mail report, and a nice uptime statistic graph. However, there are no public report, and no uptime button that you can put on your site.

Daily e-mail report

Graph report

2. Host-Tracker

The free service will allows you to monitor your site’s server with a minimum interval of 30 minutes per check. You can monitor up to 2 domains. Weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly e-mail report is available. Host-Tracker also offers the uptime button which you can put on your site. You will be notified via e-mail if your site’s server failed to respond. Upon registration, you will get a 30 days trial of its premium services, which allows you to monitor your site’s server uptime in 1 minute interval, and have daily report to be sent to your e-mail.

Public report

3. SiteUptime

SiteUptime free uptime monitoring service will give you the ability to monitor 1 domain, 30 minutes of monitoring interval, uptime monitoring from 4 locations, monthly e-mail reports, public statistics and uptime button. You will be alerted via e-mail if your site’s server failed to respond.

Public report

4. Uptrends

No registration is needed. Just enter your site URL, and you will be given the code of uptime button to be put on your site. Your site will be monitored in 30 minutes interval. No e-mail notification is available when your site’s server is failed to respond.

5. Hyperspin

Your site’s server will be monitored in an hour interval with Hyperspin free service. Public report, daily, weekly and monthly e-mail reports is available.

Public report

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