Free Server Uptime Monitoring System

How do you monitor how many times and for what duration a server is having downtime. After all you cannot keep checking the server uptime yourself every minute accurately.

Uptime is a free server uptime monitoring system, provided by OpenACS. OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. It helps you find if your cheap domain name hosted on that cheap web hosting service is having good uptime. Many good web hosts promise a 99% uptime or better.

See how Uptime works?

“Uptime periodically requests a page from your server. If the site is unreachable, Uptime sends you email. Uptime will continue checking your site. When it becomes reachable again, Uptime will send you one more message.

If you wish to be beeped by Uptime, then you need only subscribe to a beeper service that has an email gateway. You can give Uptime a custom subject line or message body if your beeping service needs a specially formatted message.”

The average user’s server gets queried every 15 minutes, but you can upgrade to shorter time intervals. Add a Url to Monitor and get emails when your server goes down and when it comes back up. See a list of URLs monitored by Uptime. So monitor server uptimes and see if your web hosting service is good enough.