After discovering my server had gone down I started to wonder about monitoring software, at my day job we pay £580 per url to be monitored but the seemed RATHER STEEP to me. After a little digging on the web I came across Montastic It is a free service that monitors your sites for you. It is open source and so far I am very impressed, stick in a list of the urls you want monitoring, download a widget, and away you go. It has both Dashboard widgets for the mac or yahoo widgets for windows or a desktop app. It also has an rss feed for showing system downtimes and an email gets fired off when a site goes down.
This seems like a great tool, I will look into setting up an automatic forward to the support team if a site goes down to minimise downtime. With tools like this available for free enterprise class development and website hosting is becoming better and cheaper.
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