iWeb Communities: Blog

For the iWeb blog, we just launched a brand-new tool to let you see easily what is the current status of iWeb systems. This is meant to be a reference whenever you experience technical problems and wonder if it’s a problem with iWeb, or a problem with your server, or the software you use.

If you experience frequent server problems, or if you manage a business-critical website, you might need tools to monitor the current status of your server and/or your website, giving you handy features such as automated email or SMS alerts whenever the website is down. Other tools can also give daily and weekly statistics on downtime.

As an introduction, here are 3 tools that you can use to monitor the health and uptime of your website(s):

1. Montastic is a very simple tool: you just provide your email address and the URL you would like to track, and voilà, it’s done. Website status will then be checked every 10 minutes, and there’s also a RSS feature
2. mon.itor.us is an even more powerful service. There’s of course automated email alerts, but they also provide tools to enable reporting of site response times, outages, as well as resource utilization and tracking of site visitors.
3. site24×7 is a service provided by zoho. There is a free basic service, limited to 2 websites. However, it has more features than Montastic or mon.itor.us; with daily and weekly statistics and graphs

Apart from system status, these tools can also give you precious cues on your website’s performance. site24×7 provides for instance the average time response: the lower it is, the more likely people will stay and use your website

Udpate from comments: Have also a look at freesitestatus, which has a free plan, as well as a professional plan.