Starting your own website you will spend a lot of time getting the best CMS software, best possible hosting solution which won’t make you broke and installing as many plugins as you can think of. But a week or two into the project you will realize you can’t visit your own website 24hours every day. So how do you make sure your site is up? You use FreeSiteStatus.

FreeSiteStatus is a free service which monitors your site and emails you reports every week about downtime experienced by your site in the previous week. For example every Monday morning I receive a short email from FreeSiteStatus telling me the stats for my site.

From: Dec 03 2007 12:00 AM (US/Eastern)
To: Dec 10 2007 12:00 AM (US/Eastern)

1. TeqEdge
- uptime: 100.000%
- downtime: 00min
- outage: 0

This service also provides a monthly report which looks very similar.

From: Nov 01 2007 12:00 AM (US/Eastern)
To: Dec 01 2007 12:00 AM (US/Eastern)

1. TeqEdge
- uptime: 99.861%
- downtime: 01hr 00min
- outage: 1

That’s not all. You might want to have more control than the free service provides. For as little as $2 per month FreeSiteStatus will monitor your website every 15 minutes. I have not upgraded yet but I am very impressed with their service so far. Their reporting has been correct and on time. Check out their full list of features and their free vs paid monitoring benefits.

This is not a paid review. I use this service and find it beneficial. This service is bound to give you some peace of mind that someone else is monitoring your site and will notify you if it goes down.

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