There are cases when users need to monitor not just one page, but a sequence of actions to make sure the whole application is working. For example do a login and then check the page after login, or add product to the shopping card and check shopping card etc. monitor.us doesn’t do such transactional testing [...]

Many Hosting providers guarantee 99% or 95% uptime. How much is that? If it’s up…   It’s down… per year 90%   876 hours 95%   438 hours 99%   87 hours, 36 minutes 99.9%   8 hours, 45 minutes, 36 seconds 99.99%   52 minutes, 33.6 seconds 99.999%   5 minutes, 15.36 seconds 99.9999% [...]

Some hosting companies provide network monitoring. Although there are critical differences between the provider’s internal monitoring and external network monitoring service like monitor.us. First, internal monitoring checks if the server and/or certain processes are up. Providers don’t check if a specific URL is available. So they can check that web server is up, but they [...]

The basic services will remain free and we will monetize it partially by using online advertisements. In next releases we will introduce advanced premium features, for which we will start charging – but only for the additional services.

Internal monitoring may tell you that a server is down inside your network or even that the outbound connection is having problems. But internal monitoring may not inform you that your web site is not available to the external user. monitor.us provides monitoring tests from the external (outside of the firewall), or user perspective.  Many factors [...]

Multiple monitoring servers run your tests at specific intervals 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year to insure that your customers and users can reach your website. If monitor.us detects a failure, an email alert is sent to you. When your website is active again, you are notified as well. [...]