BasicState - Simple and Free Website Uptime Monitor
May 5, 2008 – 11:00 pmDo you know how many times your blog / website had been down last month? Do you know the percentage of your website uptime for this month? As defined in Wikipedia, “uptime” is a measure of the time a computer system (e.g. your web hosting server) has been “up” and running while downtime means the opposite. If you can’t answer any of the questions above, BasicState.com is a simple website uptime monitor that you can utilize without even paying a single penny.
Once you have sign up and fill in the details, BasicState will continue to monitor your website(s) or blog(s) every 15 minutes. In case of any downtime caused by network outages, server outages, server overload, dns configuration, silly network admins etc., BasicState will alert you immediately by email or text message. Furthermore, once a downtime occurred, your site will be monitored in 1 minute intervals! If you have a web hosting provider that “sweeps everything under the carpet”, you can send them an email asking for explanations once you got the bad news (with proof!). Cool, isn’t it?
Things that BasicState.com can do for you:
- Send alerts in case any website downtime has occurred, via email or sms. Check out supported mobile carriers here.
- Answer this kind of questions for you: Is your dns, network or server are responds timely to user requests?
- Monitor one of more private websites / blogs in each separate monitoring setting.
- Monitor and get alerts of public websites that you use such as Paypal, Adsense, AdBrite, etc. Now you can complain to PayPal or your payment gateway for their downtime too!
- Monitor HTTP or HTTPS type of websites / blogs.
- Get a history of your site’s performance in the form of daily email.
- A graphical view of your website’s uptime and downtime historical data, average website response time and total response time.
- Send failure / downtime alerts to more than 1 people - useful if you have more than one webmasters that manage a site.
- Configure downtime alert trigger delay and repeat frequencies - this way; you don’t have to deal with a huge amount of unnecessary email alerts.
- Support for monitoring load balanced webservers with some simple tweaks to your DNS.
Still not convinced to use BasicState as your website uptime monitor? FYI, BasicState are used by some of the biggest companies in the world such as WalMart, HP, Toyota etc. You don’t have anything to lose, except downtime!
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12 Responses to “BasicState - Simple and Free Website Uptime Monitor”
Currently I’m using Pingdom to monitor my blog. will try this one.
By Nirmal on May 6, 2008
I’m currently using Site Uptime Monitor…I really need to change hosts soon…too many outages lately…Nirmal have you seen this issue too since you’re on Bluehost? Going down has a big impact on how much traffic your site gets that is for sure!!!
By Aseem Kishore on May 6, 2008
I’m using Host-Tracker to track the uptime of my site. I’ll give this one a try too.
By Haris on May 7, 2008
@Nirmal, Aseem, Haris: Thanks for the suggestions. Both service looks awesome!
By Syahid A. on May 7, 2008
Till now I used Internet Seer, its not so good, I will tryout this one ….
By Pavan Kumar on May 7, 2008
I don’t monitor my server at all. As long as it is up when I check my website, it is ok. lol…
By CypherHackz on May 7, 2008
@CypherHackz,
It does not mean that your site is uptime all the time. I think you should use atleast one free tool.
By Nirmal on May 7, 2008
I have tried Pingdom, will try this
By Madhur Kapoor on May 10, 2008
@Madhur: Never tried that one before, but this one will always be FREE.
By Syahid A. on May 10, 2008
Thank you for you coverage of basicstate.com
Your how-to article is so much simpler than what appears on the site.
It seems however that one of your readers has also decided to copy the basicstate.com sms gateway reference page and claim it as his own work. And, he has used a trackback(posted May 12,2008)to post a link to it on the site at techpavan(pavan kumar).
We know it is the same page because the original and the copy include additional gateway addresses which are not real. This does not affect legitimate users because the carrier named does not exist, and so no users will be using those addresses.
By spenser on May 29, 2008
@spenser: It is OK, he is a friend of mine. I think it is a completely different cover of Basicstate.
By Syahid A. on May 29, 2008