Monitoring website downtimes is virtually impossible for a individual. There are lots of paid variations which allows you to monitor your websites for downtimes, few of these are worthwhile to use but eventually you have to pay a price.

I have been using Montastic for more than a year and it does the job right and send me email alerts whenever my sites have a downtime. And all this for FREE.

Montastic allows you to monitor 100 websites and also provides you with a RSS feed to catch up with downtimes in your favorite feed reader.

Many people may think why should we bother about downtimes? Here is a little insight into that.

Why Monitor Downtimes?

It does not matter which hosting service you use, there are bound to be downtimes. As a human it is impossible to monitor your site 24×7 to see if it is up and running. In such cases it is very feasible to use automated website monitoring tools to monitor your website for downtimes.

As the automated website monitoring tools alert you that your site is having a downtime, you can quickly and easily check if your site is having a downtime and contact the customer support of your hosting provider to see what is wrong and fix the downtimes.

Why Bother With Downtimes?

Keeping your website up and running 24×7 is almost not possible, though many hosting providers guarantee you 99.9% uptime it is really impossible to achieve. You may lose revenue and readers due to frequent downtimes and may never know about it since you cannot monitor your site all the time. Having a automated system monitor your websites will allow you to gauge the number of downtimes you are having on your current host.

If you have frequent downtimes you can even make a decision to switch to another host.

More About Montastic

Montastic is a free to use website monitoring tool that allows you to monitor your website for downtimes. You receive email alerts whenever your website is not accessible. The service checks your website every 10 minutes or so to check if it is accessible. You also get email alerts when the site is back up and running.

Montastic also provides you with RSS feeds for each account so that you can monitor downtimes using your feed reader. They provide you with a generous 100 websites that can be monitored for free.

It Is Free So Is It Reliable?

Montastic is created and maintained by enthusiastic Open Source Developers and I being a Open Source Developer can tell you that it is reliable, not everything that is free is unreliable. I have been using this service for more than a year and haven’t found any issues with it. I have been always emailed whenever my site is down.

So if you want to start monitoring your website for free signup now with Montastic.