What plugin do you use to monitor if your site is down ?

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About 5 years ago, I works on a website that needed Jetpack.
One of the very few nice things about Jetpack is that it offered functionality where I would be emailed any time the site would go down.

Today, I find myself, needing such functionality, but there is no way in the world, I will install Jetpack and just for this functionality.

I am not a fan of Jetpack and I am not a fan of its owners to put it lightly.

At the time, the website was hosted on BLUEHOST, and it was eye opening at the number of times the site would go down. I mean not just how many times it would go down but for the duration as well.
Since then, I have never used that provider again, but now I need similar functionality that will not weight down too heavily on performance.

What recommendations do you have ?

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12 Comments

  1. I know this isn’t exactly an answer to your question, but honestly, if you have a reliable host, you really don’t need to worry about downtime.

    This might be unsolicited advice, but I’d suggest looking for a good hosting provider 🙂

  2. Not sure about a plugin, but there are a lot of options out there. Downdetector, Downtime Monkey (I think you can monitor 5 sites free), Jetpack, Pingdom, etc. Storrox is right, with solid hosting and maybe Cloudflare, you shouldn’t have to worry about it. Although, there are other reasons websites go down other than the host, so these services can monitor for that too.

  4. We use Uptimerobot at our agency, you can have 50 monitors for free and pretty easy to set up.

  7. The reason why I ask, is because this site is Mission Critical and they are PAYING ME VERY WELL. I don’t want to be a position, where they are the ones contacting me in the event of the site going down.
    Yes I am using a Top Hosting Provider, but there are so so many reasons why a site goes down. Especially outside the United States, where so many things can knock the site down.
    I need to be on top of it and the thing is, this site is in a time zone that is 8 hours ahead of where I am in the us. I need to be on top of it.

 

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