Website Down? How do you know? NetWhistle!

[Tom]

Neat free service that will send you an email if your website goes down.[nbsp][nbsp]For 5 bucks/mo, they'll monitor much more frequently and even call a pager should your router not respond.

http://www.netwhistle.com/

[Deb]

Another one that is fairly nice and keeps a graphical stat of your site is at http://www.webpartner.com

[Jacob Stetser]

Tip-

If they email you when your site goes down, you probably want them to email an account that's NOT on your site's machine ;)

Otherwise you may not know until after the storm is over :)
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[Deb]

Another tip :)

Since there are more than one free services available.. use as many as you can... I've got a few of them running on various sites and it has happened a few times where one will report downtime while the other says all is fine... (ergo a line between here and the monitor was having problems).[nbsp][nbsp]Having more than one helps to decipher against false alarms and real downtime...[nbsp][nbsp]If it emails you.. head over to your site first and check it out... also try heading to domainwatch.com and running a trace route... of course you could also head over to the forums and see if it's been reported already too ;)

Deb
I have some more things you can use to help you monitor listed at http://hosthelp.com/techtools.php