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Вe the first to know when your website is down!

Round-the-clock website monitoring is very important for maintaining a website. Sometimes even a seemingly insignificant problem with the website stability or accessibility can cause a lot of troubles. If you are a website owner or webmaster, these issues will become your own pain below the back. Therefore, 24/7 monitoring of your site lets your customers use it without any problems.

There are a huge number of tools available to help webmasters with website monitoring issues. But all this variety of checks and tests will help webmasters to react only to a certain number of problems if necessary, because they are executed mostly manually. For such cases an automated service, like, HostTracker might be useful. This service will give you access to a wide range of different versatile tools that a webmaster might need. And all of these tools will be fully automated and easily customizable even for novices.

Main features

In general, HostTracker is a web toolkit for fully automated monitoring. It includes a huge number of services that every website owner might need to monitor any website from all available points of view. This toolkit includes a worldwide access points network and lot of various useful services:

-Uptime monitoring.
-HTTP, ICMP, SMTP, SNMP, TCP and other Internet protocols accessibility checking.
-Certificate and domain verifications.
-Webpage loading and content access speed testing.
-Blacklist checking.
-Website content and database integrity checking.
-Server hardware monitoring.
-Statistics gathering.
– Configurable instant notifications via SMS, voice call, Hangouts, Skype, Telegram, Slack, Messenger.

By signing up you will get a free 30-day trial, and then you can try how to add and configure automatic monitoring of your website. You can instantly create some monitoring tasks for your website(s) and set up preferred notification methods for alerts about issues to come through, if any.

How to use?

To start monitoring your website or websites using this platform, you need to sign up, click the “Add Check” button, and select one of the checks from a drop-down list, thus going to the configuration screen. For a website, most likely you’ll need HTTP or PageSpeed check as the main tool (more checks could be used for advanced checking scenarios). On the task creation page, you will find two configuration routines, each with its own customizable parameters: “Basic”, which is designed for beginner webmasters and for fast set up, and “Advanced”, which has much more options and can be used to make HostTracker check a lot of page parameters behind the basic availability.

How to configure instant notifications system?

To enable instant alerts click the “Add Contact” button, select one of the messengers available for integration as your contact, and match this contact with the site you wish to receive the notifications about.

Free your time for real life, let HostTracker keep an eye on your sites for you!

Bogdan

Bogdan is the founder of Top Design Magazine. You can find him in Bucharest-Romania so next time you want to drink a beer there and talk about web and stuff, give him a message.