Comments on: Ways to check if a website is really down

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:37:03 +0000

Great site. I got here through google when I was googling to check if my website was down.

I came across http://www.checksite.us. It’s the similiar to downforeveryoneorjustme.com, except it kept checking every 30 minutes for me and then sent me an email.

iPower is my host which had a massive datacenter failure the other day.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:48:27 +0000

I tend to use http://www.ismywebsiteonline.com
This is a simple – and free! service, where you get an email immediately if your site is down, they check from 12 or so locations across the globe. For a little extra they can also send you an sms, which is even better when you’re on the road

By: amdou

amdou — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:11:34 +0000

i liked this one, plain and simple…

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com

By: loki

loki — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:20:24 +0000

simple tool to check if a url is up or down from the address bar: queryurl.com/urltotest.com

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:27:26 +0000

It really depends on the website that you run. A webmaster who makes $100 an hours from his website would lose $50 (plus visitors, perception etc) if the website would go down and a script would notify him 30 minutes later.

By: Egyptian Papyrus

Egyptian Papyrus — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:49:48 +0000

I really just use a service to check my site every 30 minutes and It’s free…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:13:22 +0000

Another free and easy to use method to check if a website is up: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9689

Also capable of doing extra functions such as IP lookups, reverse lookups, etc.

By: Fazirul

Fazirul — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:40:12 +0000

FREE text based website check very fast, see this link http://www.mywebkpi.com/cgi-bin/start-cgi
Personally using this to check 50 websites thats under my company’s care for the past year. Works well for me.

By: Yonatan

Yonatan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:13:13 +0000

A handy firefox extension for this is ErrorZilla Mod: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3336

By: OldSailor

OldSailor — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:30:54 +0000

Very useful tip as everyone faces this problem of website down.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:38:02 +0000

My go-to site for checking whether a site is up is….

…. the W3C HTML validator: validator.w3.org

By: Moose

Moose — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:30:01 +0000

One of my favourite tools for this is the netmonitor website – they have a tool called SiteUp, which combines ping, DNS, traceroute and an actual attempt to get pages from a site for you…

e.g http://www.netmonitor.org/tools/siteupresults.php?site=www.ghacks.net