moomerman

Thanks for the detailed response. It is useful to hear real-life requirements and I'll bear this in mind when thinking about pricing options. I must admit though the number of options on site24x7 is a bit off-putting to me, I was thinking about much easier 'packages'

Thanks for the great feedback, it's always good to hear! I'll add DNS monitoring to the list.

Yeah, nimbu.net does do what you're asking for and it will always be free for one site. You will get notifications by email and/or SMS and/or twitter within minutes of your site going down. The SMS option won't always be free, but you can send via Twitter and then get Twitter to SMS you for a free option.

Edit: I just re-read about having lots of little sites. I will consider a reduced-functionality (eg. as you say within the hour notification) but allowing more free sites as an option.

I'm working on http://nimbu.net/ at the moment that does what you're looking for. I've just added twitter alerts too if you use twitter. If you've got anything specific you would want to monitor then please let me know.

Thanks for your comments. I am working on the payment system now, I decided to launch the product early and gather some feedback while I'm doing that though. At the moment you can only monitor up to three sites.

The content validation idea is very good thanks.

Thanks for the comment. There is no installation required so I'm not sure what you mean. You can try the site functionality for free so that would work as a demo. If you mean you don't want to sign up, then would a screencast work in that situation?

Thanks for the comments, I will fix the bugs asap. On the redirect issue, do you think that receiving a redirect on a url you are monitoring should result in success? I hadn't thought about that before, maybe it should be an advanced option, eg. do you expect a 200 OK or (dropdown list of other responses).

That is a very interesting use case. I was thinking about allowing users to create scriptable tests and then provide reporting around that, I think it could meet your requirements. I will add the basic authentication stuff.

You can remove a site by clicking the detail link (the link from the dashboard) and then there is a delete link in the top right hand corner. I will work on making this more obvious.

Cool - I will make it clearer. I actually have the server-side monitoring in development, but I'm trying to focus on this one product for now.

Thanks, will do. The servers are currently in Florida, California and London. I will be adding more soon hopefully. I will create a Help/Info section detailing where the servers are and more details about how often they poll/what their user agent is etc.. You can see all the servers on a map in the website detail page if you have a website setup.

You're absolutely correct. I 'borrowed' the t&c's from somewhere else and I would never enforce this. In fact the testimonials I have on the homepage I have written to the individuals in question to ask for their permission. Am removing!

This is a competitive product I guess. I have used pingdom for years and most of the development of this product has been to satisfy me as a developer and what I want out of a monitoring product. I always found the interface of pingdom to be cluttered and clunky and the information I really wanted was always lots of clicks away. I admit though that the good things about pingdom I have tried to incorporate into this product.

The unique aspect of this product is the individual analysis of data and suggestions/alerts before your site goes down. It will warn you if things suddenly change on your site, something that I don't think any other sites do.

Will definitely add a features list then, I was thinking I was already overloading the user a bit on the homepage but having a separate link to a detailed features section means those that want more information can get it.

I've changed the link to just Signup for now as the pricing isn't an issue

Thanks, I take your point about the pricing, will separate them for now.

My aim is to provide more data analysis than other monitoring sites and give you feedback on the performance of your web application.

It has been interesting reading the recent getting users thread [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=902322] as I've been trying a lot of the methods on there to gain some traction, so far without much success. Any other tips?

Hey, we both seem to have the same values in simplicity as I've just launched an alpha of http://nimbu.net/ (dead simple website monitoring) - I like your easy signup process

I have a project I've been working on for a while, it's in public beta and should fit your requirements as is. http://pingy.moocode.com/

We've been using dnsmadeeasy for over a year now and have had great service from them. On features vs cost they win hands down. Had a quote from UltraDNS once and it was more than the total cost of our entire hosting infrastructure combined!

I'm working for 'social betworking' starup http://www.bragster.com/ in East London. I'm originally from the North West and often keep an eye out for jobs back there but they usually pay ridiculously low amounts so all the hackers congregate in or around London. Also there are loads of opportunities to network around London which are all but non-existent in the North.