Free Online tool for Website monitoring

Do you have a website and want to check if it’s ping-able from around the world or not? Website monitoring is very important for a website owner. There are too many free and paid softwares available online for website monitoring.

I’m sure that most of them will not go for a paid version of website monitoring tool unless they have some major product to sell or some major website or a blog.

One such online web based website monitoring tool that is completely free of cost is - Just Ping. Just follow the following steps to check if your website is ping-able from around the world or not.

• Go to Just Ping website.
• Enter your IP address or your domain name.
• Click on Ping button

According to their website Ping uses the ICMP protocol’s mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or a gateway. If you don’t understand the technology part of it, you don’t have to worry. For those who want to know more about the technical part you can visit their website and go to About Ping page for more details.

The best thing about this is it is completely and the response is really quick. Also, while testing this Ping will ping your website from 50 different location across the world. As you can see I have verified my website and I see that for most of them the ping worked fine and there were around 4 to 5 ping’s where there was 10 percent packet loss. Also, I see that 2 locations from China says – ‘Checkpoint temporarily not available’. Not sure what’s the meaning of that. So, What do you say? Do you think China is blocking most of the websites, my website or is it something to do with the ping server. Leave a comment on what you think and share this post with your friends if you find it useful. Let me tell you that this is one simple and easy to use online web based website monitoring tool.

Boost your site performance using Website Monitoring

If you have a website and have purchased both the domain and hosting form a third party then you always want your website to be up and running. What if your website is down and cannot be accessed. You might be losing your customers and traffic, which means money. This can be avoided using website monitoring.

Most of us go for a shared hosting plan as it’s cheaper when compared to the expensive dedicated hosting servers and these hosting companies promise an uptime of 99.9 percent. Shared hosting servers will have many websites like yours hosted on the same hosting servers. You can find websites hosted on a Web Hosting Server [link] by using reverse IP. The problem with shared hosting is, when there is huge traffic to some other website hosted on the same server as yours, then there will some times be downtime to other websites or a performance hit  to other or your websites. Most of the hosting companies promise that there won’t be a performance hit but as per my experience when I call up technical support for a help that’s the common reason given by them.

But how to monitor your website performance as to when exactly was your website down and for how long. There are various website monitoring services available in the market. Here is what I have done. I have registered my website with few free website monitoring sites like FreeWebMonitoring and Internet Seer. There are many such web monitoring tools and websites available in the market both paid and free. The most basic or free version of these tools only monitor your website and report in case of any downtime. Paid versions monitor your website in a detailed manner. Below are some of the types of error messages and downtime alerts that I received.

The best thing is as soon as your website is down even when you are away, alert will be sent to you in an email if there is a downtime along with the error details. Once the issue is fixed there will be another alert sent to you with the total downtime. So, you will be completely aware of your website as you get alerts even when you are away. As soon as you get your first alert the best thing is to call up hosting service company and report them that your website is down and this will at-least bring down the total downtime.