Very often we were receiving e-mails from our users stating that their server was down, but they didn’t get SMS notifications. After investigating these issues, it turned out that SMS accounts of those users were exhausted. To avoid such complains in the future and to inform our users earlier regarding their SMS account usage we have come up with a solution. From now on the users will receive SMS from Monitis stating that they reached their available limit of SMS notifications.  If they want to continue receiving SMS notifications they will need to refill(buy) additional SMS credits. Thus, you can avoid any unexpected downtimes by ensuring your SMS account has enough credit and continue receiving SMS notifications in the event of a problem.

Considering many requests of our users regarding issues related to PDF reports, we are happy to announce an the availability of HTML reports. So starting from the next weekly report you will receive both HTML format reports and a PDF attachment. Our HTML format report consists of several sections in the following order – reports section, news section and administrative section. We hope that this report will help you easily and quickly go through all of your tests and monitor their uptime and average response time.

…Slightly more complex, but also data-rich and informative, is Mon.itor.us.
Sign up, and you can monitor sites, compare site up-time, get detailed
reports, and receive email alerts when your site goes down. Mon.itor.us
is not as easy to use at Montastic, but the reporting is more robust.
And since both services are free, it certainly doesn’t hurt to use both
to monitor your sites…

(Source: www.beaconfire.com/blog/2008/01/03/web-site-monitoring-tools/)

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