Pingdom

To keep an eye on my websites I use a tool called Pingdom.

What it basically does is checks up on your website at a set period of time (eg 15 minutes) to make sure the pages get returned okay. It lets me relax safe in the knowledge that should the untoward happen and something fails on the server, then I get an email/text saying so.

For the small fee it costs me it’s well worth it – keeping a client’s website up and running as close to 100% of the time is important!