Show HN: Reliable and free website monitoring (alerts via sms, email or tweet)

Hi,

We just beta lunched on betalist 2 days ago and got great early feedback. If you need instant access with no queue pls use: http://monitority.com?subid=hn

The what: Monitority is a reliable & free website monitoring service that enables users to track unlimited services (websites, urls or ip addresses etc.) and receive alerts (via email, text-sms, tweet) when these services are not responding. Registered users can monitor as many services as they want and get alerts including worldwide free text-sms messages. Members can access Monitority via website interface (iOS & Android in dev).

It's still a work in progress but the core monitoring engine is solid.

We're monitoring this thread for feedback. you can also email me directly at daniel@monitority.com

Thanks, Daniel, founder of Monitority.com

Thanks for the warm welcome feedback - voila the answers: 1. Good idea to make features list page so you can get a sense for the service before you sign up. (yes, we support string check for content - released 2 days ago, currently no custom headers though at this point)

2. registered and members are one and the same. everyone get's unlimited urls. everyone gets sms alerts (and email and tweet)

3. We hear a lot: 'Why is it free' and 'how can you make it reliable and free' - For us, Monitority is an investment. It is our belief that there is huge value in a free monitoring product, and by that I don't mean the bait and catch freemium model - since we didn't find any serious free one, we set out to build it ourselves.

We don't plan to have monitoring paid services - we are focused on getting website owners & startup companies to use it.

What would make you switch? - I don't know exactly what you are getting from your current service - you can try us out (really simple on-board process) and see for yourself how you can save on your monitoring costs.

As we are free service, you are currently talking to customer service ;) feel free to contact me with any problem at daniel@monitority.com

Thanks for trying and for your valuable feedback.

Rock & roll! thanks for your feedback! Let us know if there are specific stuff you want.

Daniel, founder of Monitority.com

One of my thought was if I had a "test fail" button (probably one-time) I would be so happy :) I mean when I turned all that notifications on, I'd like to know how I'll get the Twitter alert. PM? tweet? From what account and what it will contains? SMS. Is it even do the trick for Russia and what inside? (Yes, I got welcome SMS later). Even email would be great because then I can turn my gmail's filters by sender and subject.

Than I come up: why actually I should bother Monitority with that if I could just down my server for a moment and get all those stuff with actual data?

And know what? Maybe this is because I'm a lazy ass like all developers, but after couple of days I still have no clue how alerts looks like.

Hi Steve,

Yes - IPv6 is supported

We currently test from three locations. A site is considered "down", only when the majority of the probes reach an agreement. This helps us avoid false positives due to local routing issues.