3 Months ago, I covered two website monitoring tools, Uptime Robot and WUMP. Both tools notifies webmaster and administrator if one of their sites goes offline. For today's article, I will share similar tool called SiteMonitor. It is free portable tool to monitor your websites or hosts at regular intervals and alert you when they are down. To add a new website to watch, just click the Add button from the main interface. Enter a name you want to label the site, URL and HTML to match to ensure that the returned content is the actual page. Hit the Add button to save it. HTML to match feature is useful to detect hacked websites where hackers usually change the home page with their own content.
If you want to change how often the program checks your sites, then customize the check interval by going to Edit > Preferences > General Tab. From the Preferences form, you can also change the path of logs, run exe when site fails, enable e-mail notification and enable SMS notification.
You can use SiteMonitor not only to monitor your website but also servers which have a Web Interface such as mail servers. In my opinion, this tool is a better than the other two that I have mentioned because of the SMS notification and HTML to match features.SiteMonitor works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Testing was done on Windows 7 x86 system.
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