[daveh]

Originally posted by TA Message Board Thanks for the suggestions. Only one website to check, and I don't want to spend any cash on it. Signed up on this website for their free checking every 30 mins http://www.siteuptime.com I'm going to have a wee look for a program I can run on my own PC that will track uptime. Should be possible.

I use siteuptime amd found them to be reliable. They did have an issue with their global location monitoring but that was fixed quite a few months back.

I use the premium service for $5 (£2.60) a month but the free service runs on the same system just at different durations.

One thing to remember though, if you site is down for only a few seconds at the time the siteuptime monitoring occurs, it will report it as down and rightly so. However, the next check isn't for another 30mins and therefore your site downtime will be reported as 30mins!

If its a free service you don't mind, just remember that for when your monthly uptime report comes in.