There are several great advantages to using a website uptime monitor.  For those who are not familiar with this service, a website uptime monitor checks you to see if your website is up and operational.  If you site is not up then the service notifies you by several different methods.  It then combines all of the information to create reports.  A good uptime monitoring service should check the website uptime from several locations around the globe.  Multiple check points will ensure that the site is up and it is actually a router that is down somwhere on the Internet.

This is extremely useful for people who are making money on the web and downtime means lost revenue, for companies or individuals who host their own server and it is their responsibility to keep the website up and running.  For people who do not want calls from their customers telling them that their site is down.

Uptime Monitor Advantages:

• Keep you hosting company honest
• Present Reports of Site Uptime and Downtime
• Know you site went down before your customers
• Ensure that your staff or responsible parties are aware of the site going down so they can fix it.