Alertra monitors websites

Alertra is a website monitoring service that monitors and detects outages on the fly for VickeryHill's support staff.

alertra monitors websites We have been using it for over 4 years and found that, at the lowest price point of $12/yr, it is one heck of an insurance policy for websites hosted all over the Internet. We use Alertra to monitor:

VickeryHill mail server(s)
Client websites with HTTP
Ping and SMTP verification
DNS verification
Tracerouting

When an alarm goes off, we (and our clients) get alerted via:

Voice call (automated)
SMS text message
Email

When alerted, a VickeryHill staff member disables the monitoring (so the phone stops ringing) and then begins working to to determine what the problem is. Sometimes it involves manually checking the website, testing the FTP and file structure, verifying domains and the registrar and then usually contacting the hosting provider to solve the issue. It really is a nice, inexpensive solution.

Let us know if you are interested in having us monitor your site.

Why monitor your website uptime?

At first, we started using Alertra as a low-cost way to monitor our client's websites. After implementing for 30 customers, we started noticing more downtime than we ever knew about.

We now use it as both a live 20 minute website status check and a reporting tool that we can push back on web hosting providers.

Just having the tool report downtimes has helped us (and our client ISPs) to improve their service.

Interested in having us monitor your site online?
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