Montastic is Fantastic
I went to Paul Stamatiou's site to learn about Pingdom site monitoring service and found out about Montastic in the comments. Pingdom is a paid service, so it was out of the question for me (I don't actually lose much money if/when my site goes down). I wasn't really thinking of signing up for Montastic either, since even with the service I wasn't expecting to ever login to the site or monitor my uptime with RSS.
But then I saw this:
I was all like, "a Yahoo! widget that brings my website monitoring stats to my desktop, effectively integrating this useful service with my everyday computer use? Totally cool!" I was sold.
So now I have website monitoring for all of my websites (I can monitor up to 100 on one account, which is kind of a lot), and the results are always readily available right on my desktop. If you ask me, that Yahoo! widget is Montastic's best selling point (right up there with being 100% free). It's so good, I'm here blogging about it just to tell you: if you use Yahoo! widgets, and website monitoring is something that interests you, go with Montastic.
One more image of Montastic on my desktop just for good measure:
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You just love cluttering up your desktop, huh?
Great tip. Thanks!!
I have been using Montastic for awhile now receiving updates via email and RSS. I don't think I have ever checked the RSS feed like I thought I would. I host a lot of sites myself so this kind of service is quite important. I find the emails (thanks to GMail notifications) are more beneficial.
I do not use Yahoo! Widgets but that is great differentiation for Montastic - aside from their freeness.
also check http://mon.itor.us - free monitoring service which also shows site performance in realtime using chart and table views in addtion to alert notification and SLA reporting. Uses Ajax desktop interface and provide google, netvibes widgets and RSS feeds.
Gee, I feel like the poor cousin here
No widgets, or rss, just email and sms … to wake you up in the middle of the night. Hey, it's not my fault your server went belly up, I just thought you'd want to know
Oh, then there's my uptime journal to broadcast my random thoughts.
Anyways, feel free to drop by and take it for a spin at basicstate.com