Is Your Website Up?

by Scott on February 3, 2009

A few weeks ago I signed up for a free account at Are My Sites Up?.  I then promptly forgot about it.  Today I opened my gmail account and found the following message:

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I promptly emailed support at 1and1.com and it was back up within 15 minutes.  What a great service Are My Sites Up? provides and for free!  They also provide a premium version as well that  adds a private RSS feed, Twitter alerts, and monitoring of up to 60 websites.

The screenshot below shows how easy and intuitive it is to use:

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Oh, one other thing, when my site came back online I received the following email:

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This service is so easy to use, there is no reason not to use it if you own your own website(s).

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1 Chris Coyier 02.04.09 at 10:59 am

Hey thanks for the love Scott! I’m glad the service has already been of use.

2 Tim Haughton 02.05.09 at 5:52 am

Amusingly, you left the m off the .com in their domain name in the link, I thought their site was down :)

3 Scott 02.05.09 at 8:09 am

Tim,

Thanks, I fixed it!

~Scott

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