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Montastic: a nice web monitoring tool
If you need a simple way to be warned when a web site goes offline, you may find Montastic sweet: a web-hosted and free monitoring service, very simple to setup.
It checks your sites at minimum every 10 minutes, provides RSS and email notification, and includes a totally-geeky widget you can install on your desktop:

I've been using it for one month and I'm very happy with it.
4 comments
Comment from: Avoyan [Visitor] · http://mon.itor.us
http://mon.itor.us provides much more services for free. It includes Ajax desktop with customizable interface, provide responce time monitoring and many other cool features.
10/07/06 @ 21:21
Comment from: Helen [Visitor] · http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/
Thank you for your post. It is information of current importance for me.
01/09/08 @ 11:06
Comment from: Sithu [Visitor] · http://100pulse.com/
I would like to suggest you 100pulse website monitoring service where you can monitor upto 2 sites free. It's the easiest way to detect your downtime and uptime and they will alert you through email, RSS feed and google gadgets instantly.
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02/18/10 @ 09:47