Website Monitoring Service

I use Site24x7 for my website monitoring service – it’s nice because you can be notified via email and/or SMS whenever your site goes down. Sorry, it’s not free – I only use it because I signed up when they started and was grandfathered in. The website I’ve been working on has recently been having a lot of problems and I wanted to keep close tabs on it. This runs into a problem because Site24x7 only allows a maximum of 5 minute intervals for site requests.

A quick search on Google found HostTracker. It’s a handy web tool which does every Site24x7 can do (as far as I can tell). Better than that though, the 30 day trial allows up to 1 minute site request intervals…bingo! Very handy. The site is very easy to use and very helpful. I’d definitely recommend giving it a try.

The Gratitude Campaign

This is obviously an aside to the web tools I usually post about.

As the son of a 20+ year, 3 time war Army vet and brother of a ROTC cadet, I feel the need to help spread the word about a new effort to show our gratitude for our brave armed forces.

From an email I received:

Have you ever seen one of our military walking past you and wanted to convey
to them your thanks, but weren’t sure how or it felt awkward?

Recently, a gentleman from Seattle created a gesture which could be used and
has started a massive movement to get the word out.

Please everybody take just a moment to watch…. The Gratitude Campaign
…and then forward it to your friends!

Click on below.

http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php

Valid Google PageRank for each server

I just thought I’d share the site that I use to find my sites’ PR. I use DigPageRank. The site is a very useful tool. Obviously, there are a lot of PR tools out there, but I find this one particularly useful because it’s simple and it returns results from multiple servers, which can be useful in verifying it’s validity – which is also another nice feature that the site boasts.

Link: http://www.digpagerank.com/