Painless website monitoring

by Shane

I have a ton of websites I need to keep my eye on, in case the server dies or mysql dies or apache dies or any of the other millions things that can go wrong.

I tried pingdom and it’s certainly the business but the free accounts only allow for one domain and I didn’t really need most of the features.

I then came across specto, it rocks! From the site “Specto is a desktop application that will watch configurable events (such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc) and then trigger notifications.” It’s a ubuntu app(in the repos) and the process for adding sites couldn’t be simpler.

Add a webpage
Add a webpage
Fire an event that pops-up firefox with the url
Fire an event that pops-up firefox with the url