When you're trying to take your blog or website to the next level, its' important to have a quality website monitoring service so you are notified of any downtime instantly so you can get your site up and running after a problem. ping monitoring on your homepage, or any other important webpage on your site, will help keep your business running properly.

You can also monitor for specific text on the website you're monitoring. The reason for doing this is because even though your web server could be running, there could be a database error stopping your website from working properly. Therefore you can monitor specific key-phrases to ensure your website is running properly.

They will keep an eye on SSL and HTTPS pages since these tend to be very important. They will even tell you when your security certificate is about to expire so you don't experience any problems.

If your website requires a login name and password, you can enter it in your profile and monitor password-protected pages on your website.

You can get a free account and monitor up to 5 websites at a rate of 1 check every 15 minutes. This is good if you are just starting out, but if you're serious about keeping your website online, you should jump up to at least the standard plan, it gives you 10 websites to monitor at a rate of 1 check every minute. They'll even send you a text message when your site is down so you know instantly.