Video Quick Tip of the Week | Website Uptime Monitoring | How to Reliably Monitor Your Website Uptime for Zero Cost

Web hosts often make promises that may simply be untrue. Your website may be "going down" while you're asleep. As a website owner, you'll need a reliable way to monitor your total website uptime. A range of services are available both paid and free. Both have merits.

Above all, the most important criteria is reliability of the service you choose, with cost naturally, coming a close second. So two key questions include:

• How reliable is your preferred website checking service?
• What is the cost?

An All-in-One Website Uptime Monitoring Solution?

We think we have a good answer to both questions above in Montastic.com. The Montastic service is genuinely fantastic! Consider some of the features and benefits of using Montastic to monitor your website:

• Now you can reliably keep an independent eye on the performance to which your web host lays claim.
• Website monitoring through Montastic.com is quick, reliable, fun, easy, yet still free: that's amazing!
• The Montastic website user screen is simple yet elegant to use. Reminds me of the minimal approach as demonstrated by Google.com. Thank you and well done Montastic.com.
• Montastic.com send you an email when your site goes down and also when your website is back up running normally. Then, you can easily work out the total downtime.
  
• Your website status as defined through Montastic is also available in RSS news feed format directly from Montastic.com.
• Moreover, if you use Yahoo, you can download and install a free Montastic Yahoo widget to keep a real-time check on your website uptime status.
• Montastic say: "No unreasonable limit on the number of websites monitored."

How Montastic Provide an Excellent Service for Zero Cost in a Way that is Profitable

An amazing package for zero cost, without doubt. So quite reasonably, you might ask, what's the catch? I don't think there is one: check out there frequently asked questions. Although Montastic.com provide a perfectly reasonable explanation for offering their free service, make no mistake, their business logic is steeped in clever marketing and sound business sense all wrapped up in authentic generosity and genuine warmth.

The moral? Every now and then, life rains flowers - and perhaps this is one of those occasions :-)

How do Montastic.com finance their web monitoring service?

Answer: by giving genuine value first in a simple, non-threatening way, Montastic.com achieve an ever widening, free advertising reach across the Internet both for Montastic.com, their parent company and associated web businesses. What a supreme way to do business on the Web. We can all learn from the refreshing Montastic.com approach to web marketing.

Naturally, over time, most reasonable people who use the Montastic.com service regularly are more likely to be grateful for the excellent free services provided by Montastic.com, therefore can consider Montastic.com as a kind of trusted friend. As a result, Montastic.com users are more likely to do business with Montastic.com parent companies or recommend them to others. In this way, Montastic.com achieve the enviable feat of essentially persuading strangers to advertise their websites for no cost.

Tip: when everyone involved in a transaction feels they have gained, that's web business at its best: a win-win for all concerned!

One more tip: make sure you add @montastic.com to your Internet Service Provider email white list to make doubly sure that you can receive those all important website monitoring emails.

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