I have been using BinaryCanary for a few months now and found it to a fantastic service. I even moved my reseller hosting account due to the results.
With my previous hosting account I discovered that sites were going down in the morning anytime between 6:00am & 7:30am due to MySQL connection issues which is just not acceptable in anyone’s book.
I set up an escalation plan that first notifies me be email then by SMS if the issue is still outstanding after five minutes.
Being a hosted application means that there is no software to install.
I signed up for the Power Plan but there is an option for free service which is limited to 15 minute monitoring if you want to try it out.
Nice post. Thanks for sharing it. Better if you can monitor website rank, position and uptime in one place!
Thanks.
There are other monitoring services around. BinaryCanary just happens to fit my needs and also the support was very good.