Comments on: Set up SMS Monitoring for Your Sites for Free in Less than Five Minutes http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/ Musings of a Balding 27 Year Old Entrepreneur Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:12:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A Wacky End to ‘08 - Adam McFarland http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-1692 A Wacky End to ‘08 - Adam McFarland Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:12:59 +0000 http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/#comment-1692 [...] Speaking of raising hell, it turns out that the error was showing for a good 2 hours before I discovered it.  Turns out my website monitoring set up didn’t work.  Or, more specifically, Montastic hadn’t monitored our sites in 2 days!  A far cry from the 10 minutes they claim on their site.  So while Liquid Web was sorting everything out, I signed up for free accounts for SiteUptime, a service I used for years with SL, and immediately received the text message that both DI and TD were down (I configured it to forward emails to my phone as text messages just like I did on this tutorial). [...] [...] Speaking of raising hell, it turns out that the error was showing for a good 2 hours before I discovered it.  Turns out my website monitoring set up didn’t work.  Or, more specifically, Montastic hadn’t monitored our sites in 2 days!  A far cry from the 10 minutes they claim on their site.  So while Liquid Web was sorting everything out, I signed up for free accounts for SiteUptime, a service I used for years with SL, and immediately received the text message that both DI and TD were down (I configured it to forward emails to my phone as text messages just like I did on this tutorial). [...]

]]> By: Adam McFarland http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-1691 Adam McFarland Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:11:47 +0000 http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/#comment-1691 Update - Montastic was very disappointing and didn't come through when our sites were down (they hadn't checked the sites within 2 days when it says they check every 10 minutes on their site!). So I switched to SiteUptime http://www.siteuptime.com/ and did the same process to send SMS alerts, and it's working great. Update – Montastic was very disappointing and didn’t come through when our sites were down (they hadn’t checked the sites within 2 days when it says they check every 10 minutes on their site!). So I switched to SiteUptime http://www.siteuptime.com/ and did the same process to send SMS alerts, and it’s working great.

]]> By: Adam McFarland http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-1593 Adam McFarland Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:29:51 +0000 http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/#comment-1593 An updated list I just found http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/ An updated list I just found http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/

]]> By: Adam McFarland http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-1573 Adam McFarland Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:25:57 +0000 http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/#comment-1573 Glad it helps! Even though that article was a few years old, that was the only place I could find a full list so for some reason the list isn't as widely publicized as it should be. Glad it helps! Even though that article was a few years old, that was the only place I could find a full list so for some reason the list isn’t as widely publicized as it should be.

]]> By: Feedback Secrets http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-1567 Feedback Secrets Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:28:06 +0000 http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/#comment-1567 The list of email address that you have compiled is extremely useful not only for monitoring the status of your website, but also in general for sending texts via a computer. I've been sending texts like this to Verizon phones but didn't know the address for the other carriers. I suppose I could have looked them up. But this is very convenient. The list of email address that you have compiled is extremely useful not only for monitoring the status of your website, but also in general for sending texts via a computer.

I’ve been sending texts like this to Verizon phones but didn’t know the address for the other carriers. I suppose I could have looked them up. But this is very convenient.

]]> By: Leigh http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 Leigh Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:36:23 +0000 http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2008/11/20/set-up-sms-monitoring-for-your-sites-for-free-in-less-than-five-minutes/#comment-1566 That's awesome! Thanks for the information. I'm seriously slacking on getting my site up and running - I've got the domain and the hosting. I just haven't gotten around to writing the content yet (which I should make a priority). That’s awesome! Thanks for the information. I’m seriously slacking on getting my site up and running – I’ve got the domain and the hosting. I just haven’t gotten around to writing the content yet (which I should make a priority).

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