Show HN: Updown.io, a simple and cheap website monitoring service (opens in new tab)

Why do they need full access (read and write) to my personal user data on my Github account?

It is so beautiful, and has the basic functionality of which I use Pingdom for but at a much cheaper rate. Transferring my domains now...

Beautiful. It makes me want to work much harder on mine (https://www.datasnitch.co.uk).

I like the Google/GitHub integration, the API and especially how you sell its simplicity. DataSnitch is quite simple, but you're one step further.

Congratulations :-)

I would love to see this integrated w/ Pushover.net. Would save $ on SMS fees, and has the ability to send alerts as high priority (ignoring vibrate/silence). Or even just adding an email address instead of an SMS phone # as the alert contact method would work.

This looks great. I've used uptimerobot on several client projects where I just need a simple up/down notification. The control panel is a little weird, but other than that works really well for its purposes. And it's free.

I was looking for something like this the other day and I found a few open source apps: https://github.com/fzaninotto/uptime and https://github.com/arachnys/cabot

It would be good to find one that I could deploy on app engine.

Using it for about a year without false positive/negative. Usually much more sensitive than the competition for short issue detection.

I would still prefer my own website monitoring tool Anturis http://www.anturis.com which is even free if you have only 5 monitors and then the starting price is about $9 per month for nice and effective phone, sms, email alerts and offered troubleshooting.

Very slick! Reminds me of a slimmed-down version of the Where's It Up API (https://api.wheresitup.com/), but with monitoring.

(Full disclosure: I've done some work for the Where's It Up folks.)

If you need more than simple HTTP checks (PING, SMTP, WebSocket, etc) you may want to check out NodePing (https://nodeping.com).

Significantly cheaper than Pingdom, as there's significantly less monitoring POPs.