Third party service to trigger web service

Question

I am looking for a third-party service or tool that can trigger or hit a web page at scheduled times. Does anyone know of any? I currently use my windows scheduler to hit these pages, but there are gaps in this since I don't run my computer 24 / 7.

Answer 1

There are lots of free website monitoring services out there that check your site's availability by testing whether a given URL responds properly. One that I use is http://mon.itor.us/ Give it the URL of your page and that will do the trick.

Answer 2

One other alternative is Pingdom. They offer a free account for monitoring one web site. You can set Pingdom to send email or SMS if your site goes down and you can configure the service to hit your page for example once in every 5 minutes. You can set the check resolution quite freely.

Some other alternatives are MonitorUs (which RichieHindle already mentioned), SiteUptime and HyperSpin.

Answer 3

Another good and free option is AlertFox. It differs from the other services because it run tests in real web browsers (IE and Firefox). This is very useful if you also need to fill out a web form, not only load a page.

Browsermob does the same.