Show HN: Free monitoring and notification service. (Alpha)

Hi,<p>I&#x27;m asked to sign up, but there are no details about the service. I don&#x27;t even know how it can monitor my site. I have zero interest to give my email address at this stage, but that&#x27;s the only thing I can do. You need to entice me to sign up, maybe by explaining the features and how come is this free.<p>I understand the ad strategy, but the above concern plus the fact that the landing page is full of ads doesn&#x27;t give me confidence to sign up.<p>In my opinion, page views and especially on your landing page will not give you the desired value and it&#x27;ll stop some people from signing up. Maybe you can do text ads (affiliate links?) in the footer of the emails sent by the system.

Now it has more information, but as far as I can tell you only send pings, right?<p>Nowadays, just icmp doesn&#x27;t cut it. People want to know if their service is running, not so much if the server is running. Also, some big hosting providers (e.g. Azure) don&#x27;t even reply to ping.<p>My suggestion is to add http&#x2F;https queries. I&#x27;m not sure what do you use in the backend, but almost every language has an http library to make this easy for you.<p>If you&#x27;d like to have a look, one of my side projects is a monitoring site: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasnitch.co.uk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasnitch.co.uk</a>