It allows you to both monitor your own sites and resell our site monitoring service to your clients, so you can easily get your websites monitored, and even make a profit! Basically, we’re giving you a great way to make more money from your existing clients by offering them our service under your name! If you have a group of websites that you host for your clients, you can make sure that they are online at all times, giving them peace of mind, and roll it into your hosting cost or just offer it as a value-added service. Here is a demo of how the service looks to admin users: http://amsuwl.com/demo

So what else is different about AMSUWL? It’s a full-fledged white label service, so your clients don’t ever even have to know that we exist…you can sell our service as if it were your own. We can build a custom iPhone app for you with your own logo, icon and colors, with your own page in the App Store, so that your brand is always on your clients’ phone screen, or you can use our more generic one if you’d like. The generic app is available now on the App Store here and it can be used with any of our regular plans. You just send that link to your clients, and they can install the app, log in and see their own sites at any time. They can also log into the web app and view/manage their sites there.

We also offer something that is a first in the industry: Broadcasts. They allow you to send short messages to all of your clients at once, or any selection of your clients. Here’s an example of how they help you to save time: You host email for all of your clients, and your email server has an issue. One by one, your customers realize that their email isn’t working, and they call you. You answer phone calls all day, saying to each customer that you’re aware of the issue and that it’s being worked on. Broadcasts solve this problem by letting you send a message to all of your customers at once, these arrive via Push Notification, SMS, email (and even via automated phone call soon) telling everyone what’s going on at once, so you can all get back to work. Pretty awesome.

All of our plans have a 30-day free trial so you can start reselling the service and make money from it before we even charge you a cent.

There are 2 plan levels: one is $2.50 per site per month (generic iPhone app, your own subdomain yourcompany.ismonitored.com) and the other is $5 per site per month (custom iPhone app where you can set your own price if you’d like, use your own domain, and more).

If this is the website monitoring service that you’ve been waiting for, sign up here: http://amsuwl.com.

http://bob:password123@turtles.com

Hope this helps!

Thanks to all of you for being Are My Sites Up customers!

The only users who were affected were those who monitor a folder on their site instead of just the domain (http://slickrframe.com/photos/index vs http://slickrframe.com). This also happens if you have a domain that looks like this: http://slickrframe.com/ instead of this: http://slickrframe.com

This issue has been resolved, new code has been pushed and if you were/are experiencing this issue, you should see your affected sites come online the next time our site checkers check your sites.

I apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused you.

Other features include a bit of a reworked interface, the ability to enter login credentials directly from the app itself, and a backend framework for us to build in more features in the future more easily.

The LITE version, for free users, has been submitted but is awaiting Apple approval. is also available!

AMSU 1.21

This may be good for you to know, as applications and servers can be configured to respond differently to different User Agents. As long as your server and application are OK with our User Agent (doesn’t serve up an error, or anything different than a browser request), site checks will work great. It may also be good for looking through your server logs to see our site checker hits.

If you think your site checks are being affected by this and don’t have the ability to change anything to fix it, static file checking is usually the best bet.

You can run a load test on your site right now for free, courtesy of Load Impact:

http://css-tricks.com/

However, if you find that you are getting exorbitant “false positives” (down notifications when the site isn’t down) or if you have added your site and we are telling you it’s down right after adding it (when it clearly isn’t down), we recommend static file checking.

Instead of checking the root domain, check a static file e.g.

http://css-tricks.com/amsu.txt

http://css-tricks.com/style.css

The deal is that sometimes applications running on the server behave funny when we do our check. It may be because of the lack of user-agent (something we’re working on) or the fact that many applications do lots of internal redirects before actually serving up a page (we’re limited as to how many redirects we will follow) or sometimes simply because the application gives us a 404 for some unknown reason.

Checking a static file may help these issues, but still be perfectly adequate for watching for serious site outages.