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Freshping shut down in March 2026. Compare 6 Freshping alternatives on free tiers, price, check speed and locations, ranked and fact-checked.

Calendar reminders fail past one domain. Check SSL certificates free, get notified before expiry, and automate the checks with the HostTracker CLI and API.

HostTracker runs a public MCP server so Claude Code and other MCP-capable assistants can run uptime checks and manage monitors through 65 tools.

Install the HostTracker CLI, authenticate with a token, run uptime checks and manage monitors, then wire it into CI with the official GitHub Action.

A developer's first tour of the HostTracker API v2: monitors, instant checks and webhooks, authentication, and curl examples for your first real call.

Install the official HostTracker SDK for Python, JavaScript, Go or .NET: package, install command and a working example for each, plus who can access it.

StatusCake's free plan is genuinely generous, but Business runs ~€70/month and alerting stays thin. Compare

Uptime Kuma is free and self-hosted; hosted monitoring costs money but adds multi-location checks and no ops

Site24x7 is a powerful IT-ops suite, not a website monitor first. If you only need uptime checks, these Site24x7 alternatives are simpler and cheaper.

We compared Pingdom, UptimeRobot, and HostTracker on price, check frequency, locations, check types, alert channels, and free tiers. Full 2026 breakdown.

Better Stack bundles uptime with logs and on-call from $29/month. Compare Better Stack alternatives built for pure monitoring, not a full platform.

We compared the 10 best website monitoring tools of 2026 on price, check types, alerting, and free plans, including Pingdom, UptimeRobot, and Better Stack.

Pingdom's synthetic monitoring starts at about $10/month annually for 10 checks. These 7 Pingdom alternatives cost less and add voice calls and blacklist checks.

UptimeRobot's free plan checks every 5 minutes and its SMS credits never renew. See 6 UptimeRobot alternatives with faster checks and wider coverage.

Learn more about web response codes, also known as HTTP codes, to identify problems with user requests to the server.

Learn in detail what ping is, what it affects, and how to perform a ping test. What tools does HostTracker offer and why are they the best solution? Get detailed instructions on how to set up IP ping tet or server ping test, etc.

We’re happy to introduce our newest monitoring feature - Database Check – that is easy to use, crystal-clear to understand and designed to get you through your website ‘critical hours’ as smoothly as possible.

The main feature of HostTracker monitoring service is the regular checks of web sites with monitoring intervals from 1 minute. Moreover, the HostTracker’s dedicated global monitoring checkpoints network currently includes more than 140 servers all over the world.

Every year, millions of domain names are lost. What happens after domain expires? How long will your domain wait for you before someone grabs it? And how to omit this?  

Monitor your domains for any changes. You can keep an eye on the state of available domains which you like, but don’t forget your own ones too. There is a wide variety of services, like HostTracker, which provide an easy, efficient way to track any changes of domain’s state.