HOW TO MONITOR WEBSITE WITH GOOGLE DOCS
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Use Google Docs
as a free website monitoring tool to track unlimited number of domains and
receive instant email and SMS text alerts when any site is down.
You can use
Google Docs to monitor your website’s up time and get instant alerts if your
site is down or unavailable to visitors. The latest version of this Google Docs
based website monitoring tool is even better:
1. You can now
monitor multiple websites and blogs for downtime/uptime in one go.
2. In addition to
email alerts, you can now choose to receive SMS alerts on our phone if any of
your sites are down.
The text alerts
are routed through Google Calendar and are therefore free.
In fact, this is
probably the only tool that lets you monitor unlimited number of website
domains and offers both SMS and email based alerts without charging a penny . Here’s how you can
install the monitor in Google Docs in less than 60 seconds:
Build your own
website monitoring tool with Google Docs, SMS alerts included
Real-time Website
Monitor with Text Alerts
1. Click here to
create a personal copy of the Website Monitor HD sheet in your own Google Docs
account.
2. You’ll see a
new Website Monitor menu in the toolbar. Click Initialize and you’ll get a
pop-up asking for authorization. Just say Yes.
3. Put your Website
URLs in cell B2 (comma separated) and your email address in cell B3.
4. Go to the
Website Monitor menu again and choose “Start Monitoring”.
That’s it. Close
the Google Docs sheet and it will monitor your sites in the background. If you
do not wish to receive SMS alerts, simply change the value of cell B4 from Yes
to No.
The full source
code of the project is available at ctrlq.org – no one else has access to your
data and you can disable the script anytime by setting the email address in
cell B3 to blank.
See more Google
Docs tips & tricks . [*] If you aren’t getting text alerts on your phone,
please ensure that your phone number is associated with Google Calendar as
detailed in this tutorial
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