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statuscake.com to the rescue!!! Wonderful, wonderful service with an excellent free tier. Emails you when a site can't be accessed for more than 5 minutes or so (so doesn't take into account random time outs.) Also, it sends another email when the site is back online.

https://www.statuscake.com/ these guys are great if looking for setup and forget. unless there's an issue!

Security a different matter - Better to think preventitive as you're not building to be alerted that you've been hacked...

Sounds good, but your sign up page is a bit confusing.

I'm assuming that as a free user I get 0 SMS credits? That's fine, but could you put a 0 above that so it's clear?

"Unselectable Test Locations" isn't clear either. I get that I can't choose which locations you run your tests from, but how many are you going to choose for me? 1?

And then from "Bulk Insert" and below...does everyone get those or what? Maybe you should put a checkmark above each of them so it's clear you're actually getting those things. It's inconsistent with the stuff above.

Also, you should know that uBlock breaks your sign up page. Dunno why, I don't see ads, but they appear to have flagged you for some reason.

Also, within 15 seconds of signing up I got a popup encouraging me to upgrade before I could even try out your app. Way too soon buddy, give me a chance to try it first.

https://www.statuscake.com/ is a decent solution for uptime monitoring/notification.

You never said what the root-cause of your issue was. That information would help me to provide a more specific solution for monitoring.

You could use StatusCake push monitoring.

StatusCake is free for up to 10 tests. You can have StatusCake connect to a Pi (e.g. if it has a public web service running), or configure each rPi to "ping" their server every X minutes. StatusCake will notify you if a test fails.

Sign up for statuscake and add an HTTP monitor for your main website URL

You'll get an email sent to you if it ever goes down for more than a few minutes

Cura's log file might enlighten you as to what is going wrong. It's hard to give a suggestion as to what you could try.

One thing might want to try is to update the SSL certificate authorities on your computer.

Last September, the root certificate of the Let's Encrypt SSL authority expired. As a result, everyone needs to update their list of root certificates. Windows 7 being no longer supported by Microsoft, you probably didn't get a new list of root certificates yet. You'd normally get those via "security" updates for Windows.

A layman's explanation of what is really happening, if you're interested:

• To download from the Marketplace, Cura makes a secure connection to the internet (ultimaker.com).
• To make sure it's secure, Cura (like most applications) verifies that the connection is actually coming from ultimaker.com. To this end, ultimaker.com sends over a certificate in a way that only Ultimaker can through some mathematical magic.
• Cura may then check if this certificate is valid. To do so it may check with Let's Encrypt, an internet service. However, it then also needs to check if the connection with Let's Encrypt is secure.
• To check the connection with Let's Encrypt, it validates Let's Encrypt's certificate by checking with a local, trusted list of certificates on your computer.
• Recently Let's Encrypt had to change its certificate. So this last check fails. As a result, Cura can't check if the connection with ultimaker.com is secure. And as a result it'll refuse to connect to the "Cura package database".

If this is the issue, it's a problem in Windows, not in Cura. And I'd expect other applications to have problems connecting too then. Web Browsers maybe not since those are different kinds of beasts. But other applications would if they connect to something certified by Let's Encrypt, like Ultimaker's website.

I just converted my home to Eero Pro 2 Gens about a month ago and have 25-ish IoT devices in my home. Only one of them are dual band (Rachio 3), and have yet to run into any issues with Band Steering and/or Threads being enabled. I don't have any Thread devices.

I'm coming from a 3 Airport Express Extreme setup to Eero and it just works. I host a public facing web server at home, and with the Aiports I'd get a 99.3% uptime, whereas I'm getting 100% uptime with the Eero. I use Statuscake to monitor my nginx status every 5 minutes....

You could run an ESP32 or rPi off the same breaker (not recommended) and have it make a heartbeat ("push" request) to a monitoring service like StatusCake every minute or so.

If the heartbeats fail, Statuscake sends alerts and you know that either power, or your internet service, is down.

What kind of phone? Many phones can have "rules" setup (e.g. with IFTTT) to automatically turn on WiFi based on location, time of day, etc.

> ISP uptime monitoring tool that can work on raspberry pi3 at that location where I can get notified if Internet or wifi has gone down say by the lack of a interval ping or something.

Easiest would probably be a free account from StatusCake.. You could have the rPi "phone home" to the Cake monitoring URL every X minutes, or if you setup a dynamic DNS name, could just have StatusCake do a ping to the IP address of the house and you wouldn't even need a server inside the home.

I got fancy, and run "SmokePing" on a small Unix VM inside the house. It monitors for not just complete outages, but also latency and packet loss.

Looks like it's a paid feature. Looked through the plan comparison and didn't see it, so I thought it was nonexistent. I found a KB article on it: https://www.statuscake.com/kb/knowledge-base/how-does-content-match-work/

Primarily use Statuscake, they have a nice free plan that's good for startups. I've seen virus scanning on there for public sites, and for defacement, they have string matching.

https://www.statuscake.com

With Status Cake you can monitor specific DNS records along with Domain Expiration / SSL Certificates / Websites / Page Speed / TCP Ports / SSH / PUSH (so remote scripts send heartbeat back to them)

MX Toolbox has DNS monitoring of specific records along with Blacklist / SPF / Email Round Trip monitoring.

For a standalone product DNS Spy appears to offer this service and can auto-detect quite a few records and if you can enable AXFR to them then it will just know all the records already.

UptimeRobot and StatusCake are both popular, but depending how fast you want the check's you may need to move to a pair tier on UptimeRobot.

Like Spankym pointed out https://uptimerobot.com would work for you. You could also look at https://www.statuscake.com/ have been using them for a couple of years and the pricing is great. And you can set up tons of locals. uptime is also free.

But meraki dashboard will give you most of the alerts you need. some times no in the best format via email to figure out which Org its coming from.

I tried ip/24 and it worked. So, yes. Range was supported. Only that the free plan on StatusCake is testing from a wide range of IP's: https://www.statuscake.com/kb/knowledge-base/what-are-your-ips/

And, my mistake. It was 4 IPs that could be spcified. Not 5.

Our network monitoring website is externally accessible, so I have StatusCake monitor our external site, along with our other public facing sites. Viola, internal and external monitoring and we can tell if our internal monitor is down.

You didn't say if is a wordpress site, but we use https://infinitewp.com and works really well so far.

If you want to know when the website goes down, https://www.pingdom.com/ or https://www.statuscake.com/ are good. I think both of them has a free thing but not sure anymore.

I wound integrate slack with one of the many services that offer free up-time monitoring. statuscake offers slack support, also it is free.