I monitored 3 of my small sites through the host-tracker.com system for several months, turned on notifications to the jabber account and enjoyed a good uptime (or kicked the hoster when something broke), In general, everything was great until the last week or two. Recently there were interruptions in monitoring, and one of the sites generally dropped out of checks. Today this letter came:
As you probably know, we have provided for a long time our services are free. However, due to significant the growing number of sites, we unfortunately can not guarantee quality monitoring free of charge.
At the moment, we have developed several tariff models (including one free plan). In all new plans are guaranteed a selected monitoring interval, free SMS and some other features.
Will get acquainted with the tariff plans, and activate the selected plan you can on the following page: ')
host-tracker.com/order-page/info
The new free plan of optimism does not inspire at all, very much it is cut down. No new features in all plans proposed. Like this. Someone comes up with new and new free services, opens source codes, etc. etc. Maybe they should sell to Yandex? (joke)
PS For me it is not very scary, of course. If you really need it, I can organize a simple checker on each of my servers (since they are from different providers and in different cities) and send notifications also to jabber or email2sms. But still offensive.