# Montastic: the free website monitoring system that doesn't s

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/montastic-the-free-website-monitoring-system-that-doesnt-s/51994>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 9, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/montastic-the-free-website-monitoring-system-that-doesnt-s/51994 "2006-01-09T23:49:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jean_vacance)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/montastic-the-free-website-monitoring-system-that-doesnt-s/51994/1 "2006-01-09T23:49:56Z")

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We are proud to announce this free website monitoring service:

Montastic will alert you by email if your website goes down, so you  
know about it before your customers call you.

It is built with Ajax and Ruby on Rails. Check it out, it is really  
useful and it is the sexiest monitoring service available 🙂

> **[Montastic Website Monitoring](https://www.montastic.com/)**
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> The mighty websites monitoring & status page software. Free plan available. Free for open source software.

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**Author:** ![jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jean_vacance)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/montastic-the-free-website-monitoring-system-that-doesnt-s/51994/2 "2006-01-10T00:11:06Z")

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Cool service, thanks for putting it out there!

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**Author:** ![jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jean_vacance)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/montastic-the-free-website-monitoring-system-that-doesnt-s/51994/3 "2006-01-10T02:05:44Z")

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jean vacance wrote:

> We are proud to announce this free website monitoring service:
> 
> Montastic will alert you by email if your website goes down, so you  
> know about it before your customers call you.
> 
> It is built with Ajax and Ruby on Rails. Check it out, it is really  
> useful and it is the sexiest monitoring service available 🙂

I like it. How often is the status checked?

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**Author:** ![jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jean_vacance)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/montastic-the-free-website-monitoring-system-that-doesnt-s/51994/4 "2006-01-10T04:09:20Z")

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> > It is built with Ajax and Ruby on Rails. Check it out, it is really  
> > useful and it is the sexiest monitoring service available 🙂
> 
> I like it. How often is the status checked?

FAQ #2:

How often does the system monitor my sites?

Every 10 minutes at the minimum.

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**Author:** ![jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jean\_vacance](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jean_vacance)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/montastic-the-free-website-monitoring-system-that-doesnt-s/51994/5 "2006-01-10T06:21:57Z")

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On 1/10/06, jean vacance [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> We are proud to announce this free website monitoring service:  
> …  
> [www.montastic.com](http://www.montastic.com)

Looks nice!

Reading the FAQ, I found [1] and [2]. In light of that, any chance of  
open sourcing it?

I’d be interested in extending it to include some statistics, email  
alerts and the ability to check for a “matching sentence” (all work  
submitted back to the project for everyone to use of course).

[1] Why is it free? Is there a catch?

There is no catch. We developed Montastic for us and the cost of  
development was minimal. Montastic is 100% automated and adding  
servers to monitors costs virtually nothing. So, we wanted to share  
its usefulness and its fun with others.

[2] What’s the big plan about it?

There is no plan. We are just going to use it ourselves and make it  
better based on the feedback you send us.