A free tool you can use that can help you monitor your website when it goes down is Google Analytics. With intelligence alerts, it can send you a text message or e-mail you when your site reaches a threshold. For instance you can set it to notify you when you have 0 real-time visitors on your website or if it drops dramatically. Setup custom alerts to notify you if your website is not receiving visitors.
Why you should use a monitoring service like Google Analytics
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