{"id":7766,"date":"2013-09-04T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2016-05-08T23:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:31:12","slug":"uptime-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/uptime-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptime Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve been using the $20\/year <a href=\"http:\/\/vigil-app.com\">Vigil<\/a> iOS app to monitor my Web sites. It doesn&rsquo;t offer a lot of options or information, but it&rsquo;s easy to set up and can notify you via iOS push notifications.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redpola\/status\/374570720388718592\">Neil Brewitt<\/a> told me about <a href=\"http:\/\/uptimerobot.com\">Uptime Robot<\/a>, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uptimerobot.com\/whats-next-for-uptime-robot\/\">free<\/a> and seems to offer a lot more: an API, notifications via e-mail, SMS, RSS, etc. To receive iOS push notification, you need the free <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/boxcar\/id321493542?mt=8&amp;at=10l6nc\">Boxcar app<\/a> (or, I guess, one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/uptimerobot\/id549265163?mt=8&amp;at=10l6nc\">unofficial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/uptimerobot-monitor\/id536648855?mt=8&amp;at=10l6nc\">clients<\/a>). Or, if you follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uptimerobot\">@uptimerobot<\/a> on Twitter, it can <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uptimerobot.com\/twitter-support-for-receiving-alerts\/\">send direct messages<\/a> to your Twitter client of choice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve been using the $20\/year Vigil iOS app to monitor my Web sites. It doesn&rsquo;t offer a lot of options or information, but it&rsquo;s easy to set up and can notify you via iOS push notifications. Neil Brewitt told me about Uptime Robot, which is free and seems to offer a lot more: an API, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,31,26,49,560,559,96],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-developertool","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-twitter","tag-uptimerobot","tag-vigil","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14429,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions\/14429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}