I will write about server uptime monitoring using Screpy, a SaaS (Software as a Service) tool for monitoring, optimizing and managing your server.In a previous post, I have talked about the need to monitor the uptime of your website. In that post, I discussed over 15 tools for monitoring website performance, such as Hetrix Tools and Uptime Robot.
Some of these tools or SAAS (Software as a service) are free, while others follow the freemium model. A few, such as Phpservermonitor, are self hosted open source programs.
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Background : Uptime Monitoring Using Screpy
During my research for the website or server uptime monitoring tools, I signed up for 6 different services. This was in late 2020. In January 2021, I published a follow-up post, in which I described how I discontinued two of these services. Since then, I have signed up for lifetime plan for Screpy from Appsumo. This post talks about Screpy’s features, my likes and dislikes, as well as final thoughts.These services monitor the uptime of websites and send alerts via SMS, email or slack when there is downtime. The methods they use include ping, http/s, UDP, and others.
Screpy for Server Uptime, Website SEO and Speed
I started looking at what Screpy had to offer. In a nutshell, it provides a dashboard for multiple sites that one manages. The basic plan from Appsumo that I bought included 10 sites or 10 projects.The dashboard shows the overall site health, uptime, seo scores, etc.
But the interesting part begins once you connect a site with Screpy. The service does much more than monitoring uptime. It tells you some of the best practices for maintaining a healthy site, and the suggestions to implement changes. It crawls the site and highlights critical errors on your site if any. This includes, removing unused CSS, or, redundant software code that may exist. Next, it gives recommendations for some of the basic SEO, which includes hygiene factors such as reducing the image size, etc. It also prepares an index of all the pages on your website that will help in Google Page Speed. Using keywords, you can track whether your site ranks for those specific keywords. Finally, Screpy highlights any other issues that you need to handle , such as any any errors on the site.
I had used a similar tool in the past, but most are standalone and single tool for single task. In case of Screpy, I thought that the suggestions for SEO score itself I was a pretty relevant feature.
This post titled “Why it is critical to Monitor Uptime of Your Website” was published under the category notesand was last updated and archived on 30 August 2023 24 February 2024June 2025.