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Since the beginning, Uptime Robot was supporting URLs with SSL certificates (https). However, self-signed certificates (the ones with unknown CAs) were not supported as they were generating errors like "unknown certificate", etc. and Uptime Robot was considering these websites to be down. Today, URLs with self-signed certificates are now supported just like any other URL […]

We get many questions regarding "if Uptime Robot will ever become paid or not" and thought it'll be the best to share it in detail. Why Is Uptime Robot Free? We have launched Uptime Robot in January 2010 hoping to offer a non-complicated uptime service (where every website owner actually needs). Also, we had created […]

Since the launch of Uptime Robot, we’re analyzing the cost of keeping logs in means of performance and size. With lots of tweaks to our engine and code, Uptime Robot now saves every action to present them as reports and charts. The first report activated is the “Last 24 Hours Status” which can be found […]

Few weeks ago, Twitter approved our request for getting whitelisted to use their API, so we wouldn’t be limited with the standard daily API usage limits. And, we just activated the Twitter integration for getting the up/down alerts via Twitter DMs (direct messages). The usage is very simple: Follow @uptimerobot Twitter user (so, it can […]

Excited to share a nice move that will make Uptime Robot much more stable and eliminate any false-positives. We’ll be starting to monitor websites from multiple locations (from US, Europe, Asia, etc.) to make 100% sure that they are “down” before sending any notifications. It is all set now and we’ll be doing test monitoring […]

Well, this is actually more a bug fix than a new feature but this sounds much better :). Because of how Uptime Robot was handling/filtering URLs, monitors with querystrings couldn’t be added. And, it is fixed now. So, it is possible to monitor a URL like http://ww.mydomain.com/index.php?item=1&price=15. Also, in some cases, multiple notifications were being […]