CNET Reviews

Better Uptime Reviews

1. Veronika Davies

   over 3 years ago
   Amazing Pingdom alternative!

   User friendly uptime monitoring tool with loads of easy to set up integrations. Definitely recommend!

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use|Slack and teams notification|Reliable
2. Hannah Lewis

   almost 4 years ago
   Great website monitoring service

   I like Better Uptime because it's very reliable and quickly responds to any downtime on my site.

CNET mentions (19)

• Transfer a domain

  Thank you for your response. I admit I was lazy at first. I got a dodgy feeling when I did a renewal for one domain in August 2022, but I figured I would move it before the next renewal. Now cis.net is telling me that I would be in breach of the hosting contract that I first "signed" when I signed up for hosting via a cnet.com promotion back in 2020. Supposedly the contract renews at the same terms and I am not... Source: 11 months ago

• Who in this group know DOS

  I still use dos today. especially when diagnosing network issues. Need to know you router IP address? start / run / type cmd and then ipconfig. It displays your ip address and that of your default gateway (your router). Then simply run a ping to an outside source. I ping cnet.com as I know they will respond. You can run a tracert to cnet.com and it will show your time between hops and where the issue may be... Source: 12 months ago

• What is the best place to get unbiased news?

  Another website I remember scoring well was CNET.com, which was random, but a bonus if you're into tech stuff. In addition to tech stuff (which is of course their main bread & butter), they'll cover things going on in the news (ex: legislation, Covid, world news) as big things come up. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is a personal blog the best way to promote your Software Projects in 2022?

  I wonder about this too...because of the competitiveness of getting eyeballs on the internet--you need 200,000 impressions/view per day with Google AdSense to your site to make around $70K / year--I tend to think that it is very difficult to get your blog viewed, given how much traffic-driven websites really need the views. Thus, you should probably try to use a downloadable software website like amazon.com or... Source: almost 2 years ago

• NASA Mars Rover Spots Spaghetti-Like Object

  That's why you're reading it on cnet.com and not nasa.gov. Source: almost 2 years ago

Better Uptime mentions (5)

• Uptime Monitoring

  I use https://betteruptime.com/ for all of my websites with various checks. You can do keyword checks, status error codes and get push notifications + phone calls if it is down for x number of time. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there any way to get SMS notifications when Internet at our office goes off?

  For what you are needing, I would try BetterUptime. Source: over 2 years ago

• Plex Server Availability Status Page

  I am using https://betteruptime.com/ if it matters. Source: over 2 years ago

• AI devops squad to the rescue: How to use voice AI to make your site reliability engineering more efficient

  // external functions are called from your Dasha conversation in the body of main.dsl file // external functions can be used for calculations, data storage, in this case, to // call external services with HTTPS requests. You can call an external function from DSL // in your node.js file and have it do literally anything you can do with Node.js. // External function. Acknowledge an incident in... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• A Tour of Website Monitoring Tools

  Better Uptime, one of the newer alternatives, combines incident management and monitoring in one tool. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago