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StatusCake vs updown.io: What are the differences?
StatusCake: Feature Rich Uptime Monitoring, Domain Monitoring, SSL Monitoring and a whole lot more. Monitoring a website is one thing – finding the best way to alert you to downtime another. At StatusCake we give you as many options as possible to decide when & how often you’re contacted. Whether it’s by email, SMS, push notifications for iOS & Android or integration with third party apps including Zapier and PagerDuty – you decide how you want to be alerted and when!; updown.io: HTTP monitoring solution with a clean UI and cheap and simple pricing. updown is an online service that checks your website's status by periodically sending an HTTP HEAD request to the URL of your choice. It then notifies you by email or sms when your website is not responding correctly.
StatusCake and updown.io belong to "Website Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by StatusCake are:
- Truly Global Monitoring
- SureAlert – No False Positives
- Domain Monitoring
On the other hand, updown.io provides the following key features:
- One-click sign in
- Fast checks
- Email/SMS alerts
"Easy to use and reliable" is the primary reason why developers consider StatusCake over the competitors, whereas "Nice and clean UI" was stated as the key factor in picking updown.io.
OpenGov, Reviewable, and Vizzbuzz are some of the popular companies that use StatusCake, whereas updown.io is used by Bit Zesty, Trustroots, and Figure POS. StatusCake has a broader approval, being mentioned in 34 company stacks & 6 developers stacks; compared to updown.io, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
We needed a monitoring tool to track application uptime, response time and provide a public status page.
After looking at several options including the big ones like Pingdom and Pingometer, we went with updown.io. Their pricing model allowed us to pay for exactly what we needed (number of endpoints and frequency) without selling us anything we weren't going to use.
Their interface is easy to use, service has been rock solid and their public status pages look great.
Pros of StatusCake
- Easy to use and reliable14
- Free tier12
- Public Reporting6
- Domain monitoring4
- Cheaper3
- SSL Certificate Monitoring3
- No false positives3
- Group Notification3
- Great Customer Support2
- WhoIs Domain Monitoring1
- Real Browser Testing1
- Malware and Virus Scanning1
- Multiple User Accounts1
- Mobile App1
- Full Featured API1
Pros of updown.io
- Nice and clean UI14
- Cheaper11
- Super easy setup8
- Better than pingdom6
- Great support6
- Ridiculously simple pricing2
- SSL certificate checks2
