When my Internet connection goes down want to be alerted via text

[ecommerceprofit]

Anyone know how to do this with software or a service? In essence, if my Internet connection goes down at the office I'm looking to get a text alert on my cell phone the minute it happens.

Any ideas would be appreciated greatly.

[brotherhood of LAN]

Yes, there are services out there (without naming any). A quick Google would help you.

[ecommerceprofit]

Understood...that is where I'm having trouble though...finding them...how about "industry keywords" - not names of services...I am keep getting services and software that monitor uptime - don't care about that...want real time notification when my work connection goes down. I bet I will find eventually....just trying to save some time by searching the brains here.

[brotherhood of LAN]

They usually fall under the collective name of website monitoring

[lucy24]

Now, wait. Are you asking about your own connection, or your site's connection? Or are they the same thing (for example if you're running your own server)?

[brotherhood of LAN]

You know, I'd just assumed it was a public web server, but now I'm glad you asked for clarification as it looks like I've misunderstood.

[ecommerceprofit]

Thanks for the replies. Nope not my web site (there are a ton of these services) but my actual Internet connection used for browsing the Internet, etc.

[ecommerceprofit]

For future readers of this thread. Found under "network monitoring" - "server monitoring" would work too "I believe" - just need to make it work with my dynamic ip address.

[cmendla]

@ecommerceforprofit - There are services that are amazingly inexpensive that will allow you to tie a domain name to a dynamic IP. Less than about 10 bucks a year. I think that might be what you need.