Apparently finding and setting up monitoring is too problematic for all of the people who are running their freshly-created startups and e-commerce shops without any monitoring.
For someone who does not know HTTP from HTTPs or all the different kinds of probes, reading about them and making decisions about what to set up is a time investment. Complicated might be the wrong word.
All you really need to do is to provide a domain name and an email address for alerts to get basic monitoring set up. My goal is to set up monitoring with zero decisions under 30 seconds.
Your page will convert better if you embed your 2-field form right there, instead of the call-to-action button. Even better if you make it a 1 field form (and ask for the notification-receiving email after submit).
Apparently finding and setting up monitoring is too problematic for all of the people who are running their freshly-created startups and e-commerce shops without any monitoring.
For someone who does not know HTTP from HTTPs or all the different kinds of probes, reading about them and making decisions about what to set up is a time investment. Complicated might be the wrong word.
All you really need to do is to provide a domain name and an email address for alerts to get basic monitoring set up. My goal is to set up monitoring with zero decisions under 30 seconds.
Getting pretty close with nixmonitor.com