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Hi.
I'm going to add you to https://www.supermonitoring.com/blog/the-updated-list-of-web...
And hoping you won't move to https://www.supermonitoring.com/blog/website-monitoring-serv... anytime soon. ;)
Good luck!
The tech part is the easiest here. Marketing a website monitoring service is really hard. That is why there are more than 70 providers known to have shut down: https://www.supermonitoring.com/blog/website-monitoring-serv...
I think there numbers are large because of two things:
1. People are not aware that there are so many services already. It's not enough to google for "website monitoring" to get the entire picture.
2. Entrepreneurs think that such service is a piece of cake to implement and to maintain. But the first 50 customers verify that wrong assumption.
Plus, with that numerous competition, led by a few giants (like Pingdom with 700,000+ customers), it's very hard to get noticed.
This market is crowded like hell. Check the two posts I'm linking below.
https://www.supermonitoring.com/blog/the-updated-list-of-web...
https://www.supermonitoring.com/blog/website-monitoring-serv...