hostnag vs Site24x7
Site24x7 is the full suite from Zoho: website, DNS, SSL, domain, mail round-trip, blocklist and heartbeat monitors from 130+ locations, beside server, network, APM, RUM and log monitoring, with an On-Premise Poller for the internal side of a network and MSP plans. The same rows on one timeline without the suite: no collector, no per-monitor licence arithmetic, and a free tier for 20 hosts.
14 days of Pro to start, then free for 20 hosts. No card, nothing to install.
Side by side
Site24x7 read from its public documentation on 2026-09-17. Tell us if it changed.| What breaks | Site24x7 | hostnag |
|---|---|---|
| A host goes downwebsite, API, VPN, mail, gateway | Yes | Yes |
| Site24x7: Website, DNS server, port, ping and mail server monitors from 130+ locations. | ||
| A certificate expiresdays-before thresholds, daily inside the last window | Yes | Yes |
| Site24x7: A notification a configurable number of days before the certificate expires. | ||
| A domain lapsesregistration expiry from RDAP | Yes | Yes |
| Site24x7: A Domain Expiry monitor polled daily, alerting 30 days ahead by default. | ||
| A certificate is swappedfingerprint changed, wrong host, chain not trusted | Yes | Yes |
| Site24x7: A SHA-1 fingerprint threshold for tampering, hostname verification, chain validation, OCSP revocation and a blocklisted-CA check. | ||
| A DNS record driftsexpected answer missing or changed | Yes | Yes |
| Site24x7: Answer validation on every lookup type checks the resolved records against the values you expect, up to 10 per monitor. | ||
| An ISP link dropsthe public address from several locations, by ping or a TCP port, confirmed by a ping from an internal device | Unknown | Yes |
| Site24x7: Ping monitors watch externally and the On-Premise Poller watches internally; nothing documents one monitor that combines the two for an office or ISP link.hostnag: external and internal | ||
| Mail stops being deliveredMX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and blocklists, at the expiry cadence of your plan | Partly | Yes |
| Site24x7: A Mail Delivery monitor sends through SMTP and reads back over POP or IMAP, and an RBL monitor checks a host or IP against 20 blocklists; nothing documents SPF, DKIM or DMARC checks. | ||
| A scheduled job stops runningcron, backups, workers: a heartbeat that goes quiet | Yes | Yes |
| Site24x7: A unique ping URL per heartbeat monitor with Trouble and Down thresholds for a missing ping. | ||
| Your nameservers or registrar changenameservers, registrar, DNSSEC, certificate issuer, DNS answers, redirect targets | Partly | Yes |
| Site24x7: DNS answer validation covers NS records; the Domain Expiry monitor documents the expiry date only, not a registrar change. | ||
| A vendor you depend on has an incidenttheir status page read for an outage or degraded state, the incident named | Unknown | Yes |
| Site24x7: Nothing documents reading a vendor's status page.hostnag: read from their own status page | ||
UNKNOWN means their documentation did not say either way on the day we read it. PARTLY is covered with a limit noted in the cell.
What Site24x7 has that we don't
- Server, network, APM, RUM and log monitoring in the same product, with an On-Premise Poller for the internal side of a network.
- A mail round-trip monitor that sends a message and reads it back, and an RBL monitor for IPs.
- OCSP revocation and blocklisted-CA checks on certificates, 130+ locations and checks down to 10 seconds.
Switching
- 01List your monitors from the Site24x7 API; each is one row.
- 02Put them in a CSV with at least the columns type and target (name, interval, port, keyword, expected_status and record_type are optional; the import dialog links a template) and upload it in the import dialog.
- 03Website monitors become http, port monitors tcp, DNS server monitors dns with their record_type, SSL/TLS certificate monitors tls_cert, Domain Expiry monitors domain_registration; heartbeat monitors become heartbeats with a new hostnag ping URL to point the job at.
- 04Ping (ICMP) monitors carry over as Ping monitors, run from hostnag's own probes.
- 05RBL monitors become a mail monitor on the domain, which checks its MX addresses against four zones daily; server, network, APM, RUM and mail round-trip monitors have no counterpart in hostnag.
- 06Check intervals snap up to the nearest hostnag preset (1, 5, 15, 60, 360 or 1440 minutes).
- 07Monitors are created up to your plan's limit; the rest stay listed in the preview so nothing is lost silently.
Pricing
A free plan monitors the uptime of up to 50 resources with email alerts; Web Uptime is $9 a month paid annually, Web Perf $36, infrastructure Lite $9 and Professional $42, MSP $54, with basic monitors sold in packs on top (10 for $10 on Professional) and Enterprise from $625.Free
$0/ mo$0/ yrFor your own handful of hosts.
- Monitors
- 20
- Beacons
- 2
- Groups
- 3
- Status pages
- 1
- Seats
- 3
- Every
- 5min
- Locations
- 1
- History
- 30days
- Channels
- Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Webhook
- More
- No packs
Pro
$19/ mo$190/ yrFor a team's sites, APIs and gateways.
- Monitors
- 100
- Beacons
- 10
- Groups
- 25
- Status pages
- 10
- Seats
- 10
- Every
- 1min
- Locations
- 3
- History
- 90days
- Channels
- Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Webhook, PagerDuty, Opsgenie
- More
- Packs of 100 monitors at $15 a month, up to 4; packs of 10 beacons at $10 a month, up to 9
Business
$79/ mo$790/ yrFor many groups: clients, products or offices.
- Monitors
- 500
- Beacons
- 100
- Groups
- ∞
- Status pages
- ∞
- Seats
- ∞
- Every
- 1min
- Locations
- 5
- History
- 365days
- Channels
- Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Webhook, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, SMS
- More
- Packs of 100 monitors at $15 a month, as many as you need; packs of 10 beacons at $10 a month, as many as you need
Sources
Read on 2026-09-17.- https://www.site24x7.com/site24x7-pricing.html
- https://www.site24x7.com/help/admin/adding-a-monitor/ssl-certificate-monitor.html
- https://www.site24x7.com/help/admin/adding-a-monitor/domain-expiry-monitor.html
- https://www.site24x7.com/help/admin/adding-a-monitor/dns-monitor.html
- https://www.site24x7.com/help/admin/adding-a-monitor/rbl-monitor.html
- https://www.site24x7.com/help/heartbeat/
- https://www.site24x7.com/help/admin/adding-a-monitor/mail-server-rtt.html
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