Control D
Control D is a customizable DNS filtering and traffic redirection platform that leverages Secure DNS protocols like DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-QUIC, with support for Legacy DNS.
- Block malicious threats
- Block unwanted types of content network wide (ads & trackers, IoT telemetry, adult content, socials, and more)
- Deploy in minutes on fleets of devices using RMM
- Manage clients using sub-organizations
- Gain visibility on network events and usage patterns, with client level granularity
- Re-route traffic via proxies (through DNS) for improved privacy and security
- Enjoy superior UX and simplicity
Think of it as your personal Authoritative DNS resolver for the entire Internet that gives you granular control over what domains get resolved, redirected or blocked.
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UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot is a website monitoring service with a forever free plan that lets you register with just an email and monitor up to 50 websites, servers, or keywords with 5-minute intervals. Setup takes only a few clicks.
For faster checks and advanced features, paid plans offer 1-minute or 30-second intervals, along with SSL certificate, domain expiry, and heartbeat (cron job) monitoring. You can also create up to 100 status pages, customize them to match your brand, protect them with a password, and allow subscribers to receive updates.
Get notified instantly via email, SMS, voice calls, or integrations with Slack, Zapier, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Telegram, Webhooks, Discord, Mattermost, Pushbullet, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Pushover, and more. Mobile push notifications are available through the iOS and Android apps.
Other features include maintenance windows, incident tracking with root cause analysis, tags, comments, and filters. Share account with other team members.
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Ad And Stuff Blocker
Ad And Stuff Blocker (AASB) is an ad and other stuff content blocker specifically for Safari on Mac OSX and iOS. Its goal is to provide the best "out of the box" experience. There are no fancy statistics or fancy UI - just a simple UI to whitelist websites, which hopefully you won't need. AASB for Safari on iOS provides a comparable experience. Ad And Stuff VPN Content Filter (AASVPN) for Android uses the VPN feature to optionally block ads and porn in all apps, not just web browsers. Think of it as a way to have your own hosts file for Android. To do this, it intercepts DNS (how names like google.com have translated to IP addresses) requests only. If the request is for a domain in the hosts database, then returns an Unknown reply to the calling app. Otherwise, it forwards the request to the DNS server, which is OpenDNS for the time being, but can be changed in the preferences.
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