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How do I monitor a webpage to get alerts when it's content changes?

This weekend we missed out of tickets for Glastonbury Festival for the first time in 6 years.  

As well as the official resale's, they also have unofficial sales of small batches of tickets on this URL: https://glastonbury.seetickets.com/

Please can someone recommend to me a website I can use to get email alerts for when websites change.

I was signing up to www.followthatpage.com but then discovered they may only check every 20 minutes which means there is a big gap where lots of other people may get alerts first depending on when they setup the alert, is there other solutions available with shorter intervals OR, I do have my own hosting space and beginner/Intermediate web experience with WordPress, could I setup my own basic checking solution, maybe there is a plugin?

I guess it's about getting the right balance of not hitting a server too often and getting blacklisted too.
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Hi David,

Web Secretary looks perfect for us to use, thanks for the quick response.
With google alerts, you may not get results fast enough.  There are plenty of online resources for this such as https://changetower.com/uses/ and most have free options for a minimum amount of urls to track and nothing to install.
Yep. WebSec is old code + works so well.

I've been using it... geez... seems like somewhere around 20 years... It just works...