You spend days and nights on your new brainchild. Your friends have forgotten how you look like because you are so busy with your new website. Then some time passes, and your brilliant ideas have finally been materialized — soon you will be earning hundreds, thousands, or even millions.
The more time and money you invest in your start-up, the more important the question of reputation and trustworthiness is. There is a basic rule: your e-business must be accessible every second to every Internet user from all over the world. Downtime for any reason is completely unacceptable. And that’s why you should consider runnings website performance tests and signing up for a web site monitoring account.
Let’s see how website monitoring works. As I’ve already said, your website must be accessible every second to every Internet user. To ensure your site is available throughout the world, website monitoring services set up special servers, called Monitoring Agents, in data centers on all the continents (excluding Antarctica 
). The monitoring agents check your web server with a set frequency. Quite a lot of stuff can be monitored: HTTP/HTTPS servers, FTP, POP3/SMTP, IMAP, DNS, ICMP, UDP, video streaming servers and much more. If one or more monitoring agents report downtime, an alert message for the webmaster is generated. Currently, notification options include:
- regular and cell phones
- sms
- fax
- pagers
- …
Most advanced website monitoring services are capable of doing multi-step actions: for example, monitoring agents can login to your clients’ zone, choose a DVD in your online-store, then go to the shopping cart and “buy” it, ensuring availability of all the payment steps for an ordinary customer.
Today web site monitoring companies offer a wide range of services. The pricing also varies greatly. Here on fastmonitoring.com I’ll try to provide as much info as possible to help you choose your web site monitoring service.
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Good information here. Something which we take for granted but we should take website monitoring more seriously than most of us do now. Thanks for sharing. Thanks also for visiting my blog.
Peter Lee
Posted on December 31st, 2008 at 3:23 pm
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Posted on February 11th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 at 6:04 am
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 at 11:36 am
Just as you say website uptime is important. Now if you just need to monitor your website via HTTP or HTTPS there is a very easy website uptime monitoring service called Dotcom-Monitor. It’s really nice, friendly and give a great overview of your website’s uptime as well as performance.
Posted on September 5th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
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