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.
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Experts say, 20-minute long broadband connection to Internet is enough for a malefactor to break into an unprotected PC. Just imagine what can happen if a corporate network is connected to the Internet without proper protection. Infected workstations and stolen intellectual property are the most predictable consequences but things can go even worse.
Installing a firewall [...]
Often we need to measure web server performance. There are various reasons for this, but the most frequent one is modification of configuration files. Quite often we look for ways of improving web server speed and performance: tuning up nginx, apache or lighttpd we can get a significant performance boost. But finally we come to [...]
Perhaps some of you guys noticed a new button that appeared on my blog a few days ago. From now my blog is monitored every 30 minutes and my uptime statistics is available for public. Want to get a similar button? That’s easy. Check Dotcom-Monitor’s Uptime Meter, you don’t even need to sign up to [...]
Often we need to measure web server performance. There are various reasons for this, but the most frequent one is modification of configuration files. Quite often we look for ways of improving web server speed and performance: tuning up nginx, apache or lighttpd we can get a significant performance boost. But finally we come to [...]
The switch to IPv6 is on. In June 2008, the U.S. federal government, which is arguably the world’s largest single enterprise, required that all its executive agencies add IPv6 to their network backbones. The European Commission recently set an IPv6 target adoption rate of 25 percent by 2010, and the chairman of the [...]
In hierarchical structure of Internet DNS servers may be called nerve knots which directly influence the whole existence of the Internet. What can threaten their “health”? What can put them out of action? And can one protect DNS servers? Before we answer the questions, let’s see what task DNS servers carry out. In a few [...]
Kaspersky Laboratories published an annual report where most actual security threats are reviewed and analyzed. Experts say, the most current trend is the development of a complex global virus ‘eco-system’. Almost 90% of malware were produced for the purpose of subsequent selling. Chinese hackers and virus writers made the major part of the malware, however [...]
As a rule, commercial website monitoring services offer so many features and capabilities that an ordinary user may feel trapped in realm of buttons and unknown terms when trying to master website monitoring control panel. Monitoring usage may turn into a nightmare for an unexperienced webmaster. I fully understand that there are people who’d like [...]
Jeremy Mayes, the author of the PPC Discussions blog, told about his two-month experiment: Jeremy tracked every AdWords ad he clicked and created a detailed statistics for every click. He managed to click more than 1000 ads during these two months. Along with many interesting data he found out one astonishing fact: about 11% of [...]