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 [...]
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 [...]
While surfing the web, I encountered a ready solution (written in Perl) that can be used to check websites’ latency. How to install: Install Net::HTTP, and copy the shell script to a suitable location.
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 [...]
While surfing Wikipedia I’ve found a nice attempt to embrace the major players at website monitoring market and compare them. A table contains details of 33 most famous companies providing web site monitoring services, both commercial and free. The table has been created on November, 13, and by now it has descriptions for about 40% [...]
Spammers have evolved to perpetrate some pretty complicated schemes to get their wares (and warez) to large audiences. Recently they’ve shown sophistication beyond simple mailings by breaking CAPTCHA codes, enlisting decoy social networking sites and blogs, and even some search engine optimization. It’s a tangled web, the intricate knitting started with exploiting CAPTCHA (Completely Automated [...]
Today I’ve collected a list of most important website monitoring companies, that provide both commercial and free services. Dotcom-Monitor – Affordable Web site monitoring and testing for individual sites, applications, and networks. We offer load testing, network monitoring and free website monitoring trials. WebSitePulse – Remote web server and website monitoring with instant alerts via [...]
Several useful network tools — this list will be updated every week. Gtrace is a traceroute visualization tool that uses a combination of methods to either determine or guess at the physical location of a node in the traceroute path. It is flexible enough to support addition of new databases, heuristics to map IP addresses [...]
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 [...]