Setting up the website monitoring goals for your web-site
How long time ago did you verify your website (and also servers and network)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in some way? Can you be sure your website is operating at the moment? Now I presume that you are executing your web-browser, entering the URL and looking if the website is still present. Looks like everything is perfect… But may it be the web-page was just found in the IE cache? Performing a full reload… Being in luck for now! But are you convinced it was responding yesterday, two weeks ago, or past month? Most hosting providers promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I would prefer to know this guaranteed.
Imagine that your potential clients came to your website when it’s unexpectedly down. They see some error text or even blank page. How do you suspect, how many of customers will slip away and will never come again? Well, maybe some of them will do an attempt later. But anyway, people would rather place their purchases on the stable and safe websites. If you are owning some kind of Internet business, you better be sure, your visitors can navigate your website and receive data, services, or products they are need. Any unexpected downtime leads to loss of clients that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.
Somebody can tell that this is life, downtimes happens, and nobody can totally avoid them. This is half-way correct. You can’t totally evade them, but you can surely minimize them! The precedently you get information about any issue, the sooner you will be able to take the action and correct it. Notify your hosting provider, check some network services, etc.
For this purpose, you may want to use ProtoMon. It’s a server monitoring software designed to automatically monitor your network, servers and website in some intervals and immediately inform you when some problems happened. It takes only a couple of moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring tool.
You can create the monitors of the different types to perform monitoring jobs for every aspect of your website. First of all you may wish to add a ping monitor. It enables you to be sure that the host network system is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web server, download some web page and even check the content using the powerful filters which support the boolean expressions. Besides, ProtoMon is able to make use of the proxy server, and connect to the password protected zones of the network. Also you may want to monitor your fileserver using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you are able to receive e-mail messages from the customers and they do get your answers.
ProtoMon can execute the scripts on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then receive and parse their output. This allows you to monitor almost each aspect of your website including the CPU load, memory usage and so on.
When any issue found, the monitoring tool can inform you by displaying the pop-up dialog, playing some sound file, launching some file or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the specified recipients.
This network monitoring software saves full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your computer. You can see it locally, using the useful viewer what includes a nice-looking graph which supports panning and zooming and descriptive explanations for even better handiness. Or you may wish to use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and see the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with your favorite web browser.
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