Deploying the website monitoring jobs for your web site
How much time ago was you looking at the company’s website (and also network services and servers)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in any mater? Do you think your website is operating at this moment? Now I forespeak that you are launching your web-browser, typing the URL and watching if it is still present. Looks like everything is alright… Well may it be the page is just found in the Opera cache? Doing a full reload… Phew, lucky this time! But are you sure it was responding yesterday, last week, or last month? Every provider will promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I would prefer to know this guaranteed.
Imagine that your potential customers opening your website and it is accidentally down. They look at abstruse error string or even empty page. How do you think, how many of clients will depart and will never return? Well, maybe some of them will perform an attempt later. But anyway, people like to place their purchases on the stable and secure websites. When you are running any sort of online business, you better be sure, your customers can reach your website and receive data, services, and products they are searching for. Any unnoticed error means loss of visitors that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.
Someone can say that this is life, downtimes happens, and you can not completely avoid them. This is partly true. You cannot completely evade them, but you can for sure minimize them! The sooner you will know about any problem, the sooner you can take some action and fix it. Contact your hosting provider, restart some network services, etc.
For this purpose, you may want to use ProtoMon. It is the server monitoring software that will automatically check your network, servers and website on a timely basis and immediately advise you if any failures betided. It needs just a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring tool.
You are able to create the monitors of the different kinds to check every aspect of your server. First of all you may want to add a ping monitor. This enables you to feel certain that the host network computer is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download some web page and optionally validate its content using the text filters which support the boolean expressions. Besides, the software can make use of the proxy server, and connect to the secured zones of the website. Also you may wish to check your servers using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you can get e-mail messages from the customers and they can receive your answers.
ProtoMon can start the batch files on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then get and parse their output. This enables you to monitor almost each aspect of your server including the memory usage, CPU load and so on.
If any error found, the monitoring software can inform you by displaying the pop-up dialog, playing some sound file, executing some script or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the specified recipients.
This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of all monitors on your computer. You can look at it when you need, using a useful viewer what includes a nice-looking chart with support of zooming and panning and detailed notes for even better usability. And you can enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from your network, and view the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using your favorite web browser.
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