Implementing the website monitoring objectives for the personal website

How recently was you verifying the personal website (and also servers and network)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in some way? Can you be sure your website is running at the moment? Now I suppose that you are opening your browser, pasting the URL and watching if it’s still usable. Seems like everything is good… But may it be the page was just found in the IE cache? Doing a complete reload… Phew, lucky for now! But are you sure it was available yesterday, last week, or last month? Most providers promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I would like to know this guaranteed.

Imagine that your prospective clients opening your website in time it’s unexpectedly down. They look at abstruse error message or simply blank page. How do you think, how many of customers will go away and will never come back? Well, maybe some of them will perform an attempt later. But anyway, people like to place their purchases on the stable and safe servers. When you are doing some sort of online business, you better be sure, your clients can reach your website and receive info, stuff, and products they are looking for. Any unnoticed failure means loss of visitors that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

You may say that this is life, everything happens, and you cannot totally avoid downtimes. That is half-way true. You can’t entirely elude them, but you can of course minimize them! The sooner you notified about the issue, the precedently you will be able to take some action to resolve it. Ask your hosting provider, check some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to use ProtoMon. This is the server monitoring software intended to automatically review your website, servers, and network computers in a specified periods and instantly advise you when any failures occurred. It needs just a few minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this monitoring software.

You are able to create the monitors of the different types to do monitoring jobs for all aspects of your server. As a first step you can create a ping monitor. This enables you to feel certain that the host network system is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web server, download any web page and additionally validate the content using the text filters with the support of the logical expressions. By the way, the software can use the proxy server, and connect to the secured sections of the network. Also you may want to control your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you can get email letters from the customers and they can get answers from you.

ProtoMon can start the scripts on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then receive and analyze their output. This enables you to check almost every parameter of your website including the memory usage, CPU load and much more.

If any issue happened, the monitoring program will inform you by showing the pop-up window, playing some sound file, executing some application or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the selected addresses.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your computer. You may look at it locally, using a useful viewer which includes a nice-looking graph which supports panning and zooming and descriptive explanations for even better comfort. And you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and view the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics with the favorite web-browser.

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