Website Uptime Monitoring: Website Lifeguard

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Web Hosting-SEO-Web Design )



WHEN AVAILABILITY MATTERS

If you have a website, being available to surfers is all that matters. This is particularly true if your website is a source of income for you and your family. When your site is down, your clients cannot get to your site and you cannot make transactions, which means lost profits on your part.

Whether you are a small E-commerce company or a big online business, you will benefit from website uptime monitoring services. This type of website monitoring service checks if your website is accessible to surfers and notifies you immediately if you are not.

Depending on the type of service you have subscribed to, website uptime monitoring can be done round-the-clock, or at specified times. You can also prescribe the monitoring intervals, or how often the checking will be done in a given day. Of course the more frequent the website monitoring service is performed, the higher the charges you have to pay.

PERFORMANCE CHECK

Website uptime monitoring services are not limited to checking website availability. It also checks your site’s performance against specified parameters, and evaluates whether it is performing up to standards. This is equally important because while your website may be accessible, if the links and other functions are not working or are very slow, then for all practical intents and purposes, your website is down as well.

The great thing about website uptime monitoring is its vigilance. Once downtime is detected, it automatically informs you of the problem so you can inform your hosting services, or check your servers for problems. Being made aware of the downtime early on enables you to resolve the problem immediately and get back online in the shortest possible time.

Of course there might be instances when the problem might actually be on the side of the website uptime monitoring company. They see your site is unavailable when in fact it is their servers that have problems. To minimize this error, some website uptime monitoring companies employ a system that confirms the downtime from another location.


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