Web Site Monitoring

2007-04-17 10:41:55

( Web Hosting-SEO-Web Design )



Having your website or e-mail crash without you knowing it can lose you and your company a lot of customers and money. Web site monitoring helps to solve this problem.

Web site monitoring checks your website’s performance to see if it is running properly. It allows you to instantly handle the problem by sending you alerts, so that your site’s downtime is minimized. It also helps you keep your customers and maintain your search engine rankings.

Web site monitoring companies usually offer the following basic services:
• HTTP: checks the performance of your web pages and make your sure that no changes were made by people other than you
• HTTPS: monitors your HTTPS service
• PING: checks the accessibility of your website using your internet address
• SMTP: monitors the status of your outgoing mail
• POP3: monitors the status of your incoming mail
• FTP: checks your FTP server

There are different ways that your website monitoring service can inform you of any problems that your web site encounters. Alerts can be sent in real-time via e-mail, cell phone, or instant message.

Some website monitoring services also offer compilation of reports and keeping them in archives. Reports contain your website’s connection time, download time, and response time. This serves as proof of the performance of your web host or web server, and can even help you when you are making a claim for credit.

Some systems can even recognize some error signatures, to help you identify and troubleshoot the error.

Other things to consider when choosing your website monitoring service are the frequency of monitoring and geographic distribution of monitoring servers. Uninterrupted monitoring using redundant servers ensures you that your website’s performance is intact. Meanwhile, multiple servers in different locations can monitor your site from different places all over the world, which is vital if you are running an international business.

The prices of these website monitoring services vary. Some website monitoring services offer a free demo version so you can test their service before deciding to subscribe.


All rights Reserved © Tradenet Services srl
Do not duplicate or redistribute in any form.