Free article Directory Patisse Riedu GolfWeb Articles directory is a free article submission service

When last time did you look at your website (and also servers and network services)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring works in some way? Can you be sure your website is operating at the moment? Now I presume that you are executing your browser, entering the URL and checking if it is still there. Seems like the things are okay… Well maybe the page was just stored in the IE cache? Performing a full reload… Being in luck for now! But can you be sure it was available yesterday, two weeks ago, or last month? Most hosting providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I think you would prefer to know this for sure.

Imagine that your prospective customers opening your website in time it’s unexpectedly not responding. They look at complicated error text or simply empty page. How do you suspect, how many of them will leave and will never come back? Well, maybe some of them will perform an attempt later. But anyway, people like to do their purchases on the steady and secure websites. When you are doing any type of Internet business, you need to be sure, your customers can navigate your website and receive information, stuff, or products they are need. Any particular failure means loss of customers that, in its turn, means loss of business.

Somebody may say that it is life, downtimes happens, and you can’t entirely avoid them. This is half-way correct. You can’t completely escape them, but you can for sure minimize them! The earlier you notified about any problem, the earlier you will be able to take the action and correct it. Ask your network provider, check some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may wish to use ProtoMon. It’s a server monitoring software designed to automatically load your website, servers, and network computers from time to time and instantly advise you when any problems happened. It needs only a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this monitoring software.

You will be able to create the monitors of the different kinds to control all aspects of your website. As a first step you can use a ICMP monitor. It allows you to feel certain that the host network system is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download any web page and even control its content with the powerful filters which support the logical expressions. By the way, the software is able to make use of the proxy server, and connect to the secured parts of the website. Also you may want to check your servers using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to ensure that you can receive e-mail messages from the clients and they can get messages from you.

ProtoMon can launch the batch files on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then receive and analyze their output. This permits you to monitor almost each aspect of your website including the memory usage, CPU load and so on.

If any error happened, the monitoring software can let you know by displaying the pop-up message, playing the sound file, executing some file or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the specified recipients.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your computer. You can look at it at any time, using the statistics viewer which includes a nice-looking diagram which supports panning and zooming and descriptive explanations for even better comfort. Also you may wish to enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon remotely, and look at the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with any web-browser.