Configuring the website monitoring goals for your web site
How long time ago did you monitor the personal website (and also network and servers)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in some mater? Do you think your website is available at this moment? Now I think that you are opening your browser, pasting the URL and checking if it is still available. Seems like everything is perfect… Well maybe the page was just stored in the Firefox cache? Performing a full refresh… Phew, lucky this time! But are you convinced it was available yesterday, last week, or last month? Every provider will grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I would choose to know this guaranteed.
Imagine that your potential customers visit your website and it’s unexpectedly not available. They see strange error string or even white page. How do you suspect, how many of clients will depart and will never come back? Well, maybe some of them will do an attempt later. But anyway, people prefer to make their purchases on the reliable and secure websites. If you are running some kind of online business, you better be sure, your visitors can navigate your website and receive data, services, or products they are looking for. Any particular downtime means loss of customers that, in its turn, means loss of business.
Someone may tell that it is life, everything happens, and you can’t completely avoid downtimes. That is half-way correct. You can not completely elude them, but you can surely minimize them! The earlier you get information about the error, the sooner you can take the action to fix it. Email your website provider, check some network services, etc.
For this purpose, you may want to try ProtoMon. It is the server monitoring software created to automatically navigate your website, servers, and network computers on a timely basis and in no time alert you if any problems befallen. It takes just a couple of minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring tool.
You can use the monitors of the different types to do monitoring tasks for all aspects of your website. First of all you may wish to add a ICMP monitor. This permits you to feel certain that the host network computer is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web server, download some web page and even check its content with the easy-to-use filters which support the boolean expressions. By the way, ProtoMon can use the proxy server, and connect to the password protected zones of the network. Also you may want to monitor your network using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you can get email messages from the customers and they can receive messages from you.
ProtoMon can launch the scripts on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then take and parse their output. This permits you to check almost any parameter of your website including the CPU load, memory usage and much more.
If any problem found, the monitoring program will let you know by showing the pop-up dialog, playing the sound file, launching some file or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the selected addresses.
This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your PC. You are able to look at it when you need, using a useful viewer what includes a nice-looking graph which supports zooming and panning and descriptive hints for even better comfort. Also you may wish to enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon remotely, and review the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with any web browser.
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