Configuring the website monitoring tasks for the company’s website

When last time was you checking the company’s website (and also servers and network services)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in some mater? Are you sure your website is working at this moment? Now I presume that you are launching your browser, entering the URL and monitoring if it is still available. Looks like everything is good… But maybe the page was just stored in the browser cache? Doing a full refresh… Being in luck today! But are you sure it was responding yesterday, two weeks ago, or last month? Most hosting providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I think you would prefer to know that guaranteed.

Imagine that your potential clients came to your website when it’s unexpectedly not responding. They see strange error message or simply empty page. How do you think, how many of them will come away and will never visit again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people prefer to place their purchases on the steady and secure websites. If you are owning any type of Internet business, you better be sure, your visitors can navigate your server and get info, stuff, and products they are searching for. Any unexpected downtime means loss of clients that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

One can say that it is life, everything happens, and you can not entirely avoid downtimes. That is partly true. You can not completely avoid them, but you can surely minimize them! The earlier you will know about the issue, the precedently you can take some action and correct it. Notify your network provider, check some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to use ProtoMon. It is the server monitoring software that will automatically navigate your website, servers, and network computers periodically and in no time inform you when any problems found. It takes only a couple of moments to download, install, configure, and start using this monitoring software.

You can use the monitors of the different kinds to monitor all aspects of your website. As a first step you can add a ping monitor. This enables you to be sure that the host network system is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web-server, download any web page and optionally validate the content with the text filters which support the logical expressions. Besides, the program is able to make use of the proxy server, and connect to the secured sections of the website. Also you may wish to monitor your fileserver using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to ensure that you can receive mail letters from your clients and they can receive your answers.

ProtoMon can launch the scripts on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then take and check their output. This permits you to monitor almost every parameter of your network including the memory usage, CPU load and much more.

When any problem happened, the monitoring program can notify you by showing the pop-up message, playing the sound file, starting any file or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the desired recipients.

This network monitoring software saves full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your PC. You may see it when you need, using the useful viewer which includes a well-looking diagram with support of zooming and panning and explicit notes for even better usefulness. Also you may wish to enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and look at the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with any web browser.

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