IP address change in Seattle and Dallas monitoring servers
We are planning to upgrade our monitoring servers in Seattle and Dallas to a new high end server on October 11, 2010 00:00 AM PDT. So, if you have IP restriction in your server, you have to reconfigure the newer server ip address in the allowed ip list. This is to make sure that our requests come through properly. The new ip addresses of our server is as follows: Seattle : 67.228.222.84 Dallas : 208.43.202.88 Kindly make the necessary configuration changes to ensure our monitoring requests hit your
Site24x7 update: Revamped web client and more
We had been working on a new look for the Site24x7 web client over the past few weeks. Sometime last month, we had also given a sneak peek of the interface to our blog readers. Now we’ve just rolled out this new interface to all our user accounts. So what’s new in the new interface? Well, to start with, you might notice our brand new logo and the overall green theme which is in sync with our website. But that’s not all. There are overall improvements to usability and navigation which will let you
Analyze and Improve Website Performance using Web Page Analyzer Tool
One of the recent trends I have noticed over a period of time is that many websites and web-based applications have started obsessing about their website performance and uptime. In order to understand this obsession better, I think we need to look at two key factors: Attention Span of the User Google Effect Attention Span of the User Many theories and scientific studies have been conducted on how data is being delivered to us via Internet and how it has changed the way we search and assimilate information.
Updating an Existing Website Monitor to Add More Locations
In a couple of previous blog posts , I showed you how to add multiple locations for a new website monitor. The advantage of using multi-location is to get first-hand information on how well your website or web-based application performs in front of a worldwide audience. In this blog post, I shall demonstrate how to monitor your current website from multiple locations. 1. Log into Site24x7. 2. Select the website you wish add more locations or change those locations to a different one and click on
New look & feel for Site24x7 - lots more to come!
We are going to roll out a new user interface (UI) for Site24x7 shortly, which represents the first significant change to the interface since it was launched. We have made improvements to overall usability & accessibility and have updated colors and styles to match the Site24x7 website theme. This update helps you to quickly access all features, data and statistics. It will be more intuitive, visual-friendly, easier to use and load faster. A sneak-peek of the new interface can be seen below. The
How-To: Monitor website performance from multiple locations
When users search for a good website monitoring solution, one of the main requirements in their checklist is whether the solution can monitor websites from multiple locations. This not only helps them to understand the availability and performance of
IP address change in Chicago monitoring servers
As the load on our Chicago server is growing, we are moving our monitoring to a new high end server from 27 July 2010 00:00 AM PDT. So, if you have IP restriction in your server, you have to reconfigure the newer Chicago server ip address in the allowed ip list. This is to make sure that our requests come through properly. The new ip addresses of our Chicago server is: 184.106.199.87 Kindly make the necessary configuration changes to ensure our monitoring requests hit your websites.
Introducing Web site Monitoring from Italy, Hongkong and Sao Paulo
We’ve recently introduced monitoring from Italy, Hongkong and Sao Paulo. These additions further augment our global monitoring network and takes the total location count to 24. The Italy server is our 8th in Europe, Sao Paulo server is our 2nd server in South America and Hongkong is our 4th server in Asia. We are also planning to add more servers in near future, so stay tuned to this space.
Invoice integration
Now invoices for the transactions you have had with Site24x7 can be obtained in the Accounts -> Billing section of the Site24x7 client. Invoices of last 5 months also can be obtained in the above section. Going forward you will be able to get invoices for all the transactions done with Site24x7. To view the invoice, go to Accounts Tab -> Billing section. Under Billing Details and Invoices, you can see month-wise billing details. Along with billing details, you can find the links to appropriate Invoices.
Server Monitoring with Site24x7
Now-a-days it is necessary to monitor the availability of the server and network devices in order to provide uninterrupted service to the customers. In the recent upgrade, Site24x7 introduces Ping Monitoring with which one can monitor the server availability,
Introducing Web site Monitoring from France, Ireland and Virginia
We’ve recently introduced monitoring servers in Virginia, Ireland and France. The Virginia and Ireland servers are from Amazon EC2 and our France server is located in Paris. These additions further augment our global monitoring network and takes the total location count to 20. The Virginia server is our 7th server in US. Ireland and France servers take our European server count to 6. We are also planning to add more servers in near future, so stay tuned to this space.
The cascading effect of DNS failure
A friend of mine recently had his website going down for a couple of hours. Since there was no prior communication from his web host regarding the downtime, he got frustrated and tried to contact them through email. To his utter dissatisfaction, his mail bounced with the below error message: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. support@------.com Domain Not Resolved
Facebook becomes most visited website in the US
Analyst firm Hitwise reported that Facebook has overtaken Google to become the #1 website in the US. According to Hitwise, Facebook surpassed Google in terms of traffic for the week ending March 13, 2010. Although FaceBook and Google serve two different purposes, this is a significant development in the Internet world. For quite a long time, Google was, without a doubt, the most visited site around the world. It still continues to attract humongous traffic. However, with more and more people flocking
IP address change in London and New Jersey monitoring servers
As the load on our London server is growing, we have moved our monitoring to a new high end server. So, if you have IP restriction in your server, you have to reconfigure the newer London server ip address in the allowed ip list. This is to make sure that our requests come through properly. The new ip addresses of our London server are: 213.175.210.4 213.175.210.5 Similarly we have also moved our New Jersey server to a new location, whose IP address is 172.30.251.206 Kindly make the necessary configuration
SMS Alert Problem for US Customers
We are using clickatell gateway for delivering SMS alerts to our users. Currently there is a problem in clickatell gateway for delivering SMS to US numbers. We are hoping this problem will be resolved soon. Updates on the same is available at http://support.clickatell.com/us_notifications.php If you have mail-to-sms provision with your service provider, you can use the same to get SMS alerts. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. We will update you once the problem is resolved.
Myspace updates go live on Google search
MySpace, the social networking site, has been lying low for a while. Once the top social networking site in the world, MySpace has seen Facebook and later Twitter overtake them in terms of popularity and number of users. While there may be many reasons for the downfall of Myspace, they are certainly trying to be back in the reckoning now. This can be evidenced from MySpace's co-president Mike Jones's recent blog post that Myspace results will appear as part of Google search results. Here are a few
Improve Web Application Performance using Site24x7
Webmasters and website owners will know how important it is to ensure their web applications are performing as expected for end users. Site24x7’s web application monitor makes it easier for them to keep track of the availability and performance of web applications such as customer logins or shopping cart purchases. The monitor sends out notifications if it detects any problem with the transaction, such as an unwanted downtime or a slow response time. An important use of web application monitor, which
Happy Holidays from Site24x7
It has been an exciting and eventful year for us here at Site24x7. We grew a lot this year, both in terms of features added to our monitoring service as well as expanding our user base. Here is a quick recap of what went into Site24x7 in 2009. - Five new locations were added to our global monitoring network. Servers were added in China, Japan, India, Brazil and Sweden. - Support for 10 new languages including French, German, Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Japanese, etc. - New monitor types such as
Twitter's unplanned downtime and the importance of monitoring website content
As you must have known by now, Twitter was recently hacked and defaced by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army. The hackers managed to compromise Twitter's DNS records and left a defacement message on the website. Both twitter.com and status.twitter.com were down and some users faced a temporary problem with sending tweets. There has been extensive coverage of this downtime in various tech blogs such as Techcrunch. The Twitter status page provides the latest updates on this incident: We
Special Holiday Offer from Site24x7 - Get 40% off your first bill
It's festive time in most parts of the world now and in keeping with this spirit, we are offering some cool bargains on Site24x7. If you upgrade to a monthly subscription, you will get 30% off your first bill. If you choose yearly subscription, you will get 40% off your first bill. This offer is applicable on all our user packages: Standard, Professional and Enterprise. If you already have a free/trial account with us, click the 'Upgrade' link within your account to avail this offer. If you don't
China monitoring location temporarily unavailable
Our Chinese monitoring location has been temporarily rendered out of service. This is due to an unprecedented disruption of network activity at the datacenter level, and this reportedly affects tens of thousands of websites. You can read more info on this downtime from our web host's blog: http://blog.sinohosting.net/china-servers-downtime-notice/ In order to ensure our China location users are not affected, we have routed the monitoring to our Japan server. All users who have configured China as
Chinese domain names and their impressive growth rate
What do you think is the fastest growing domain name on the internet? It is the Chinese (.cn) domain. As the Chinese economy is growing, so is the number of internet users in China. In fact, the number of Internet users in China surpassed the US in 2008. According to CNNIC, there were 298 million Chinese Internet users by end of 2008 and growing at 800,000 new users per day. It is currently 22% of Internet users worldwide, and could surpass Internet users in Europe very soon. This is to say the least
Introducing website monitoring from Brazil and Sweden
As announced in an earlier post, we’ve recently introduced monitoring servers in Brazil and Sweden. The Brazil server is located in Rio De Janeiro and the Swedish one is at Stockholm. These additions further augment our global monitoring network and takes the total location count to 17. The Brazil server is our first in South America. The Sweden server is our fourth location in Europe to go with UK, Netherlands and Germany. We now offer monitoring from every continent except for Antartica!! We will
Integration to intranet portals, website uptime buttons & more
We recently had an update here at Site24x7. Here is a brief overview of the features/enhancements that have gone into this update. 1. Option to integrate website uptime and performance data into intranet portals/applications: We have provided access to secure public views for all the monitors in your account. These views display the uptime and performance data of the websites you are monitoring, and these views can be easily integrated into any third-party application or corporate/intranet portals.
Avoiding unnecessary notifications during ''Scheduled Maintenance"
There are some occasions when you may want to take your web site, web application or servers offline for some upgrade or maintenance purpose. To prevent your sites or applications from being monitored during the maintenance period, you should configure a maintenance schedule for your monitors and thus avoid unnecessary notifications from Site24x7. Given below are step-by-step instructions on how to configure a maintenance schedule in Site24x7. Log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to the Alerts
The increasing patronage of Digital Passports
Zdnetasia recently reported that Indian government has announced plans to introduce digital passports to its citizens from 2010 onwards. We decided to take a closer look at what digital passports are and how they are implemented around the world. What is a digital passport? A digital passport, also called biometric passport or e-passport is the same as the traditional passport with the addition of a small integrated circuit or chip embedded in the back cover. The passport contains a microchip which
Site24x7 for iPhone - Track Website uptime status & SLA compliance from your iPhone
We have just rolled out an iPhone client that can be used to access Site24x7 website monitoring service. The interface lets you connect to Site24x7 and view the current status of the monitors in your account. This is useful for you to get a quick overview of the status of your web sites while you are on the move. You can view the current uptime and performance statistics for each of your web sites. You can also view SLA reports and keep track of SLA compliance. There is a separate view for outage
Follow Site24x7 on Twitter
Twitter has been taking over the world and many companies now use it as a platform to interact with their users. We, the Site24x7 team, have also been using Twitter to reach out to our users in near real time. You may follow our tweets to get regular updates on new features/enhancements in Site24x7 or to get your Site24x7 questions answered. This is another method of interacting with us. Of course, you can also follow this feed for updates or reach out to us directly. ~
Site24x7 - some recent articles in the blogosphere
Once in a while we keep an eye on the blogosphere to understand how website monitoring services are being used by customers. While doing this, we do stumble upon certain blogs which educate their readers about website monitoring services. Here are a couple of such posts which we came across recently. The first one was in affiliateranger.com site about the free website monitoring services available today. The article mentions Site24x7 as well as some other monitoring services. Here is what the blogger
Singapore location temporarily unavailable
Our Singapore location is temporarily out of service due to an undersea cable disruption in the South East Asian region. Our hosting provider has put out press release about this. In order to ensure our Singapore location users are not affected, we have shifted the monitoring to our Indian server. All the users who have configured Singapore as their primary monitoring location will now have their monitoring checks coming from India. We regret the inconvenience caused. We will be shifting the monitoring
Site24x7 API: Integrate Website Uptime and Performance data into Portals
We've recently introduced APIs into Site24x7 that lets you pull website uptime & performance data from your account and work with the data in many possible ways. Anyone with programming knowledge can write a program to pull data using the APIs and integrate them into third-party applications. The APIs are Rest style web APIs over HTTP/HTTPS. The data needs to be extracted in XML format. You need to generate an API key to start using the APIs. To generate the key, use the Generate API key option under
The Wimbledon Final, Roger Federer and E-Commerce Transactions
The Wimbledon Final yesterday, was an epic battle between two great Tennis players : Roger Federer Vs Andy Roddick.~ The game was exhilarating to say the least. The scores : 5-7 7-6 7-6 3-6 16-14 Last game, 16 - 14 ! That makes it actually a 6 sets match. While watching the match, my mind was just trying to think what was going through the minds of the two players. Both had very powerful serves, both were superbly fit players, played great tennis with huge amount of concentration. However both made
Site24x7 featured in Interop IT Expo
InterOp is a leading technology event which is held every year in Las Vegas during the month of May. Business and technology leaders attend Interop to get the most up to date information available on key technologies, learn about the latest trends and meet with leading vendors. This year the event was held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Site24x7 was one among the products featured in this year's event. Site24x7 was described as a "hosted service helps IT managers understand the end-user experience
Introducing Website Monitoring from India
If your servers are located in India or if your company has business interests in the Indian region, it is definitely worthwhile to keep track of how your website is behaving for Indian users. Now you can accomplish this by making use of our new Indian monitoring location. You just need to configure a website monitor in Site24x7 and select the Indian server for your site. Site24x7 will then continuously monitor your website from India and send out alerts if there are any problems such as downtime
Monitoring your websites from wherever you are
We came across two articles about Site24x7 recently and want to share them with our readers. The first one is from DB Virtual Services blog and the post is titled "Monitor your websites from wherever you are". This one is a quick review of Site24x7 and gives a brief idea of what webmasters and website owners can accomplish with Site24x7. Here are a few excerpts from the article: ~Do you manage a personal or business website? Do you know if your website is up and running when you’re not online and
Introducing Website Monitoring Locations in China and Japan
After adding monitoring servers in Germany, Australia, South Africa and some US states in the last quarter of 2008, we are now focusing on expanding our monitoring network in the Asian continent. Earlier our lone monitoring server in Asia used to be in Singapore. Now we have added servers in China and Japan. The Chinese server is located in Shanghai and the Japanese server is in Nagano City. To ensure uninterrupted monitoring from these monitoring servers, please make sure your firewalls allow all
Twitter's Recent Security Problems - Phishing Scam & Hacking of high-profile Accounts
Being popular in Web 2.0 world comes with its own share of problems. Twitter, the most popular microblogging service, found this out when they faced security problems on two occasions recently. The first one was the phishing scam which tricked thousands of tweeters into giving away their account passwords to a phishing site which resembled the Twitter main site. Twitter blog called this the 'Gone Phishing' scam, which now appears to be under control. The second problem was when some high-profile
Salesforce CRM experiences sudden downtime
Salesforce.com (CRM) was down for around 30-40 minutes yesterday between 12:40 to 1:20 US Pacific time. Customers complained they were unable to access their accounts or were unable to reach the website in some cases. Salesforce's status page had a brief explanation of the outage. Service Disruption Time: 1/6/09 12:40 pm PST Detail: Service Disruption All Instances Root cause: Starting at 01/06/2009 20:39 UTC, a core network device failed due to memory allocation errors. The failure caused it to
Find out what increases your web site load time
We came across a couple of articles on the internet which feature Site24x7. The first one is by Prem Godara in his Techno Mirror blog. ~He has an article about finding out what increases the loading time of a website. The article is titled "Does your website load slowly! Here's a solution" Prem mentions two tools - Site24x7 and Octagate Site Timer. Here are a few excerpts from the post: Are you one of those users whose website takes lot of time to load but don't know what is the problem and which
Monitor a group of Websites using Monitor Group
Do you manage websites belonging to multiple companies? Do you need to keep tabs on the uptime and performance of websites on a company-wise basis? The "monitor group" feature in Site24x7 will allow you to do just that. The monitor group lets you organize or group multiple monitors into a group. You can use this to tag different websites or servers belonging to a particular client/company into a single group. If you have multiple clients, you can create multiple groups. A Sample Monitor Group The
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