An increase in Google Chrome users, more competition to IE?
Google yesterday announced their Chrome browser has come out of Beta. This is one of the fastest Google services to come out of beta tag. It has taken just over 3 months while some of the other Google services seem to be in Beta phase for a very long time. For example, Gmail is still in Beta even though it was launched in 2004. Google claims to have improved Chrome's security and stability features as well as increased its speed. Now we believe this is going to be more of a competition to Internet
Site24�7 Maintenance on November 27
On Thursday, November 27th, Site24x7 will be unavailable from approximately 06:40 hrs GMT to 08:40 hrs GMT due to system maintenance. You won't be able to log into your accounts during this time. However, your websites will continue to be monitored as usual. Sorry for the short notice and apologies for the inconvenience caused. Update: The maintenance is complete. You will be able to access your accounts now.
Site24x7 recommended in 'Beginning Microsoft Office Live' book
Site24x7's website monitoring service has been recommended in the book 'Beginning Microsoft Office Live' by Rahul Pitre. Rahul Pitre runs Acxede, a company that builds web-based applications for small and medium-sized businesses. The book deals with learning all the basic functions of Microsoft Office Live and building websites with office Live. Site24x7 has been featured in the 'Maintaining your Website' section of the book. The author recommends Site24x7 as the best automated service for monitoring
US Election coverage and use of technology
The US Presidential election 2008 was a truly global event. Barack Obama's victory was followed with great interest across the world and was an amazing occasion. What was even more amazing was the election coverage on major tv networks and the technology they used to show results. All major tv networks in the US such as CNN, Fox, NBC and CBS covered the election extensively, with to-the-minute updates of election results as and when they happened. The technology and gadgets on display were mindblowing,
Free Tool to Monitor your Website's Status
Author: AruniWeb blog, a blog that covers web hosting, web development, web design, internet marketing, etc, has recently mentioned Site24x7's website monitoring service. Site24x7 has been included as one of the examples in a recent blog post titled "3 Free Tools to Monitor your Website's Status Here are a few excerpts from the post: If you experience frequent server problems, or if you manage a business-critical website, you might need tools to monitor the current status of your server and/or your
Firefox continues to eat into IE's market share
Author: ArunMozilla's Firefox browser touched 20% browser share worldwide for the first time ever in Oct 2008. In fact, it broke this mark twice during October. These numbers were provided by Net Applications, a service which tracks market share for browsers, search engines and operating systems across the globe. These were also reported by Mozilla developer center site. This is a significant development for Mozilla as its browser continues to make significant inroads into Microsoft's Internet Explorer's
Site24x7 Monitoring Network goes more Global
Author: ArunAlong with our Enterprise Account release last month, we also added more monitoring locations to our global monitoring network. These locations include Seattle, Chicago & Dallas in the United States, Germany in Europe, Australia, and South Africa in the African continent. This now takes our location count into the double digit figures, its on 12 right now. If you wonder what this means to users, well, it means our users can now monitor the uptime & performance of their business-critical
Price Changes to 60-minute Monitors
Author: ArunWe've marginally increased the price of some of our monitors recently. This price change is applicable only to website, DNS, mail server and web page analyzer monitors with monitoring intervals of 60 minutes or above. As per the new rates, a website monitor at 60-minute interval will cost $1/month for Standard account users and $3/month for Premium account users. A 60-minute mail server monitor and a 60-minute web page analyzer monitor will now cost $4/month each. A DNS monitor at 60-minute
Introducing Site24x7 Enterprise Account
Author: ArunWe've just released a brand new user package in Site24x7 - the Site24x7 Enterprise Account. This package is ideal for enterprises who want to ensure their customer-facing web sites are meeting business goals. The enterprise account has all the features of our Premium account plus a slew of new features. Here are a few highlights: Website SLA Management This feature lets you define service level agreements and track their compliance. You can now get real uptime and performance stats of
Mashable features Site24x7
Author: ArunMashable, the popular social networking news site, recently had a post titled "13 Free and Cheap Website Monitoring Services". The post mentioned some of the popular website monitoring services today, a list which also included Site24x7. This is what the folks at Mashable had to say about Site24x7: Site24�7 - It is free to monitor two URLs that are polled every 60 minutes. This is another service that allows you to create maintenance windows for your server. The premium plans also offer
Common reasons why your payment is declined
If you've subscribed for Site24x7's website monitoring service using your credit card, you might occasionally find your payments being declined by Site24x7. Generally, payments are declined if our billing system is unable to verify the billing information you've submitted. Below are some common reasons why your credit card payment may be declined: 1.~ Invalid Amount: Sending too large of an amount, zero dollar ($0.00) amount or amount less than one dollar (American Express/Discover). 2.~ The transaction
Get a Better Perspective of Downtime with 1-minute Website Monitoring
Author: ArunWe have added a new feature into Site24x7 due to popular demand. You can now get Site24x7 to monitor your web sites every minute or every 60 seconds. This feature is available for all accounts - Standard, Premium and Evaluation. How can one-minute monitoring help you? If you monitor your websites every minute, there is a real good chance that you get to know when the downtime starts and when it ends.~ You get instant notifications whenever any downtime is detected and also when the site
Our Pricing Model - Pay only for what you use
Author: ArunMost commercial website monitoring services available in the market sell monitoring packages to their customers - like they charge an 'X' amount for up to 'Y' number of monitors. For example, you can monitor up to 10 monitors if you buy the silver package, up to 50 monitors if you buy the gold package, and so on. While this pricing model has its own benefits and is widely adopted, there is a downside to this from the customers' point of view. Most of the times, you end up paying more
Updating billing information when your payment is declined
Most customers opt to purchase Site24x7 online using their credit card. This is because credit card subscriptions renew automatically and the user does not have to go through the purchase process again. So if you have opted for a credit card mode of payment, this article might be useful for you. On some occasions, your credit card payments may be declined because our billing system is unable to verify the billing information you've submitted. The most possible cause for this is the credit card info
Importance of monitoring Domain Name Records
Last week, Comcast.net users had nearly 1.5 hours blackout of their email services. It was inaccessible from 11 PM to 30 minutes past midnight. As per CIO, hackers changed the DNS Server records to point to alternate servers and hence Comcast.net users were unable to check their mails. If an organization’s DNS servers are down or not functioning properly, it will lead to problems for the end users. This just goes to show how important it is to have your DNS Records monitored too, just to make sure
View Site24x7 alerts in Firefox sidebar using Google Reader
Firefox users might be interested in this. Here is a simple trick that lets you view your Site24x7 downtime and trouble notifications within Firefox itself, in the Firefox sidebar. Prerequisite: You have to subscribe to Site24x7 RSS feed in Google ReaderBelow are the steps to view your alerts in Firefox sidebar: Subscribe for a RSS alert from Site24x7. Login to your Site24x7 account, navigate to 'Alerts' tab and select the RSS link. Login to your Google Reader account and subscribe to the Site24x7
Answering your Site24x7 Premium account questions - part 2
Earlier this month, we'd answered some questions about the Site24x7 Premium account here in this blog. Today, we will discuss another set of questions and their answers here for the benefit of our readers. How many monitoring locations are available for the Premium account? Where are these locations? With the Premium account, you can monitor your website uptime from up to 6 different geographical locations. These locations include California, Houston, New Jersey, Netherlands, UK, and Singapore. Where
How to monitor your website uptime: Site24x7
We came across quite a few articles and blog posts about Site24x7 in recent times. Just wanted to share some of these articles with our readers. The first article was found in blog.econsultant.com last week. This one has a pretty simplistic style. It is in a 'problem definition and solution' format. A rather straightforward solution, isn't it? Just a couple of lines and an image, but they do convey a lot. Read full article here. Another article mentions about the Web Page analyzer tool of Site24x7.
Website Monitoring from multiple locations - in pictures
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes images convey much more than words. That's why we have decided to keep the words to the minimum and focus more on images in this post. Well here are a few images of our newly launched Premium account. Basically, these images depict the steps involved in monitoring website uptime from multiple geographical locations. We believe these images showcase the true value of Premium account. 1) Creating a website monitor and selecting monitoring locations
Answering your Site24x7 Premium account questions - part 1
We launched Site24x7 Premium account a few days ago and the feedback has been good so far. We've also received quite a few questions about the Premium account from our users. Just posting some of these questions and their answers here in our blog for the benefit of other users. What do I get out of the Site24x7 Premium account? You get all the features of the Site24x7 Standard account (earlier known as Site24x7 Professional account) plus the ability to monitor the uptime of your websites from up
Expanding the Site24x7 Website Monitoring Network
We’d introduced website monitoring from multiple locations in Site24�7 quite a while ago. Now with our most recent update, we have enhanced our multi-location monitoring capabilities and expanded our monitoring network to make it more global in nature. We have added monitoring servers in 4 new locations across the globe - two in the US, and one each in Asia and Europe. These along with our existing monitoring locations in California and UK take our location count to 6. Our global monitoring network
Site24x7 update: Multi-location website monitoring, new user packages, etc
We rolled out some important features in Site24x7 a couple of days ago. Here are a few highlights of this update: More Monitoring Locations We have added four new monitoring locations to go with the existing two locations. That makes it six monitoring locations in total - California, Houston, New Jersey, Netherlands, UK and Singapore. By monitoring website uptime from these different geographical locations, you can be doubly sure that your sites are accessible from all parts of the world. We also
Site24x7 Maintenance on March 25
We are enhancing our monitoring network by adding more monitoring locations. For this purpose,Site24x7 will be down for an update on Mar 25, 2008 between 05:30 hrs GMT to 10:30 hrs GMT . You will not be able to access Site24x7 during this time. Sorry for the short notice and apologies for the inconvenience caused. Update: Due to unforeseen issues, we are extending the maintenance period by another 4 hours. We will be back online by 14:30 hrs GMT Update: We are back online now. Thanks for all your
Viewing Site24�7 on the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Microsoft released a new public beta of Internet Explorer browser yesterday. It is called IE 8 Beta 1 and is said to be primarily targeted at web developers and designers. The new update seems to have improved security features as well as usability enhancements. It is also faster than previous IE versions. Source: IE BlogTwo interesting new features in IE 8 are Activities and webslices. Activities are services that give quick access to external services from a web page. Webslices enables users to
Improving the readability of your website content
In an earlier post, we'd discussed the importance of website content monitoring and how Site24x7 can help with monitoring web page defacement. Continuing on the theme of website content, today we will take a look at some online tools that might be useful for website content writers/developers. These free tools might be useful when you are working on the content of a new website or if you want to improve the readability of your existing website content. First up, there is the readability index calculator
How do you know when your website is defaced?
Website defacement is any unauthorized access of a website by a hacker or a system cracker. A hacker might break into the web server and create a page of his own. When visitors come to the website, they might get to see a totally different page or it might perform unexpected actions. Typically hackers leave some messages or shoutouts to their friends. Most of the defacements are harmless, but sometimes they can used to cover up something more sinister such as uploading malware or spyware. Webmasters
Answering your Site24�7 account name questions
In some of our earlier blog posts, we'd answered some common questions pertaining to various sections of Site24x7 such as the Reports tab, Alerts etc. Today we will discuss questions related to the usage of Site24x7 login names. Of course, these questions are the most frequently asked ones. If you have anything specific, you know whom to ask!! I signed up using an email address but that domain will last for 1 month only. How can I change my login email address to something else? Changing the login
Spanish, Portuguese and French articles on Site24x7
We had earlier written about the increasing usage of Site24x7 among European (read non-English) users. Some of these users write articles or blog posts describing the features of Site24x7. We are featuring 3 such articles today - one each in Spanish, Portuguese and French. The Spanish article is by Rafael Pinero in Visual Beta website. It is titled "Site24�7, monitoriza tus p�ginas web" and mentions the most basic feature of Site24x7 - availability and response time monitoring of websites by sending
Website Performance Tracking and Status Monitoring with Site24x7
We recently came across 2 articles on Site24x7 in the blogosphere. The first one is by Raj of Technobuzz and the post is titled is 'Monitor your Site Status with Site24x7'. It gives a brief introduction to Site24x7 and its features and also explains how site24x7 works. Here is an excerpt: Read full article hereOf course apart from the features mentioned in Technobuzz, Site24x7 also offers the Web Page Analyzer, email server monitor, and DNS monitor. The second article this week is by Aibek of Makeuseof.com
Web Page loading pattern of Web Page Speed (Browser) Monitor
Here's a question about the Web Page Speed (Browser) that came to our support team recently. Just thought of sharing this here in the blog so that it will be useful for other users as well. The way Web Page Speed (Browser) works, it seems to show that some images and javascript get downloaded in parallel. Is this way of loading a web page the standard way followed by Internet Explorer and Firefox? When a page is requested from the server, we open an HTTP connection for the main HTML file for that
Buying Site24�7 with a Paypal account or Purchase Order
Author: ArunMost Site24x7 users who upgrade to the Professional account do so by paying online through credit card. In fact, we have even mentioned in our website that this is our preferred mode of payment since credit cards are handled automatically. However, there are some users who might not want to use a credit card as their company policies might prevent them from using cards. It is for the benefit of these users that we offer two alternate modes of payment - Purchase Order (PO) method and Paypal
Monitoring web site uptime through cellphones
Author: ArunA couple of articles about Site24x7 in the blogosphere caught our attention this week. One is by David Bradley in his website sciencetext. The post is titled "Use your Cellphone to monitor website health". David writes about how Site24x7 helps keep track of your website or blog 24/7 and alerts you via email/sms/rss feeds if there is an outage, so that you can take corrective actions quickly. Excerpts from this article: Read full article here. Thanks for the post, David! The second article
Site24�7 in 2007 - A recap of the year gone by
Author: ArunAs we come to the end of year 2007, we thought it might be an appropriate time to look at what we've done this year and how far we have come. So here is a quick recap of the year gone by. Site24x7 was a Beta service for the first 2 months of the year. We came out of Beta in March and introduced our paid plan (Professional account). Our GA release got good coverage in the blogosphere. Throughout this year, we introduced a slew of new features as well as enhancements to existing features
Monitoring Site Downtime with Site24�7
Author: ArunWe recently came across a very nice article about Site24x7 in the blogosphere. This article was written by Anand and is titled "Monitoring Site Downtime". Below are a few excerpts from the article: If something goes wrong with my site, I like to know of it. My top three problems are: - The site is down - A page is missing - Javascript isn't working I'll talk about how I manage these over 3 articles. My site used to go down a lot. Initially that was because I kept playing around with mod_rewrite
Festive offer from Site24�7
Author: ArunIts festive season worldwide and we are taking this opportunity to provide you with some fantastic bargains on Site24x7. We are giving a flat 40% discount for upgrades to Professional account. Just upgrade your Site24x7 Free/Trial account to Professional and get 40% off on your first payment. No strings attached. This limited time offer is valid for a period of 2 weeks only! Contact support@site24x7.com for any questions. Wishing you a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!
Stay on top of website downtimes with Site24�7
Author: ArunJust thought of sharing some feedback we received recently. The first one is from Christian Markley of THP, a long-term user of Site24x7. "Site24x7 has been an invaluable tool to help me stay on top off my websites' downtimes and problems. The notifications have come at the same time that I would get notifications from my web server. This service is awesome!" Kerem of hostcini had this one to say: "What can i say i don't know? I'm using only 5 minutes to site24x7.com . I love it , i like
Answering your Site24�7 Alerts/Reports questions (part 1)
Author: ArunIn an earlier blog post, we had answered some common questions with regards to the Site24x7 free account. Today, we would like to answer some recent questions related to the alerts & reports section. I'm trying to delete an email and sms contact from the alerts page, but it does nothing. How do I delete someone who has left the company? We do not allow you to delete a contact when it is being used somewhere else. To explain further, if you have associated your email / sms contact with
Online store debacle on Cyber-Monday
Author: ArunThe holiday shopping season in the US brings in lots of traffic to online stores every year. This year has been no different either. Unfortunately, online stores who had their e-commerce solutions hosted through Yahoo Store found their shopping carts going down at the wrong time, on "Cyber-Monday". Needless to say, online sales were affected. The problem was identified to be with the checkout process in Yahoo's shopping and transaction algorithm. It looks like lots of merchants were affected
Underground data center to reduce energy consumption
Author: ArunIn an effort to reduce energy consumption in data centers, SunMicrosystems is planning to lower their Blackbox into an underground coal mine in Japan. The main advantage with this underground data center is of course less energy consumption than the usual ground-level data center. Excerpts from a Techworld article: The coolant will be ground water and the site's temperature is a constant 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit) all year, meaning no air-conditioning will be needed outside
How Unplanned Downtimes ruin your Reputation
Author: ArunDatacenter problems can lead to unexpected downtimes and can in turn affect your reputation badly. Web hosting provider Navisite found this out recently when they had a datacenter consolidation project that went horribly wrong. They encountered unexpected problems during server migration between their datacenters. This resulted in lots of their clients' websites going offline. Some of these sites were down for around six or more days!! No wonder then, Navisite users were a furious lot.
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