Options for boosting datacenter uptime
Author: ArunThere is a nice article about datacenter downtime problems in the latest issue of GCN mag. This one is by Drew Robb and it touches upon some of the common causes of downtime in datacenters. What would it take for your data center to go off-line? For one government agency, all it took was some routine cleaning. In 2000, the Cincinnati State Technical and Community College was installing new servers and storage as part of an Active Directory migration. Just before the equipment went live,
Scheduling daily/weekly uptime and performance reports
Author: ArunSite24x7's daily / weekly reports are a great way to keep tabs on the uptime and performance of your web sites, applications and mail servers. You just need to configure monitors one time within your Site24x7 account and these reports will start coming right to your mailbox. So you need not login to Site24x7 to know the status of your sites. A recent enhancement that we made to this section is the ability to schedule these reports at a date/time of your choice. In the case of daily reports,
Web site monitoring from an end-user perspective
Author: ArunAny business web site owner or webmaster will know the perils of slow-loading web pages and what they can do to drive away users from the web site. One of their main concerns should be to ensure their web pages are loading fast enough for the users. Sometimes the web page might load fast enough for some users but not all users might share the same experience. It is therefore important to have a look at things from an end-user perspective. Here is where the Web Page Analyzer monitor (WPA)
Essential tool for a blog
Author: ArunAs we mentioned in one of our earlier posts here, we frequently get to read some articles about Site24x7 in languages other than English. Here are couple of recent such posts from the blogosphere. The first is in French. The article is titled "Les outils indispensables pour un blog (7/9): Site24�7" and appears in SimpleEntrepreneur site. The title when translated into English reads "Essential tools for a blog (7/9): Site24x7". The post is in fact one among a series of posts that discuss
Site24�7 Maintenance on October 13
Author: ArunWe are upgrading our datacenter infrastructure and Site24x7 will be down on October 13, 2007 between 10:00 hrs PDT to 16:00 hrs PDT. During this time, you will not be able to access Site24x7 and your websites and applications will not be monitored. Please note, this downtime will not be reflected in your reports. We apologize for the short notice and any inconvenience this may cause you. Update: Maintenance complete. Note: Edited for clarity.
Configuring Maintenance Schedules to deal with planned downtime
Author: ArunThere are some occasions when you may want to take your web site, web application or e-mail server offline for some upgrade or maintenance purpose. In such cases, you will receive notifications indicating that the site, or the application are unavailable. Since the site is not available when pinged during the maintenance period, unnecessary notifications are sent. To prevent your sites or apps from being monitored for status during maintenance, you can schedule a maintenance task for
Simple hosted web site monitoring service
Author: ArunWe recently came across a nice little article about Site24x7 in the blogosphere. This one is by Ajay Prabhu and is basically a short review of Site24x7's web site monitoring service. This article mentions almost all of Site24x7's basic features. Of course, we frequently come up with newer features and enhancements such as the ones in our recent update. Here are a few excerpts from his article: What Company is Offering: Site24x7 checks for the response time and availability of your website.
Site24�7 listed in killerstartups.com
Author: ArunKillerstartups has included Site24x7 among its list of killer Web 2.0 sites. They also have included a short review of Site24x7 in their site. The review is titled "Site24x7 - Complete Website Maintenance". Here are a few excerpts: These days businesses are judged by how professional their website looks and how well it works. That being the case, companies who do not have a professional site manager are constantly running the risk of website failure. Site24x7.com offers a service for
Site24�7 - System Maintenance complete
Author: ArunHere's a quick update. The system maintenance is complete and our servers are back online now. You will now be able to log into your Site24x7 accounts and monitor your web sites and web applications. As informed earlier, you will be unable to view performance historical metrics for the next couple of days due to data migration. However, uptime metrics will continue to be displayed as usual.
Site24�7 system maintenance today
Author: ArunA quick update. We will be taking our servers offline today for a couple of hours for some urgent maintenance work. You will not be able to log into your Site24x7 accounts during this time period. Also note that your response time historical data will be temporarily unavailable for the next couple of days. This is due to some data migration work planned for these days. This data will be restored after the migration is complete. Your uptime stats will not be affected and will be available
Mail server monitoring with Site24�7
Author: ArunMost organizations today rely on their mail systems more than any other piece of infrastructure. Any failure of mail servers has the potential to cause havoc, and your helpdesk might be swamped with calls from angry users. What could be even worse is the possibility that you might not even know about this failure. It is therefore vital that mail servers are monitored continuously and any outages detected quickly and resolved. With the introduction of the 'Mail Server Monitor' type in
Importing urls to create multiple web site monitors
Author: ArunOne of the many enhancements that we introduced in our recent update is the facility to import urls in bulk. Earlier if you had wanted to monitor multiple websites, you had to create website monitors one by one. With the import urls option, you can accomplish this task in a jiffy. All you need to do is import urls from a .txt, .csv or .html file. There is no limit on the number of web sites that can be imported. Here are the steps to import urls into Site24x7: After logging into your
Multi-location Monitoring support in Site24x7
We recently introduced multi-location monitoring in Site24x7. Your websites and applications will now be checked from servers in 3 different locations. These checks will come in from California, Boston, and United Kingdom. The California location is our primary monitoring location and the other two are secondary locations. The bulk of the monitoring will be done from the California location. When a website test from the California location fails, we recheck the site from UK and Boston locations before
Keep tabs on your website with Site24�7
Author: ArunWe came across couple of nice articles on Site24x7 recently. One is by Simon Dickson in "Managing your website" section of btbroadbandoffice blogs. His post is titled "Keep tabs on your website" and it gives a brief introduction about Site24x7 and our parent company Zoho. Some excerpts from Simon's article: Zoho is a company making significant waves in the 'web 2.0' world: they specialise in online versions of common office programs, and rarely does a month go by without something new
Site24�7 Update: More monitor types, etc
Author: ArunWe have added a few more goodies to Site24x7 in our latest update. These include all the options mentioned here as well as a few usability enhancements. One of the new monitor types added is Mail Server Monitor. As the name suggests this monitor will help you monitor your mail servers, both SMTP and POP. It gives you mail server round-trip time (RTT) by sending email to the mail server using SMTP and retrieving it using a POP account. Web Page Analyzer (WPA) is the second monitor type
A sneak peek into our forthcoming update
Author: ArunWe, at Site24x7, periodically update our service with the intention of making things better for the user as well as providing more options. We are all set to come out with a new update this week. Here's a look into what's coming. Two new monitor types Mail Server Monitor - to help you monitor email server round trip time. Web Page Analyzer - to help you analyze each component of your web page to find out if they are slowing down your site performance. Schedule Maintenance - to help you
Paypal support in Site24�7
Author: ArunWant to buy Site24x7, but not having credit card in hand? Having a Paypal account is good enough. Yes, now you can purchase Site24x7 Professional account and SMS packs and pay directly through your Paypal account. All you need to do is contact us with your Site24x7 account details, the amount you would like to purchase (monitoring charges) and your billing address. Based on your account details, we will send you a secure Paypal link where you can login and purchase. Feel free to contact
More about Site24�7’s Trouble notifications
Author: ArunHere are some frequently asked questions about 'Trouble' Notifications sent from Site24x7's web site monitoring service, along with their answers. What do 'Trouble' notifications mean? Trouble notifications can mean any of the following: 1. Your site content has been modified. 2. The response time of your site has crossed some limits you have set. 3. Certain keywords are present/absent on your website. These notifications are sent only if you have configured content check, keyword check
Comparing search results across search engines
Author: ArunHave you tried tracking your keyword position across multiple search engines such as google, yahoo or msn? If you are one among those who go to these search engines one by one and search, you must have really found it a tiresome and repetitive process. Now here are 2 different services that can help you out. Jux2 is a search engine which claims to give you combined search results from google, yahoo and msn. When you search for any keyword, jux2 compares its position across these search
DNS Lookup - Free online tool to look up DNS records
Author: Arun Last week, when we had discussed the DNS Server Monitors feature, we had also mentioned about the DNS Lookup tool. Now here are some frequently asked queries about this tool along with their answers. 1. What is DNS Lookup Tool? DNS Lookup is a free online tool to look up DNS records for a domain. 2. How do I get to the DNS Lookup tool? It can be accessed from two locations in Site24x7: From the website - https://site24x7.com/dns-lookup.html From inside your Site24x7 account. The tool
Answering your pricing/upgrade questions - part 2
Author: ArunRecently, we answered some queries pertaining to Site24x7's pricing & upgrade policy here in the blog. Now here are a few more queries related to pricing/upgrade/payment process. I have Professional Account. Now I want to monitor more websites, how do I buy more website monitors? You can keep adding new website monitors using the 'Add Monitor' option. Our system will automatically check once every month to see if new monitors are added to your account, and adjust charges based on your
Some non-English blogs on Site24x7
Author: ArunMost of the coverage that we get in the blogosphere has been predominantly from English language blogs. However, recently I came across some blog posts in languages other than English. Here is one in Italian. This one is from Lorenzo Piccinini. Lorenzo finds Site24x7 very useful and says he will be using it a lot in the future. Read full article here Here is an article in a French blog. This one talks about 5 free website monitoring services, and the list includes Site24x7 among others.
Monitor your website better with Site24�7
Author: ArunCame across a nice little blog post by Kai Loon, blogger and Site24x7 user from Malaysia. The post is titled Site24x7 - Monitor your website better. Few excerpts from his post: Today I am going to introduce this hosted website monitoring service to all of my friends — site24�7. Base on the name you may know that this is a 24 hours service and they provide several services to help you to monitor and track your web. There are 6 major services which included: Monitor website availability
Monitor your DNS Servers with DNS Server Monitor
Author: ArunWe had introduced the 'DNS Monitor' monitor type in Site24x7 a few weeks ago. Since then, we've already had quite a few users coming back to us with positive feedback about this monitor type. This article discusses configuring a DNS Server monitor in Site24x7 and monitoring your DNS servers with it. As you all know, Domain Name Servers (DNS) are an indispensable part of today's internet use. The most important use of DNS server is translating human-readable domain names to machine-readable
Monitor your site’s uptime and responsiveness
Author: ArunThere is an interesting discussion going on at geeksandgods website forums. The discussion started with a post on what to monitor once your website is up and running. Mark has replied to this post in a comment titled "Monitor your site's uptime and responsiveness Monitoring services and software packages are available that can check your site on a regularly scheduled intervals and report back to you on problems like finding the site down, responding too slow, or having been unexpectedly
Site24x7: Some recent coverage in the blogosphere
Author: ArunCame across a couple of nice little blog posts on Site24x7. Luv Maloo has a nice little article in his blog Technical hAcKz AnD tRiCkZ. The article is titled Site24x7: Keep a close watch on your blog or websiteFew excerpts from his article: Whether you have a hugely popular blog or getting just a few visitors per day, you still want to make sure that your site is up and running all the time. And that no hackers have sprayed graffiti on your blog with the intention of defacing your website.
Two new Site24x7 buttons added
Author: ArunIn one of our earlier posts, we had discussed the different options available for linking to Site24x7 from your website. Now we have added 2 new colorful images to this section. We hope you like these buttons. If you are using our website monitoring service, feel free to use these and link to us from your site. All you need to do is add couple of lines of code to your site. Visit our help document to find out more.
Web site monitoring cartoon
Author: ArunNormally, when users send in their comments either to our support email address or through the feedback form, they express themselves through words. Recently we received user feedback of a different kind, in the form of a cartoon! Just wanted to share this nice toon with you all. This one is by Matt, one of our long-term users. Matt has used Toondoo, the cartoon strip creator from AdventNet, our parent company, to create this toon. Click image for a bigger picture. Thanks for that creative
Introducing Web Page Analyzer - free tool to analyze web page load times
Author: ArunLast week, we discussed about the various free online tools in Site24x7 . Today, we will discuss about the latest addition to the tools section - the Web Page Analyzer tool. Using the Web Page Analyzer tool, you can find out the load times of your web page and the individual load times of its different objects. Just enter the URL of the webpage and this tool will show you the total page size and the loading time of its individual objects (images, scripts, css, etc). This tool will also
Best service for monitoring online application
Author: ArunJust wanted to share a couple of nice feedback that came to us recently. This one is from Barrie Etherington, who has been using Site24x7 for a long time. A tricky recent period; with loss of websites due to maladministration. On our way back now, thanks to this site so ... watch this space. Thanks Barrie. Nice to know Site24x7 helped you during the tricky period with website problems. One of our Malaysian user says: Thank you for the best services for monitoring online application. after
Answering your Site24�7 pricing/upgrade questions
Author: ArunHere are a few pricing/upgrade related queries that came to us in the past few days. I am sharing these questions and their answers here for the benefit of our readers. I want to monitor 5 websites every 5 minutes. How much do I have to pay monthly? Our pricing system charges you based on the number of urls you monitor and their monitoring intervals. A single url monitored with a 5-minute monitoring interval will costs you 4 USD per month. So, monitoring five webpages/urls at 5 minute
Site24x7 Tools - Now get more out of Site24x7
Author: Arun If you had logged into your Site24x7 account recently, you might have noticed this new 'Tools' tab adjacent to the 'Reports' tab. Yes, we have almost quietly introduced a tools section within Site24x7. This section includes a set of tools that are really useful for webmasters or any interested web user. There are 4 tools available now: DNS Lookup Find IP Find Location Check Availability All these tools are free to use for all types of users (evaluation/free/paid). We believe these tools
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An overview of Reports section(part 3)
Author: ArunIn earlier posts of the 'Reports Overview' series, we discussed availability reports and response time reports. Today, in the last part of this series, we will discuss comparison reports along with the other options available within the 'Reports' tab.Comparison ReportsThe Reports tab provides an option to compare the performance of your websites over a period of time. All you need to do is login to your Site24x7 account, navigate to the 'Reports' tab, select from the sites listed under
An overview of Reports section (part 2)
Author: ArunIn part one of the Report overview series, we reviewed the 'Availability reports' section. Today, we will discuss about Response time reports within the reports tab.As you know, response times are good indicators of how your website is performing. Here are some of the response time reports available: The 'All websites availability report' gives you the response times of the various websites and web applications configured in your account, apart from showing availability of these sites.
Excellent article about external website monitoring services
Author: Arun Michael Slater, Site24x7 user and co-founder of digital photography software company Fotiva, wrote to us recently regarding an article he had written in his blog. It is titled 'Using External Web Site Monitoring Services' and it talks about the need for using external monitoring services to check if your website is working fine.Here are a few excerpts from his article: When your site goes down, you want to know about it as soon as possible. Ideally, you'd detect that something was going
Site24�7 covered in Lockergnome
Author: ArunBrandon Watts has a nice article on Site24x7 in lockergnome website. He dwells upon the importance of properly tracking website downtime and also does a short review of Site24x7.Few excerpts from the article: It's never any fun when one of your Web sites goes down. For many of us, our Web sites are extremely important to us, and in some cases, you may even make a good amount of money from your personal or business space on the Web. Whether you need to monitor one, two, or any other number
An overview of Reports section (part 1)
Author: ArunA new feature enhancement that went into our recent GA release is the 'Reports' section. Here is an overview of the Reports section, presented as a three-part series.For the uninformed, I am talking about the new tab that can be seen when you login to your Site24x7 account. The Reports section gives the following types of reports Availability Reports. Response Time reports by the hour. Comparison Reports. Reports over a custom range. This post focuses on Availability Reports. The 'All
Some queries on Site24�7 Free account
Author: Arun Ever since we released GA version, we have been getting a few support queries regarding our free account. I would like to share a couple of these questions and their answers here for the benefit of our readers. Do I need to sign up separately for Free and Professional Accounts? No. There is no separate sign up for Free and Professional accounts. When you sign up, you get a free 30-day-trial account with all features present. After 30 days, your account will automatically downgrade to
Excellent service that works exactly as advertised!
Author: Arun Well, we didn't say it. Matt of the3dstudio.com said it in a recent feedback that he gave us. Ian Brown of BlackApple had this to say about Site24x7 "One of our favourite tools. Great reporting and very simple to use. We know tools and this is a really good one! Great job guys Thanks for your comments, Matt and Ian. To read more user testimonials, take a look at this page http://www.site24x7.com/site24x7-testimonials.html Want to submit your testimonial? Contact support@site24x7.com
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