Upgrade to Professional account in 4 simple steps
Author: ArunWhen we released our GA version a couple of weeks ago, we also introduced 2 types of user accounts - Free and Professional. Now one frequently asked question after our GA release is "How do I upgrade my account to Professional account?"Well, the upgrade process is really very simple. All you need to do is specify the number of website / web application monitors, monitoring intervals, and the payment period. The payment will be processed through your credit card. Here is how you can upgrade
Site24x7: Monitoring your website performance
Author: Arun Eches has a nice little post on Site24x7 in his blog. It is titled "Site24x7: Monitoring your website performance Here is a snapshot: See full post at http://blog.eches.net/2007/03/11/site-24x7-monitoring-your-website-performance/ Eches, thanks for using Site24x7 and also for the blog post.
Retries before reporting a downtime alert
Author: Arun We recently introduced a nice little enhancement to Site24x7 based on user feedback. It is the 'Send downtime alerts after' option and it gives you the ability to specify the number of consecutive times your website should 'fail' before a downtime alert is send to you. This option is present in the 'Monitor Website' section under 'Advanced Configuration'. You can specify this either when adding a website to be monitored or from the 'Edit Website Details' screen. As you all know, it is
Bloggers recommend Site24�7
Author: Arun We stumbled upon couple of recent articles recommending Site24x7 in the blogosphere. The first one is by ReviewSaurus- The Techie Dino. In his blog post titled 'Check out your blog's uptime with ease', he has reviewed Site24x7 and has also mentioned about other offerings from Zoho. Few excerpts: Quote: Zoho had a utility service, which monitors your websites up time and unfortunately, I didn
Site24�7 - Scheduled maintenance on March 19
Author: Arun On March 19th, the Site24x7 system will be unavailable for approximately 6-8 hours, starting from 9 pm PDT. During this time, you will not be able to login to your Site24x7 account. However, the monitoring of your websites will continue to happen as usual. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. The reason for this downtime - we are moving our services to a new datacenter with more powerful servers. Read more Update:Maintenance completed.
Thanking all Beta users
Author: Arun Last week when we released Site24x7 GA, we also provided our beta users with free $200 credit. We had always wanted to thank our Beta users for their feedback and support during our Beta phase, and this credit was the perfect way of doing so. We had also mentioned about a special discount offer that we have for users who signed up before our GA - a discount of 70% on the first payment, valid if they upgrade within 2 weeks of GA release. Both these offers have come in for a lot of praise
Bloggers on Site24�7 GA launch
Author: Arun Site24x7's GA release last weekend has been covered extensively in the blogosphere. Here are a few such blog posts which caught our eye. The first one is by Gary Price of Resourceshelf. Its called Site24x7.com: Excellent Web-based Web Site Monitoring Tool leaves Beta Some fragments from Gary's blog: Quote: We first posted a detailed look at Site24
Site24�7 GA released!
Author: Arun We're excited to announce the release of the latest version of Site24x7. We want to thank all our users, especially those who gave us valuable feedback during our Beta phase. Whats new? A Feature-rich Reports section which includes: Availability Reports Response time history reports by the hour Comparison reports Reports over a custom date range Retries before reporting an alert Improved Performance Greater Stability An Enhanced User Interface, and much more. Other features incorporated
Another blogger recommends Site24�7
Author: Arun Another blogger has reviewed Site24x7. Boon had been using Site24x7's website monitoring service for the last few days. He has now recommended Site24x7 to all webmasters. Fragments from his blog: Quote: Few days ago i was being told by my colleague about this website, which is site24
Buy additional SMS credits with ‘Buy SMS Pack’
Author: Arun We have just made a couple of useful enhancements to our alerts section. 1. 'Buy Alert Pack' option You can now buy additional SMS or Voice alert packs with your credit card and top up your SMS/Voice credits. To buy Alert pack, login into your Site24x7 account, navigate to Account tab and click 'Purchase Alert Pack' on the right hand side. The charge will be calculated as one credit for one SMS or Voice alert. Be assured that you pay only as per your SMS usage. Currently, we provide
Distinguishing between dynamic and static content
Author: Arun Here's a snippet from a recent support mail that came to us. I am sure this will help other users who might have similar queries. 'How does Site24x7 distinguish between dynamic and static content? For example, if my web site is working but my database is not, how does site 24x7 detects this?' Our answer: Site24x7 can check for the presence or absence of any keywords in your website. It can also check if your webpage content changes. These options are present under 'Advanced Configuration'
Blogger recommends Site24�7
Author: Arun Benedict Harold has been using Site24x7 effectively for the past couple of months. He has now blogged about Site24x7 and recommended it to anyone owning websites. In his post, he has also touched upon some of the features of Site24x7. Fragments from his blog: Read full post: http://www.benh.org/techblog/2007/02/site24x7com-free-website-monitoring.html Thanks Benedict for posting this review.
Techhelpweekly publishes website stats on their site
Author: Arun Earlier, Gibu had a post on how to integrate your website's availability and response time stats into your webpage. Now folks at Techhelpweekly.com have gone ahead and done just that. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of their home page, you will see this image Their website now shows availability and response time stats for last 7 days. This is their way of letting their ISP know how well they are doing at all times! Update: Techhelpweekly also have a weekly podcast where technology
"Where would I be without Site24�7 ?"
Author: Arun Fragments from two recent feedbacks that came to us: Chris from www.theboredzone.com says "Where would I be without Site24x7? I wouldn't know when my sites are down to do something about it and guests to my website won't be able to play games!" Daniel from buyyourcar.co.uk says "What a fantastic service! Providing what a lot of people want - without the bloat that a lot of the paid services include. When are you planning on moving to a paid service? We would willingly pay for what you
Link to Site24�7 - Now more options
Author: Arun In the comments section of my previous post "Website Monitoring Service - Site24x7 ranks first in Yahoo", I had mentioned about linking to Site24x7. Now you have more options to place a link to site24x7. We have added 4 new image links and a text link as well. You can even create your own. Check out #15 of our FAQ section to know more. We request everyone of you using our monitoring service to link to us. Just visit our FAQ section, choose your image link, and copy & paste the appropriate
Website Monitoring Service - Site24x7 ranks first in Yahoo!
Author: Arun I was using Yahoo Search today, and out of sheer curiosity, I searched for 'Website Monitoring Service'. Guess what came up at #1 in search results:?: . . Yes, you got it right. Site24x7 came up first. We also rank 3rd for 'Website Monitoring' keyword. Now thats the kind of stuff that makes you wanna say Yahoooooo!!! :)
Monitor websites with some depth
Author: Arun Fragments from some recent feedbacks that came to us: David Sheardown of High Vibe says "Very good service, with the ability to monitor websites with some depth, including recording a sequence to ensure say a shopping cart is working fine. At the moment it is free, although even if there were a reasonable charge for this, it would be worth it to ensure you know if a website is having issues. We are a small website development company, and this type of service is as valuable as getting
Minor Upgrade - Please plan ahead
Author: Arun Site24x7 will be down for a minor upgrade on Jan 04, Thursday from 9:30 am UTC to 10:00 am UTC . Site24x7 monitoring will be suspended and you will not be able to access Site24x7 during this time period. Our apologies for the inconvenience caused.
Merry Christmas
Author: Arun It's Christmas time. Its the time for gifts, the time to feel the Christmas Spirit, but above all, the time to spend quality time with your family. This Christmas season, don't worry about coming to office. Let Site24x7 watch over your website. If anything goes wrong, you'll be the first to know. Merry Christmas, folks!
If you own a website, you need Site24�7!
Author: Arun Ok, we didn't say it but Mr. Walker of watch-football.net says it. From his testimonial: "What a super site! I've been looking for something like this for years. Thanks to 24x7, I've now changed host after 24x7 emailed the downtime stats. Within days my sales have gone up by 30%. If you own a website you need this. Big thanks to all at site24x7" Thanks Mr. Walker! Read more such user testimonials here.
Great article about Site24x7 in Cybernet
Author: Arun A great article about Site24x7 has been posted in cybernetnews.com. Here is a small fragment from the article "If you have your own Website, when there
Monitoring Web Transactions
Author: Arun Have you heard Bob's story? Bob used to sell his merchandise online, through his online store. He said the store was open 24x7, always available. Customers can visit anytime they like and order anything they want. Customers really liked this idea, business prospered, and Bob was happy. One day visitors to Bob's store were greeted with a strange kind of problem. They couldn't add anything to the shopping cart. They kept trying, but the problem never went away. They couldn't even login.
Happy Thanksgiving
Author: Arun Today is Thanksgiving Day in the US. Its the time to be thankful for what one has and rejoice with family and friends. We, at site24x7, would like to offer our thanks to you for your continued interest, support, and valuable feedback. Wish you a happy and safe Thanksgiving. And don't let the Turkey turn cold! :)
Daily/Weekly Reports for multiple E-Mails
Author: yoge Now you can configure daily/weekly reports to more than one email ids. In Settings -> Reports section, provide the list of E-Mail ids to which you want the daily/weekly reports to be sent. --Yoge
Support for RSS notification
Author: yoge We have added support for nofifying website status through RSS. The subscribe to RSS feeds click Home --> All Website Status --> RSS. --Yoge
Monitoring general websites
Author: yoge Recently we found evaluation users monitoring URLs like yahoo, google etc. This could cause overloading of these public domains by our servers and affects our monitoring capability too. Our robo code will identify those URLs and suspend monitoring with in next 24 hours. Also we will suspend monitoring of the URLs in the following cases : 1. URLs are associated with an invalid email id (meaning these mail ids bounce). The reasoning is anyway we will not be able to notify these users when
Updated: Integrate stats for your website
Author: Gibu Do you want to integrate your site stats (availability and response time) into your website page ? We make it easy for you. Here are some simple steps to do that with site24x7. 1) Make sure you have a free account with site24x7 2) Add your website for monitoring 3) Copy some simple html code and paste it into your webpage. That's it ! To get the html code, Go to Home Tab > All Websites Status > Make Public Hope you will enjoy that. Do let us know any feedback you have. Have a great
2 Reviews on site24x7.com
Author: Gibu Last weekend we had 2 reviews on site24x7. Both cover important features of site24x7. Thank you Gary of ResourceShelf for reviewing site24x7. ResourceShelf wrote: ............. + Notification when a specific portion of the page changes and/or specific words are added or removed. A way to monitor for possible defacements. . + Ability to monitor web transactions. Overall, this is one tool that should be considered by anyone looking to monitor the accessibility of any site or page........
View Status of all websites
Author: Gibu We have added another enhancement to view availability and response times of all websites you monitor in one place. Thanks Gerhard for your feedback. By default this page lists down the stats for the last 7 days. I have attached a screenshot. Do let us know any enhancements you want to see. Gibu
Monitoring non-default ports
Author: yoge Earlier we disabled monitoring for websites running in non-default ports like 8080,9090 etc. Now we have enabled monitoring websites running in any ports.
Monitoring websites on custom ports
Author: Gibu Some websites or web applications run on non default http and https ports. We get a few requests to enable monitoring on those ports. We have currently disabled all ports except the default ones due to security reasons. We are working on making it more robust and in the meantime if you need to enable a particular port, we can enable it on request. Happy monitoring !
Encouraging words !
Author: Gibu We are receiving some good feedback from our users. Here is one encouraging comment we got : Perfect! Excellent software! I want to pay you for this service. ..... Thank you all for your feedback. We are tyring hard to incorporate them as soon as possible. Let the feedback keep coming !
Ideal URL to monitor
Author: Gibu Websites are more of web applications now with most having interaction with backend databases to provide dynamic content to users. Webmasters may have a confusion on what is the best URL on my website to monitor ? I guess the best person to answer this question is 'yourself'! The index page is normally the most important page on a website but sometimes these pages may be static pages, to ensure that they load quickly. It is hence important to monitor the index page for the reason that
Monitoring your backend server
Author: yoge Some times your backend server will fail but the web server will be running fine. In this case just monitoring port 80 of your website wont be sufficient. You need to check for presence of non-static keywords in your site that are either generated by your scripts(JSP or ASP) or output from your backend server. In the event of your backend server failure, Site24x7 will alert you for absence of those keywords even if your webserver is up and running.
SMS Notification from Site24x7
Author: yoge SMS Notification is supported in Site24x7 and is fully free upto 10 SMS per month. Now you can receive notification via SMS or email whenever your web site goes down. Here is what you have to do : Login to your site24x7 account Register your mobile number in the Alerts tab. Edit the URL and in the Advanced section you will have an option to associate the registered mobile number. Next time onwards you need not wait for your customer to report the error and be the first to know when your
Website Monitoring Service
Author: Gibu Site24x7 is a hosted web site monitoring service that can help you ensure your websites are up and running fine. What can it do for me ? It can ensure your blog is up, your ecommerce web site is up, the health of a database driven website is fine etc. It is in beta and is currently fully free to use with no restrictions. We will however have a commercial version coming as soon as we release the GA version. Stay tuned !