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 and other Apache modules without quite understanding them. I'd make a change and upload it without testing. (I'm like that.) And then I'd go to sleep.

Next morning, the site's down, and has been down all night.

Anand says his website initially had a lot of downtime, but he was not aware of it as he was not monitoring his site at that time. Then he started using using Site24x7 to monitor his website, and he was being alerted every time was there was a problem.

So I started using Site24x7 to track if my website was down. It's a convenient (and free) service. It pings my site every hour. If it's down, I get an SMS. If it's back up, I get an SMS. It also keeps a history of how often the site is down.

Over a period of time, the downtime came down and he also changed his hosting provider to get better service.

So I switched to HostGator a few months ago. Nowadays, the site is down a lot less. (In times of trouble, it becomes sluggish, but doesn't actually go down.)

Anand also says Site24x7's alerts are really useful.

But what really made Site24x7 useful to me is that it would alert me when there was a big problem.

Site24x7 sends me an SMS when my site is down. Fits the bill perfectly.

You can read the entire article here. Thanks for writing about us, Anand!

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