The top public cloud vendors
In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from being an industry buzzword to entering mainstream lexicon and culture. Its mass adoption means that everything from the applications we use to the files we~create are now facilitated largely by the cloud.~This transition~has led to a wealth of opportunity and~growing number of providers all jockeying to provide businesses with~the resources to create, house and run~the enterprise applications they need. Here’s~our pick of the best. #1 Amazon Web
5 resources every webmaster needs.
Being able to do a job well is one thing. Being able to do it super efficiently can set you apart from the competition - a fact no individual or business can afford to dismiss. Besides honing your technical expertise, this means using the best tools of the trade - those secret weapons that save you time, money and enhance your business rep. Here are our top resources for webmasters as well as marketers, bloggers and anyone else managing websites. #1 Editor For many, Notepad++ is the editing tool
Will you know first if your website is hacked?
Hacking may seem a~modern phenomenon~but it has been around~since the early days of computing. Starting as a~relatively~harmless pastime for~geeks in~basements and~bedsits,~cyber attacks have~acquired~a much darker side.~They~now~pose such a threat~that~the US classifies cyberspace as a new domain of battle as significant as air, land or sea. Knowing if your website has been hacked isn’t always obvious, and unless you use a~website monitoring service, you may not be the first to know.~But~finding
Be the Linux server monitoring champ!
Monitoring the status of Linux servers could prove to be quite a task. If you are the IT administrator, you must be aware of the criticality associated with the availability and performance of your Linux farm. The task gets complicated further for businesses
Site24x7 – Free Tools Galore
When it comes to~freebies~we all want to lay our hands on them, don’t we?~Who would want to pay to get things done when you can get all of it for FREE!~ Especially when free does not mean crippled services. If you are a~system administrator,~webmaster or deal with IT operations, we are sure you would want to~quickly put work~in order without worrying about your wallet or compromising on functionality. Site24x7 covers the entire gamut of monitoring with a variety of tools in the space of administration,
5 things to consider while choosing the right datacenter
While the benefits of using a datacenter may be obvious, knowing which~datacenter to go for may be less clear. Beyond the apparent homogeneity of datacenters lie differences that can have a huge impact on your business. These can affect your scalability,
Top 5 certifications for data centers and professionals
The~technology~landscape is changing all the time. New codes of conduct and legislation, increasing competition and accountability~all call for a way to assess and review~the way you work.~Enter:~third party accreditation. Helping data centers and public clouds to~perform better, win business~and even change the world~through improved~environmental~procedures,~accreditation isn’t just an option for many~businesses. It’s a must-have for every data center interested in~better best practice. Here are
Public clouds: a game changer for small businesses
Public cloud services such as Amazon AWS may be relatively new to you but unless you live “off-grid” you probably benefit from them in some form every day. Businesses of all sizes and scale as well as popular sites such as Spotify and Netflix all use
Don't let monitoring take a break during the Champions League Finals
You~might be the system admin who doubles up as a crazy soccer fan rooting for your favorite team.~On May 25th if you are planning to be at Wembley for the glorious all German finale of the Champions League, leave your work behind to us. Site 24X7 will monitor all your servers, websites, and other vital statistics and give you a status update when you are busy rooting for your favorite team. The Site 24X7 smart phone app (available both for~iPhone~and~Android~devices) will show you updates so that
Get noticed, put your brand logos on your reports!
If you are part of an IT team, we know your work is not easy. The constant pressure of being available irrespective of the time of day is a lot of~ responsibility. Despite that, we are sure you don't feel appreciated. But hey, you are not alone. Here is a way to use your own branding to push the case for you and stamp your authority. An important task of the IT team is to submit reports to key stake holders on the performance stats on various parameters, and Site24x7 offers you the perfect tool which
Site24x7 Service Launches Internal Network Monitor at Interop 2013
INTEROP-LAS VEGAS and PLEASANTON, Calif. — May 06, 2013 — Site24x7 , the cloud infrastructure monitoring service from ManageEngine, today announced the launch of the On-Premise Monitor, the new feature that extends Site24x7 to include availability and performance monitoring of websites, web servers, custom portals and other IT resources inside users’ private networks. The move takes the convenience and cost-effectiveness of Site24x7’s cloud-based monitoring and brings those advantages behind the
Gauge user experience, with multi-location website monitoring
If~you~are the business owner of a~global brand,~what would be your~primary~concern? Making sure that your website is performing well from all the~locations, right?~More so, if you are attempting to find~out the exact user experience,~from users~who access your website from all of those~locations. With Site24x7 Website monitoring,~you now have a solution.~We offer you monitoring from around~40+ different geographical locations~to give you a holistic feel. Wondering why multi-location monitoring is
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Receive website performance alerts on your favorite Instant Messenger
We~ have launched support for Instant Messenger alerts. Now~ receive your~ website performance alerts in the chat window of your favorite IM.~ We~ support Gmail, Yahoo and MSN. IM alerts are an additional alerting mechanism to Email, SMS, Voice, RSS, Twitter and push notifications for~ Android and iPhone apps. What will an IM alert tell me? A~ typical IM alert will give you the name of the Monitor, its status~ (down/up/trouble), reason for the change in status, the start time and~ location of an
Why Monitoring Your Application's Performance is the Key to Business Success
Update:~Visualize Web Transactions end to end, with performance metrics of all components starting from URLs to SQL queries with Site24x7 APM Insight Application down-time can be nightmarish Consider you are the owner of an~e-business~portal and due to the slow response time of a search request, a customer decides to move to a competitor's website. That's certainly painful. Just imagine the amount of revenue and goodwill you lose.~Outages~always~have a negative impact on the company.~ The best strategy~to
Set the right escalation mechanism to monitor downtime
Tracking the availability of your website is the first and foremost activity to be performed by IT Administrators for business success. For optimum website monitoring,~it is~not sufficient only~ to have a downtime alerting system.~In such a scenario, the right escalation mechanism is also equally important so that the precise~set~of individuals are notified,~and faster action is initiated.~For~example,~if an~NOC~Operator is not able to close a ticket in time, then the next automatic action would
Persistent Notification: Ensuring Outages Are Recognized and Resolved
The IT team always seems to have their hands full – installing and maintaining servers, monitoring websites and web applications, fielding and resolving issues or taking care of other business activities. In short, people in the IT department are busy. That’s obvious. What’s not so obvious in that sea of activity is any single, specific outage. How do you make sure your team is aware of a particular outage, so it doesn’t get overlooked and lost in the myriad of other routine tasks? How do you ensure
Response Time Graphs, Role based access added in the latest version of Site24x7 iPhone app
Site24x7 app for iPhone lets you to stay current about the status of your Monitors even when you are going places. The app has seen lot of functionality updates and improvements recently. The UI has become more intuitive. And here are the list of updates. Response time graph in monitor details pages - Find out when the response time of your Monitor peak or identify the time periods when it is optimal. The graph can be generated for varying time periods such as a day, a week, a month, 3 months or
We had an unexpected, brief outage today at Site24x7
We faced an unexpected link problem at ISP side today around 12:28 AM PST. Some of the Monitors were incorrectly reported as Down, when this occurred. The issue has been fixed and the system is operating normally now. For our customers who received any false SMS/Voice alerts, we request you to ignore them. We assure you that the credits will be refunded to your account. While what happened was not entirely in our control, we sincerely regret this incident and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
New Monitoring Server Added in Dubai
We have added one more location to our global monitoring network. The newly added location is Dubai. With this addition you can now monitor servers or websites from 43 locations across the globe. The IP address for the Dubai location is 86.96.192.21.
IT Automation- Restart your web server automatically with Invoke URL option
Site24x7 allows you to automate a website restart, initiate an application back up or define a host of other actions via an URL call back action. That is, you can ask Site24x7 to do the next steps when your website or application is detected down. And you as a website owner or IT admin, can avoid that dreaded alert call or message at mid-night that gets you scrambling towards your computer. What is Invoke URL feature? Invoke URL is an 'user defined HTTP call back action' popularly known as a web
This Holiday Season, Smooth Sail Your Online Business with Site24x7
The online season is in full swing, starting with the upcoming Cyber Monday. Studies have indicated that Cyber Monday sees the first spike in online shopping during the start of a long holiday season and slowly increases through mid-December till the end of Christmas holidays. There is no denying the fact that online sales hit hysteric levels on Cyber Monday. Compared to the in-shop frenzy of Black Friday, Cyber Monday is when shoppers take to the world of internet shopping. While this may be the
Inc.com chooses Site24x7 as their ‘top pick’ among website monitoring services
Inc.com is one of the most reputed place for small business ideas and resources for entrepreneurs. Getting featured here goes a long way to say about the credibility of a service. Site24x7 is happy to be chosen as the ‘top-pick’ by Inc. in an article titled “Review: 3 Website Monitoring Services”. A big thank you Inc. The below is an excerpt about Site24x7 from the article. Our top pick, this service can monitor database programs and Web apps. Setup was easy: We simply pasted our site's URL into
Identify database level problems in your website with 'content check'
In Site24x7, availability of a website is determined by checking the HTTP response code we receive from the website. Whenever a standard error code is returned the website will be marked as down. Refer our help guide for a comprehensive list of error codes. But there will be scenarios where the issue will be at the database level and your website or web application might not return the standard error codes. In contrast it might even return a success response code so that the website wont be identified
October Newsletter- Site24x7 Desktop Notification Tool
Now you can free yourself from the routine task of checking your email for any alert messages. DeskApp is a notification tool that lets you receive downtime alerts directly on your desktop. What's more, it even lets you check the performance of your configured monitors via DeskApp. Follow the below steps to download DeskApp. Login to your Site24x7 account and Navigate to Gadgets under the Home tab. Download and install the file. After installing, login to DeskApp using your Site24x7 credentials.
October Newsletter: Watch your DNS -The GoDaddy learning
Watch your DNS-The GoDaddy learning GoDaddy, the world's largest domain registrar and web hosting company recently suffered service outage, taking down thousands of websites across the world. According to technology website TechCrunch, "the failure is being caused by the inaccessibility of GoDaddy’s DNS servers — specifically CNS1.SECURESERVER.NET, CNS2.SECURESERVER.NET, and CNS3.SECURESERVER.NET are failing to resolve." Monitor your DNS and identify issues as it develops Domain Name Servers are
New Monitoring Server Added in South Africa Location
We are adding one more server in South Africa location. The new server will be located in Johannesburg and the IP for the new server is 196.38.40.223. This is in addition to our already existing server in Cape Town-South Africa. We request you to white list the above IP if you have enabled monitoring from South Africa location. For any clarifications contact us at support@site24x7.com.
Ban on bulk SMS for India region till 1st of September 2012
Department of Telecommunications, Govt of India has issued a ban on all bulk promotional SMS (more than 5 messages) with immediate effect from 17/08/12 for all operators across India until 1st of September 2012. Customers who are using Clickatell as their SMS provider for India region might not receive SMS alerts from Site24x7 during this time period. We apologize for the inconvenience, but this is unfortunately beyond our control. Please contact support@site24x7 for any clarifications.
Site24x7 having network problem
We are experiencing performance problem in Site24x7 right now (as of 6:30 AM Pacific Time). We are working on this right now, and will post updates as soon as we have additional information. Update : We are experiencing packet loss on our network access paths, and we are working on it right now. Update 2 9:13 AM PST: We have brought down the degree of packet loss, but still due to intermittent packet loss services are slow. We are working on it. Update 3: As of 9:30 AM PST packet loss has been reduced
Announcing launch of our iPhone app!
The much awaited Site24x7 app for iPhone is launched and is available in the app store. You can now keep track of your monitors from the convenience of your iPhone anywhere, anytime and respond to unplanned downtimes and performance issues real time before it affects your end users. Do go through our webpage https://www.site24x7.com/server-monitoring-iphone-app.html to see how this free iPhone app can make your work easier. Try it out and do let us know your comments. And don’t forget to read Site24x7
Site24x7 Newsletter - Measure your end-user satisfaction levels with new Apdex performance index
What's New | Comment on Facebook | Customer Testimonials Measure your end-user satisfaction levels with new Apdex performance index. Ever wished for a simple rating scale to check customer satisfaction amidst the myriad of website/application performance metrics? Well, consider that your wish has been granted with the new Apdex performance scores from Site24x7. Apdex is a simple and easy to decipher end-user experience rating that lets you check how satisfied your customer is with your website or
Latest Release: Updates to Server Monitoring, Web Page Analyzer
We are adding a host of new enhancements to our existing monitoring capabilities. Enhancement to server monitoring, improvements to Web Page Analyzer monitor, ability to configure site24x7 monitoring to use your own name servers for website monitoring
Site24x7 @ HostingCon 2012
Site24x7 Monitoring Server Update: New server added in Tokyo
We have added one more monitoring server in Japan. The new server is located in Tokyo and this is in addition to our already existing node in Nagano. This new addition will help our customers to monitor the availability and performance of their websites or servers from one of the busiest and most important hub in Japan. The IP address for Tokyo location is 54.248.99.81. Please white-list this IP if you plan to use Tokyo as your monitoring location. For any clarifications, you can send an email to
Site24x7 Newsletter- Introducing Site24x7 App for Android
Track availability and performance Now easily track the availability and performance of your websites from multiple locations across the globe. Identify performance issues faster and take corrective actions before it affects your customers. Get instant alerts via Push Notification Receive instant alerts on your Android phone via push notification. All you have to do is register for push notification and receive instant alerts for any perfromance or downtime issue. Analyze downtime via Root Cause
New Load Balancing Server Added in London Location
We are adding a new load balancing server in the London location. The new server will go live on April 16, 2012 and will help us to handle the huge traffic from this location efficiently. The IP for the new server in London is 80.76.218.60. We request you to white list the above IP if you have enabled monitoring from London location. For any clarifications contact us at support@site24x7.com.
Site24x7 Monitoring Server Update: New server added in Denmark
We have added one more location to our ever growing global monitoring network. The newly added location is Copenhagen in Denmark. With this addition you can now monitor websites or servers from 41 locations across the globe. Below is the IP address of the Copenhagen location for your reference. Location IP Copenhagen-Denmark 77.66.111.162 If you plan to monitor your websites from this location, ensure that above IP address is white-listed. For any clarifications, send an email to support@site24x7.com.
Site24x7 Monitoring Server Update: Rotterdam (Netherlands) Server IP Change
We have been informed by our ISP at Rotterdam that they are facing some technical difficulties in their data center. Hence they are changing the IP address of our monitoring server. We apologize for the short notice. The new IP details are given in the below table. Location Old IP New IP Rotterdam (Netherlands) 213.163.84.159 213.163.84.160 213.163.84.161 213.163.84.162 134.19.176.30 134.19.176.80 134.19.176.81 134.19.176.82 If you have enabled IP restriction in your server, make sure that you add
Site24x7 Monitoring Server Update: Chennai (India) Server IP Change
The IP address for our Chennai (India) location will change from March 12, 2012. The new IP details are given in the below table. Location Old IP New IP Chennai- India 121.244.182.93 27.251.30.94 We request all our customers to take note of this IP change and white-list the new IP address. If you have any questions or clarifications, do contact us at support@site24x7.com.
How to monitor your Windows servers and desktops using Site24x7 server monitor?
When you run a small business or if you have branch offices having 10—25 servers/desktops, you need a reliable and cost effective solution to ensure server availability. Employing a 'dedicated team' or installing costly software that require another 'dedicated team' to handle that software are certainly not the 'cost-effective' solutions you are looking for. What you need is a simple and easy-to-deploy monitoring software that can keep track of your 'behind-the-scenes' infrastructure. Server monitoring
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