3 Tools to Monitor Your Website Downtime

Posted by Mgbenka at Friday, January 20, 2012 |

Monitoring your website constantly to avoid downtime is something that is very critical to the success of any website. This is particularly important if the website is making some good revenue already. It is very important because once a website is down several things can happen. First of all visitors trying to access the site will get disappointed and leave, revenue is automatically lost because there are no visitors, visitors who could have become loyal followers of the website may be lost etc. the damage is that can be done is much. The good news is that there are several websites now that offer downtime monitoring services for other websites. There are free as well as premium based services. Some of them are explained below.

Mon.itor.us
This is a very robust online downtime monitoring service. It boasts of rendering its services to about one hundred and twenty thousand websites currently. The service features include internal monitoring and visitor tracking. The frequency of website visits is usually about five minutes and some of the supported protocols include HTTP/HTTPS, POP3, IMAP, FTP, TCP/IP etc. whenever there is any downtime, the webmaster is usually instantly alerted either through an email, SMS message, or pager alert.



Internetseer.com
This service prides itself as one of the biggest website monitor services available with over two million monitored websites and over seventy thousand alerts sent to webmasters. Some of the features of the website that are usually monitored include availability monitoring, performance monitoring, link and image checking, transaction monitoring, historical and detailed check reporting. Reports of alerts sent are also provided. Webmasters are normally notified through an email, SMS messages on cell phone or pager alerts. It has a free service and a premium service but the free service is highly limited with a lot of features unavailable.

Dotcom Monitors
This is another web monitoring service that offers website monitoring, web application and business transaction monitoring, network device monitoring, analysis and graphs, alerts, notifications and escalations. It also monitors web load stress test and multi user support. The monitoring frequency is about sixty minutes and supported protocols include HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, DNS, FTP, SOAP, Video, and Audio. It is basically a premium service and alerts are usually sent to webmasters in the form of emails, and text messages to cell phones. This makes it easy for a webmaster to know the current state of all the applications on their website.