Web servers like patients which need care. But it is impossible to watch by the server for round the clock. So there is another way. We can use website monitoring and network monitoring service. There is a lot of different website monitoring services both paid and free but it is rather more reliable to use paid website, network and server monitoring services, because you know for what you pay. When we chose website monitoring we have to pay attention
- Does website monitoring company have monitoring checkpoints in different places of the Earth?
- Does the list of services which provided by website and web server monitoring company includes control of HTTP, POP3, IMAP4, FTP, DNS and etc. Pay attention on quality of provided statistics.
- Does service include such tools as Ping, Traceroute, DNS Query and etc?
- Does website server service support notifications by email, ICQ or SMS? Is it possible to check your website statistics using WAP?
- Is system of reports usable and clear? This factor is very important because you will have to analyze this statistics and to make summary.
This system is intended for monitoring of both one and numerous services, which are placed both in local and global networks. Ganglia uses RDD tool for information storage and a number of libraries for representation. One of the most features is opportunity to use history logs to get to know about server performance for the last year, month, day, hour. Another brilliant feature is possibility to use different platforms. This packet includes two components:
Modules which collect information are allotted to different servers.
Central concentrator, which accumulates this data (Windows module is absent at present day)
This packet gives an opportunity to use multilevel concentrators, for example if you have 3 segments you can provide each segment with single concentrator, besides you can use central concentrator for this purpose. The system allows data transfer using two protocols Multicast and Unicast.
In the world of Information Technology and computers specially used for business it is inevitable to have quality software immaterial of the type of business or the size of it. There is an evident shift from the preference of the general software applications that are difficult to handle and maneuver. End-Users don’t want to have supplementary features that they will never use. This is the primary reason for the increased demand of custom software development over generic applications.
Custom software development begins with recognizing client’s goals and the needs of the business. In many situations custom software development has an edge over purchasing a general application in terms of cost because it is developed and designed to meet exact business requirements. One need’nt worry about features and programs that will never be utilized.
It is always very important to select a software team who has taken the enough time to understand your requirement, the type of business you perform and what you want the software application to do for your business to achieve your goals through a consultative approach.
Under an available information, today on February 11th the company Yahoo plans to reject officially the offer on the purchase acted about ten days ago from corporation Microsoft.
Microsoft we shall remind has offered for each stock of Yahoo 31 dollar. Thus total cost of the transaction can make almost 45 billion dollars that approximately on 60 % above a total cost of stocks Yahoo. Against the potential transaction many experts and the companies act. In Google in particular believe that merge of two giants will worsen a situation with a competition in the Network and will damage to basic principles of the Internet - opennesses and to innovations.
As now informs Wall Street Journal referring to the sources close to Yahoo the board of directors of this company has made a decision to refuse merge with Microsoft. In Yahoo consider that the sum of 44,6 billion dollars is insufficient, and the company is not measured to consider any other offers on purchase below 40 dollars for the stock. Differently in Yahoo believe that sale of the company will be possible only provided that for it the sum of the order of 57-60 billion dollars will be offered.
Meanwhile some analysts believe that Microsoft can raise the sum of the potential transaction. And shareholders Yahoo can try to achieve merge with Microsoft. The matter is that business at Yahoo recently go not too well and the quarter profit of the company for a year was reduced practically to a quarter. With the purpose of improvement of financial position Yahoo plans to reduce about 1000 employees that makes approximately 7 % from an aggregate number of staff of the company.
Nowadays HP Quality Center is the leader among tools for automated software testing with the market share of 61,7%. Its closest competitor is IBM Rational product with the market share of only 16,8%.
HP Quality Center is a complete integrated system with a web interface that provides quality assurance management for diverse IT environments. The Center contains a number of applications and usage recommendations designed to optimize and automate testing processes.
Test Director is the core of Quality Center. It consists of five closely integrated modules that ensure continuity of the testing process. The modules are Service Test Manager, Test Lab, Requirement Manager, Test Plan and Defect Manager. Test Direct allows to specify testing structure; it provides publication of reports and helps to establish cooperation between participants. Quality Center also includes such functional testing tools, as Quick Test Professional and WinRunner.
Website Monitoring Software by Datadoctor provides online website performance effectiveness check. In cause of any fail website becomes inaccessible. This software simply works with HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3 and FTP server protocols. The program is very simple to use with Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP, 2003, Vista.
Program resources:
It gives an opportunity to control website effectiveness on-line
Provides support of SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, POP3 and FTP
Provides notifications in causes of fails
Do not requires any specific knowledge
System requirements:
128 Mb RAM
20 Mb free space on your HDD
Operating systems:
Windows 98, Windows 98 (SE), Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows VISTA
Functional website testing process emulates user activity, it loads different pages, uses links, fills up and sends forms, gets email, sends files, tries to hack your website. For example there is registration form. We have to check all possible values for all form fields thus we have to try 2-3 variants.
Email (Is it filled?, Does it correspond with pattern?, Is it unique?)
Password (Is it filled?, Does it contain “bad” symbols?)
Login (Is it filled?, Does it contain “bad” symbols?, Is it unique?)
Then we have to check that we got a correct system message. Functional testing is usually carried out by special people and requires a lot of time. There is a way to make this process easier.
There are two kinds of functional testing tools:
Browser emulators: httpUnit, JWebUnit, WebTester, SimpleTest
Programs which use browser’s API: Watir, Selenium.
Microsoft .NET platform and .NET Framework specification give a lot of possibilities to explore structre and source code of created programs with .NET. That’s why there are some utilities wich are wide spreaded for this purpose.
ILDasm
This utility is part of Visual Studio .NET. This program allows to see Type’s tree and save it to file. ILDasm can work well as window program as command line too. To know more about ILDasm it is enough to enter online “ildasm /?” in command line. If you work in window mode you can define wich data will be reflected (public, private, member types and so on). ILDasm allows to oversight the disassembled methods on screen. At the same time a new window will be created for each method. To do this you can click by mouse twice on tree’s element corresponding to method. If you need to disassemble complete program you can save it to file. And all types will be saved too. But this progrma was made anly for experienced users. ILDasm represents the result of work but not how to achive that result.
Asmex
Asmex can save resources in to a file but only those resources wich were added to assembling such as pictures, icons, text files. With resources like .resources wich were compiled from .resx files Asmex can not work quite. You can examine metadata and see only table contents.
Standard toolbox of contemporary webmaster has to include not only tools for web development and administration but also website security analyzes tools. Such programs are known as security scanner. They imitate plotter’s actions in that way they look for holes in website’s security. Security scanners are numerous, but the most of them are not intended for website security testing.
One of such programs is XSpider, which is introduced by Russian developers. This programs runs under Windows 2000/XP, but websites are scanned by XSpider may be placed on any platform. We have to say that such systems are passive. Scanner can show you holes in your security but can not repair any flaws.
The process of scanning is rather simple. At first XSpider starts scanning of all available ports on a host. Then scanner analyzes next protocols FTP, HTTP, DNS, SMTP trying to find place for future attacks. Next step is availability check of standard directories such as /test, /images, /download and etc. XSpider website security also tests server and other server software such as Apache, Tomcat, SSH, BIND. All revealed defects are mentioned in one report, which is generated by XSpider.
Finally we have to say that user interface is very functional and comfortable besides XSpider has an opportunity for additional tuning.
If your website is no longer simple static page, but dynamic tool which provides some services for your customers, you have to think about testing, before placing it on your server. When your system becomes more complicated the importance of such procedure grows. At present day website are full function portals – shops, forums, email services and etc. All of these on-line services interact with users and other servers. If website is a part of your business, you have to realize that fact that testing can show you how your site performs during loading, interaction with users and etc. So let’s talk about it. There are a lot of different types of website testing and server testing.
Usability test helps you to get knowledge about serviceability. Such type of testing is one of the most expensive, because you can get information only from real users.
Links testing. Such testing is actual both for inner links and external. Besides, it has to be used periodically.
Security test is one of the most important, because business, user’s trust and information depend on website and server security. The main difference from another types of testing in that it have to be carried periodically. Usually testing program simulates real users which try to use all known method of attack your server.
Load-testing ( Stress-test or Performance test ) emulates some thousands of users which interact with your site. Such kind of testing helps you to test not only your website but interaction of all parts of the system – server, webserver, engine and etc.
HTML code testing. There are a lot of different software intended for this purpose. are often included to HTML editors and browsers.
Alchemy Eye Pro – very useful software for network monitoring. It controls network server and performance continuously. In cases of faults it can notify network administrator by SMS or email. It also helps to protect and to improve network performance. It includes ICMP network monitoring, NT Event log monitoring, HTTP(S)/FTP URL internet monitoring, NT Service State server monitoring, Oracle server monitoring, MS SQL server monitoring, SQL monitoring, external monitoring, file existence monitoring, NetBios Lan monitoring, SMTP/POP3 mail monitoring, IPX/SPX file monitoring, VBScript monitoring, Telnet Server monitoring, NNTP Server monitoring, IMAP mail server monitoring, BDE server monitoring, LDAP server monitoring, TCP/IP monitoring.
If there is a necessity “to clean” the computer from unnecessary “dust”, there is a problem of a choice of a software for such work.
Tune Up Utilities 2007 one of the most advanced software for it. It can clear a hard disk of unnecessary files also it is important that this software is able to work with the register, deleting in it incorrect records. This opportunity is very useful as after cleaning “dust” on the winchester, Windows creates records of these action in the register. Similar “stuff” fine brakes work of OS.
By means of Tune Up Utilities 2007 you can make thin adjustment Windows: to change appearance, to choose files and folders for display and concealment, etc. In my opinion operational system to adjust in this program with the beautiful and pleasant interface more conveniently and more quickly rather than to search for the necessary adjustments in most Windows.
One more feature of the program - the editor of objects of autostart. Simply irreplaceable thing when there is a speech about improvement of speed of a computer. For example you have established WinAmp, Adobe Photoshop and still something. And you notice that after that the computer began to work more slowly though at present these programs are not started even not. Why so occurs? The matter is that some programs have “habit”, to be loaded together with Windows, and then to sit in operative memory, eating dear Mbytes. Has no value, whether these programs at present are started or not. To eliminate such injustice it is possible to take advantage Tune Up Utilities 2007. To clean unnecessary programs from autostart very easily - simply remove a tick! Now reload a computer and be pleased to speed Windows.
If you doubt in health of the hard disk and you need to check up whether all with it by way of, take advantage Tune Up Disk Doctor. It will help to eliminate physical problems on the screw and to restore not readable information. For this purpose the computer should be reloaded, further the program will automatically operate.
Among functions of the program ” Optimization and improvement ” is useful function - defragmentator of the register. It can update as much as possible the register having destroyed almost 100 % of all not necessary. Does all it by means of that, reduces fragments, eliminates system defects.
To create the fullest picture of opportunities Tune Up Utilities 2007, it is necessary to note that this package of utilities includes also ” the Utility of Restoration ” and ” the Utility of Destruction “. Names speak for themselves. If you need to restore earlier the removed information ” the Utility of Restoration ” will help to make it. Well, and if you need something completely to remove, your choice - ” the Utility of Destruction “.
I think having read through this clause you have understood that the package of utilities Tune Up Utilities 2007 comprises really unique opportunities. Each function of this program - the irreplaceable assistant in improvement and optimization of your computer!
But there is a lack here I have found out one - Tune Up Utilities 2007 is not free-of-charge.
Official site of the program: http: // www.tune-up.com/
Yahoo has finished to test the authentification system OpenID. Henceforth owing to OpenID more than 248 million registered users Yahoo can apply the same sheaf of a login and the password to access to various a web-services. Now report OpenID support the order of 10 thousand web-sites.
On the sites supporting platform OpenID visitors do not need to be registered and remember the personal data. Instead of it preliminary enough to be registered on a site of “provider” OpenID then it is possible to work with all the web-services compatible to the given report.
Company Yahoo just also will act in a role of “provider” of identification: was registered on site Yahoo users can cooperate with other services with support of report OpenID 2.0. In turn a web-sites, applying OpenID, can add on the pages of authorization the button регистрирации by means of identifier Yahoo for a fast input. Thus, at users will disappear necessity to create numerous accounts and to remember passwords of access to various services in the Network.
It is rather more usual fact that we are alarmed about our future recourse to be banned by search engines. This post is short but gives all necessary information.
1. You can be included in list of banned websites for
2. Link factories. The number of link should not exceed 100.
3. Nonsensical content.
4. Single resource which specially optimized for keywords for automatic linking to another recourse (Such thing is known as doorway)
5. Incorrect website introduction.
Internet becomes more and more popular and effective method of advertising distribution. Today it comes up with television. But in contrast to TV there is bigger risk to be defalcated.
In my post I’ll try to tell to you about some kinds of swindle on website promotion and about possible fatal consequences for you.
It is possible to meet in the Internet a lot of announcements about granting services in the sphere of sites promotion, unfortunately only 10% from them are offered by companies which really promote websites.
There are a lot of cheaters among website promoters. Who are they? Pseudo-promoter usually offers to promote your site for the price which is lower then usual. It is rather profitable and a lot of inexperienced users agree. There is a problem of such promoters: they provide a huge attendance, but what is the quality of such attendance and such users.
Let’s consider some the most popular ways:
Internet Surfing
Internet surfing was popular in 90 years in the USA. The cause of this fact that search engines picked out by the principle of attendance. It leaded to appearance of surfing companies. Surfing companies were websites which paid employers for website visiting. Thus customer had good attendance.
Later administrators realized this problem and changed the principle: search engines reacted only in cases of using of at least one link on the attended page. It was hard for surfer companies. But some companies survived and adapted to new conditions, thus clickers appeared.
Clickers
The principle of attendance was changed a little. To get money for page visiting, they had to load page completely and to find a special link anв to load another content page. So, search engines continued to track unique users. But, soon this principle was changed, and promoters had to rack one’s brains again.
Mailers
There are two kinds of mailers: informational mailers which send you requested information, and spammers. There is always a link in spam letter. But the problem is next: search engines usually don’t pay attention on such websites. The number of visitors of your site will increase, but these users are not interested in your site, thus they are useless.
Let’s consider the consequence of such “black” website promotion method. The main danger of such “black” website promotion method is that your site can be banned by search engines. So such way of website promotion leads to loss of money and to opportunity to be left empty-handed.
Modern corporations developing the software, web studios, agencies, can offer complex services on development a web of sites. As a result, user which ordered website receives not only a number of html-pages with the necessary set of functions but also receives web site which is known by search engines. What it gives? The answer is rather simple: they use site optimization. It is also known as Search Engines Optimization ( SEO ). That means optimization of HTML code, content, structure and design.
There are two ways of site promotion. The first one is called “White”. It includes tweaking of the website for search engines using only conscientious and allowed methods of site promotion. The second is known as “Black”. It includes using of special web pages which are developed specially for search engines. The main feature of such pages is usual absence of text, instead of it there is a set of word-combinations, phrases which are the most popular inquiries in search engines. There are some special cases when ciphered text is used. It is seen only by search engine robot.
Concerning to advantages of site promotion, it consists in a process of increasing of number of mentions in the Internet. The statistics shows that 80 percent of users visiting sites find them using search engines. So it turns out, that promotion of sites guarantees attraction of a plenty of visitors on a site, also if it is a question of promotion of a corporate site then we can except not only increase of attendance but also growth of respectability of corporation.
Actually search engines optimization is heavy process which demands not few payments and consists of four stages: structural website optimization, analysis of popularity of a website in global network, site information optimization, rising of mentioning in the Internet, website support. If you want to have website which is known by search engines and has a good attendance you have not to save on website promotion.
According to the statistics published by French analytical company XiTi Monitor share of Firefox in the market of browsers in the past year has continued the growth. Mainly due to reduction of a share of browser Internet Explorer. Most strongly positions of an alternative browser have got stronger in the European territory.
According to XiTi for December of the last year market share of Forefox made 28 %. Thus year earlier this parameter did not exceed 23,1 %, and two years ago - 20 %. The greatest love to a browser from Mozilla is shown by inhabitants of Finland where Firefox use about 45,5 % of users. On the second and third place among the European countries there is Slovenia (44,6 %) and Poland (42,4 %) informs ArsTechnica.
In December of the last year the share of browser Internet Explorer was reduced to 0,9 % - up to 66,1 %. During same period Firefox was possible to strengthen the presence in the market on 0,7 %. It is remarkable that only 2 % from the general number of the European users use browser Safari.
It is interesting that only half of users of Interner Explorer work with the seventh version of a browser. Thus of 93 % of supporters Firefox prefer the second version ” fiery the fox “. Meanwhile, in opinion of analysts, the output of final version Firefox 3 (now there is a beta-testing) will provoke the next growth of the user base of a browser.
Californian company Azingo (former Celunite) has presented the same name operational system on the basis of kernel Linux intended for use on mobile devices.
Under statements of founders, OS Azingo Mobile is the first platform constructed on the basis of development of organization LiMo Foundation based in the beginning of the last year by companies Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung and Vodafone. The Primary goal of project LiMo consists in creation of the unified program platform on the basis of Linux intended for use on mobile phones, communicators and so on. By the way Azingo also is member of LiMo Foundation.
In Azingo especially emphasize that the new operational system is the fullest among all similar platforms. Structure of Azingo Mobile besides a kernel and base components includes accompanying applications, connecting the software and tools of development. All applications in Azingo Mobile are divided into four groups - Mobile Entertainment (mediaplayers, a photo gallery), Mobile Internet (a browser, the RSS-reader and so forth), Mobile Productivity (tools for work with documents) and Mobile Communications (tools of communications).
Developers carry flexibly adjusted user interface to basic advantages Azingo Mobile with support of touch input and animation, support of scaled fonts, tools of localization, and also an opportunity of work with the chamber. Platform Azingo Mobile is already accessible to licensing. In company Azingo mark that negotiations about release of portable devices on the basis of new OS are conducted with several known suppliers however their names are not specified. The first devices on the basis of Azingo Mobile can appear on sale more close by the end of current year.
The website being a part of IT world plays the important role in development and promotion of business. The most important currency in internet is attention of users. Site which has problems with loading, execution are not attractive for visitors. Furthermore your website is your face in the Internet and site which is often inaccessible loses constant partners.
The only way to be fully confident is to use website monitoring and website server monitoring.
Website monitoring service helps you to be sure the web site is accessible, has proper content, and is maintaining good performance. There are a number of companies which provide such services. One of the leading companies in this sphere is Dotcom-monitor. They provide next services:
Website monitoring
Dotcom-Monitor has remote agents which are positioned around the world and the have an opportunity to work like an Internet browser. They will start website monitoring and server monitoring immediately after creation of an account. Website monitoring service by Dotcom-monitor has some specific features which distinguish it from other services, such as
Accessibility & Availability Check
Performance Check
Content Check
Form Submission
Secure Sites
Server Digital Certificates
Client Digital Certificate
Cookie Support.
Network Monitoring
Due to this service you are kept informed about your network’s status, availability and performance of network applications. There are a lot of network monitoring tools but I’ll list the most important: FTP Monitoring Service, POP3 Monitoring Service, SMTP Monitoring Service, SMTP/POP3 Monitoring Service, DNS Monitoring Service, DNS Blacklist Monitoring, Ping/ICMP Monitoring Service, Port Monitoring Service, Web Service SOAP/HTTP Monitoring Service, UDP Monitoring Service, Temperature Monitoring Service and Custom Script Monitoring Service.
Web Load Stress Test
With the growth of your site the number of loads on your website, web applications and network infrastructure grow too. This service helps us to get information about such important points as:
Position of bottlenecks on your site.
Performing of website under certain loads.
A number of users can you site handle.
As I have already mentioned there is a great number of different companies such as site24×7, Mon.itor.us, HostTracker. You can also try them but I have been used it for two years and I have no any complaint.
The attendance is very important factor even for small private website. One of the most effective methods to increase the number of visitors is search engines optimization. You need some tools for this for example Se Monitor which can provide both optimization statistics and special optimization features. There are lots of different features, but I’ll introduce the most important.
Website Indexation – Se Monitor shows pages which are known by search engines, but also their search weight in Google PR.
Log Analyzer - supports IIS formats and Apache. The next information are analyzed: the number of unique IP, the number of visitors, the number of visitors from search engines.
Monitoring of External Links - During the process of searching links Se Monitor determines PR of link pages and there linking text.
HTML Analyzer – gives an opportunity to get full statistics of words and word-combinations not only on separate pages, but also on website as a whole.
Google Data-Centers – This feature helps to forecast your PR after next Google dance.
Se Monitor is intended for monitoring and for statistics. There is only one defect – there is no full help information.
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