Posts Tagged ‘service’

Experience With Network Monitoring Tools

I used to use absolutely different monitoring services to check them out. I set up website monitoring for my domain from different network monitoring providers. Then i switched my server for 2 hours… And what i got? I will not mention here exact monitoring tools but i can say that only network monitoring tool from Dotcom Monitor gave me the maximum exact report. And while others can sent only emails or sms, Dotcom Monitor rang me by phone to notify that my server was down. No comments more…

Network Monitoring service is my choice :)

How to Choose Website Monitoring Service

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

  1. Does website monitoring company have monitoring checkpoints in different places of the Earth?
  2. 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.
  3. Does service include such tools as Ping, Traceroute, DNS Query and etc?
  4. Does website server service support notifications by email, ICQ or SMS? Is it possible to check your website statistics using WAP?
  5. Is system of reports usable and clear? This factor is very important because you will have to analyze this statistics and to make summary.