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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.

Website Monitoring Software

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

Website Testing Tools

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.