Yesterday we discussed the different types of website downtime, what causes downtime and why it is so detrimental to your business. We also promised to provide you with a survival guide for those inevitable times when your website will go down – and trust us, it is indeed a matter of when, not if.
We talk a lot about website downtime in this blog. We are, after all, the uptime experts and we do everything we can to ensure that our customers have as little downtime as possible.
In the World Wide Web, there really is no governing body that tells us what we can and cannot do. Words can be thrown around and no one can really say or do anything about it. People can do what they want (for the most part) and not have to worry about paying any repercussions – until now.
We’ve talked about how important it is for your site to be capable of handling traffic spikes and steadily-increasing website traffic. If your site is a retail site, this time of year the message couldn’t be more important.
Yesterday we talked about the importance of a website monitoring service to let you know when your website goes down. It seems as though the FAA should have taken our advice. With travelers around the United States relying on the FAA to provide them with updates regarding their flights, the FAA website went down for the count the day before Thanksgiving.
Over the past weeks we have talked about the importance of knowing when your website goes down. After all, it’s quite embarrassing if your customers are the ones who have to tell you that your website is experiencing issues and it’s even worse if you don’t receive those customer emails because there are also issues with your email server.
It appears that Disney has announced they will be discontinuing their Web movie service as of December 31, 2012. What is the reason behind the decision?
A little while back we discussed a new form of terrorism that has been taking place across the globe. Millions of people “live” online, using the Internet to bank, pay bills, socialize, go to school and even work from home.
A lot of people ask why they should pay for website monitoring services when they can simply sign up for one of the many free website monitoring services available on the Web.
https://www.alertra.comMany website owners woke up Monday to discover that their websites were not online. Those who are Alertra customers were already aware of this fact as we sent notifications when websites went down.
For some fans, football is serious business. With the advent of the Internet, the excitement of football made its way to the World Wide Web and fantasy football was born.
Over the past week we’ve talked quite a bit about website uptime and how an inadequate hosting plan can affect that uptime. Bandwidth has been mentioned quite a few times in regards to finding a hosting plan that will accommodate your website’s needs.
Over the past few days we’ve mentioned that it’s important to ensure that your website’s hosting plan is adequate enough to support any spikes in traffic, or even steadily increasing traffic, that your website may receive.
It was just a few days ago we blogged about ensuring that your website was ready for growth and success. It seems that some should have implemented that advice as political sites across the World Wide Web were being taken down on Tuesday due to an overload of traffic.
In light of Hurricane Sandy, we have to ask ourselves one simple, straightforward and honest question – can you really bulletproof your website from downtime 100 percent of the time? Yes, disaster recovery plans are crucial.
https://www.alertra.comIt seems like a simple enough question… Are you ready for your website to become successful? Most people would answer, “Yes, of course!” Increased success equates to increased profits and an improved lifestyle.
There’s no doubt about it. Hurricane Sandy has taken a toll on the nation due to the website outages it caused this past week. While the stress and frustration that ensued was unavoidable, many website owners took measures to mitigate the damage done and comminicated via other mediums, such as social media sites.
