September 2013

09/25/2013

Are Cloud Services Endangering Your Site's Uptime?

A number of today's websites rely quite a bit on external cloud services. Many websites utilize a number of external services that make up different components of the site. For example, the third-party advertising and social media controls that you integrate into your site may be hosted on cloud services. If any of the resources that your site uses crash, it can significantly hinder your site's performance and appearance or, even worse, bring your site down entirely. Amazon is a perfect example of what can happen when cloud services go bad.

09/18/2013

How Much Does Website Downtime Really Cost?

The goal of a website monitoring service is to alert you the moment your website goes down. The idea behind this is that the sooner you know your site is experiencing downtime, the sooner you can go to work to get your site back up and running. After all, every minute of downtime equates to a loss of potential profits. Exactly how much downtime does the average site experience? Furthermore, how much does website downtime really cost?

09/18/2013

How Does Your Website Monitoring Service Detect Failures?

In the world of website monitoring and server monitoring, not all services are created equal. This is exemplified by how the various monitoring services on the Web actually perform their website monitoring functions. For example, if your site runs into a DNS outage, will your website monitor really know about it the second it happens? The only way to know that is to know how your monitoring service actually checks for website uptime and downtime. Here are some things to consider when choosing a website monitoring service to protect your website's uptime.

09/17/2013

How the Right Error Codes Can Save Your Search Engine Rankings During Website Downtime

When your website monitor notifies you that your website has gone down, your first reaction is probably to worry about the customers who are trying to access your site during the downtime. What you may not realize is that the search engines may be crawling your site at the very same time. What happens if a search engine crawls your site during a website outage? If you don't have the proper error codes in place, the search engine may assume that your website is offline permanently and may remove you from its results.

09/13/2013

How Website Monitoring Services Can Protect Your Site from Hackers

We live in a day and age where new websites are being launched each and every day. Technology is moving at a pace that makes it nearly impossible to keep up. Unfortunately, not all of that technology is good technology. As website tools advance, so do the malicious technologies that hackers use to exploit websites. While website monitoring offers a number of benefits to webmasters and website owners, one of those benefits is another layer of protection against malicious activity.