August 2014

08/20/2014

What Happens When eBay Goes Down?

We all know that website downtime often equates to lost profits for a business, but what happens when people use the site that goes down to make money? It causes a domino effect that sets the online community abuzz. That's exactly what happened last week when eBay went down for approximately three hours, leaving sellers in the lurch and frustrating bidders.

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08/13/2014

What You Should Be Looking for in a Website Monitoring Service

Here at Alertra, we tout the features of our website monitoring service. After all, when you have a service that can truly help website businesses succeed and improve their bottom line profits, it is only natural to toot your own horn. What many people don't understand, however, is why some of the features we offer at Alertra are so important. If you want to truly understand the benefits that website monitoring service has to offer, then you need to understand why certain features are so important.

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08/06/2014

Partial Website Downtime: Are All of Your Website's Pages Working?

We all know the importance of website uptime and how harmful website downtime can be, but what some don't realize is that even a partial outage of your site can equate to significant losses as well, as a follower of Alertra pointed out recently. If even just one page of your site goes down, one link doesn't work properly, it can have a drastic impact on profits.

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