November 2014

11/26/2014

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are Right Around the Corner: How Will You Avoid Downtime?

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday being right around the corner, chances are that you have ramped up your site's capabilities to handle the anticipated influx of traffic and sales. This is the one time of year your business can rake in the sales and your customers expect your site to be accessible and performing. If your site goes down during these vital shopping days, that downtime can spiral into lost sales, lost reputation, and a loss of repeat customers. What can you do to make sure your site stays up and running this holiday season?

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11/13/2014

Your Business May Fail without Website Monitoring Service

According to Inc. Magazine, accessibility is the most critical measure of your site's performance. After all, if a customer is unable to access your site then they most certainly can't do business with you. If your customers or clients are unable to do business with you, then your profits are not likely going to be anywhere near what you had hoped when you first set out on your business endeavor. This, above all, is why website monitoring is crucial to the success of your online business.

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11/13/2014

4 Reasons Website Monitoring Service is Mandatory for Online Success

You may have the best website in the world. Perhaps you have invested thousands into SEO services and have amazing content and a layout that makes your competition drool. You may be surprised to discover that if you do not have website monitoring services in place, your business may be going nowhere fast. Here are four reasons why you absolutely must have a quality website monitoring service in place if your serious about your online success.

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11/13/2014

How Website Monitoring Service Can Help Protect Your Site from the Dreaded Blacklist

There is one thing that every single website owner should fear, and that is the blacklist. What is the blacklist? It is a list of sites that search engines refuse to include in their search results. Why is it like the plague to website owners? Because the majority of a site's traffic comes from these search engines, which is why so many websites invest a good amount of money into SEO. However, no matter how much you invest in SEO, if your site becomes blacklisted, it's money down the drain and your business will likely flounder. Here are some things to keep in mind to avoid it.

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11/13/2014

What is Server Monitoring and How Can It Save Your Online Business?

Many online businesses understand what website monitoring is and realize that sometimes it is the one thing that can help make or break their online business. Server monitoring, on the other hand, is still often misunderstood. Many online business owners think that website monitoring and server monitoring are one in the same (as they can sometimes be offered as a package). The truth is, the two services do not always go hand in hand. While both services can be crucial to the success of an online business, they do not always work in the same way.

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11/07/2014

How We Diagnosed GoDaddy's Obscure DNS Outage

Last night the support desk was pinged with several support requests all relating to DNS issues. DNS issues are particularly difficult to understand sometimes, especially when we are reporting your site is down but you can access it in a browser. Other monitoring services may also be reporting your site is up. Unlike your browser and those other services we do not cache any results from the lookup process. That means that each time we resolve your domain name we are getting an 'authoritative' response.

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11/05/2014

Website Outages from 2012 to 2014

Website monitoring is critical for a business online irrespective of its size. Website downtime directly leads to losses. According to a recent survey by Ponemon, a single minute of downtime leads to $7,900 of loss and for ecommerce sites, the number is as high as $66,240 for every minute. 8 hours of downtime on any business day would result in $100,000 loss for all small businesses, and $1,696,000 for big businesses. Website uptime, is therefore, one of the determining factors of business success.

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