October 2015

10/24/2015

Minimizing the Downtime of Your Website

As we discussed last week, 0 downtime is an impossibility even with the best team, tools, and resources. However, it is possible to drop your downtime from over 8 hours a year to under one hour a year if you put certain practices and measures into place. This week we will discuss some of the things you need to do to minimize the downtime of your site and ensure that you achieve as much uptime as possible.

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10/15/2015

Exactly How Much Website Downtime Is Acceptable?

So you have set yourself up with a website monitoring service and you always know the moment your website goes down. You have your failsafes in place and you diligently go to work to get your site back up and ready for the public as soon as possible. A week later, you get another alert that your site has gone down, notified by your trusted website monitoring partner. Again you go to work to do what you can to minimize the downtime and mitigate the damage.

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10/09/2015

Understanding Website Uptime Statistics and How To Improve Them with a Website Monitoring Service

Most online businesses have begun to understand the importance of partnering with a quality website monitoring service, but not everyone is familiar with how these services work or exactly what the statistics that these services provide mean for their online business. In order to get the most bang for your buck in the world of website monitoring, you need to understand how to read the website uptime statistics that your website monitoring service provides for you.

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10/09/2015

Ways to Maximize Your Website Uptime

In the world of online business, downtime reduces profits. Exactly how much money each minute of downtime costs varies from one website to the next and some website’s losses are harder to measure than others, but one thing remains the same across the board… Website downtime equates to lost profits and no company can afford to just throw money out the window when they could save that money by implementing a few simple measures. Here are some simple ways to maximize your website’s uptime, ensuring that the profits lost to downtime are minimized.

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10/09/2015

How Much Does Each Episode of Website Downtime Cost Your Business?

Almost every single professional who runs a website knows that website downtime equates to lost profits, but the per-minute cost of downtime varies greatly from one business to the next. While it seems like calculating the cost of downtime would be a rather simple and straightforward task, the calculation isn’t as simple as it appears to be on the surface. Before you can decide how much each minute of downtime is costing your company, there are a number of variables that you need to take into consideration.

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10/09/2015

Understanding the Difference between External Server Monitoring and Internal Server Monitoring

If you manage the server that your website is hosted on, then you know that server monitoring is an absolute must. However, when a person begins to delve into the world of server monitoring services, it becomes immediately apparent that not all server monitoring resources are created equal and that there are different types of server monitoring available, including internal server monitoring and external server monitoring. Which type of server monitoring is right for you? Or do you need a combination of both?

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