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How recently was you looking at the company’s website (and also network and servers)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in some way? Are you sure your website is available at the moment? Now I presume that you are starting your web-browser, pasting the URL and watching if it is still there. Looks like the things are okay… Well may it be the page is just stored in the IE cache? Lets do a full refresh… Being in luck today! But are you sure it was responding yesterday, last week, or last month? Every provider will promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I think you would prefer to know that for sure.

Imagine that your prospective customers entering your website in time it is accidentally not available. They see strange error text or even white page. How do you suspect, how many of visitors will come away and will never come back? Well, maybe some of them will do an attempt later. But anyway, people would rather do their purchases on the reliable and secure websites. When you are owning some sort of Internet business, you need to be sure, your clients can browse your website and receive data, services, or products they are looking for. Any unexpected fail leads to loss of clients that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

Someone may tell that this is life, downtimes happens, and nobody can totally avoid them. This is half-way correct. You can’t entirely avoid them, but you can for sure minimize them! The precedently you get information about the issue, the precedently you are able to take some action and resolve it. Notify your website provider, review some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may want to use ProtoMon. This is a server monitoring software designed to automatically monitor your website, servers, and network computers on a timely basis and in no time let you know when any failures found. It needs just a couple of minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this monitoring software.

You can create the monitors of the different kinds to perform monitoring jobs for every aspect of your server. First of all you may want to add a ping monitor. This enables you to be sure that the host network computer is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download any web page and additionally check the content with the text filters which support the boolean expressions. Besides, the software can make use of the proxy server, and connect to the password protected sections of the website. Also you may wish to check your network using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to ensure that you can receive e-mail messages from the visitors and they do get answers from you.

ProtoMon can launch the scripts on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then take and check their output. This allows you to check almost each parameter of your network including the memory usage, CPU load and much more.

If any issue found, the monitoring program can let you know by showing the pop-up message, playing some sound file, starting any file or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the desired addresses.

This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your PC. You will be able to look at it when you need, using the statistics viewer which includes a well-looking graph which supports zooming and panning and explicit hints for even better comfort. Plus you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and look at the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics using any web-browser.