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How long time ago was you monitoring your website (and also network services and servers)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in any mater? Can you be sure your website is working at the moment? Now I presume that you are clicking on your web-browser, typing the URL and monitoring if it is still usable. Seems like the things are good… But maybe the web-page was just stored in the IE cache? Lets do a full reload… Being in luck this time! But are you convinced it was responding yesterday, two weeks ago, or past month? Most hosting providers promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I would choose to know that for sure.

Imagine that your prospective clients visit your website and it is unexpectedly not available. They look at complicated error string or even empty page. How do you think, how many of clients will go away and will never return? Well, maybe some of them will do another attempt. But anyway, people like to place their purchases on the reliable and secure websites. Whenever you are owning any type of network business, you better be sure, your customers can navigate your website and receive information, services, and products they are searching for. Any unexpected failure means loss of visitors that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

Somebody may tell that this is life, everything happens, and you can not totally avoid downtimes. That is half-way correct. You cannot entirely elude them, but you can surely minimize them! The sooner you get information about the error, the precedently you can take the action and fix it. Call your network provider, review some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may wish to use ProtoMon. This is a server monitoring software intended to automatically monitor your website, servers, and network computers periodically and instantly advise you when any failures befallen. It takes just a couple of moments to download, install, configure, and start using this monitoring software.

You are able to create the monitors of the different kinds to check all aspects of your server. As a first step you may wish to add a ping monitor. This permits you to feel certain that the host network system is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web-server, download some web page and optionally check its content with the text filters with the support of the logical expressions. By the way, ProtoMon can make use of the proxy server, and connect to the password protected sections of the website. Also you may wish to monitor your network using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you are able to get email letters from your visitors and they can get your answers.

ProtoMon can start the batch files on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then grab and analyze their output. This enables you to check almost any aspect of your network including the CPU load, memory usage and so on.

When any error detected, the monitoring program can inform you by displaying the pop-up form, playing the sound file, launching any application or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the selected addresses.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of all monitors on your computer. You can look at it locally, with the handy viewer what includes a well-looking graph which supports panning and zooming and descriptive notes for even better usefulness. Or you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from your network, and review the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using the favorite web browser.