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How much time ago was you looking at your website (and also network and servers)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring works in any mater? Do you think your website is working at the moment? Now I think that you are executing your browser, entering the URL and looking if the website is still available. Looks like the things are good… But may it be the page was just saved in the Firefox cache? Lets do a full reload… Being in luck today! But can you be convinced it was available yesterday, last week, or past month? Most providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I would prefer to know this for sure.

Imagine that your potential customers opening your website when it is accidentally not responding. They look at abstruse error string or even white page. How do you suspect, how many of clients will depart and will never browse again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people like to do their purchases on the steady and secure websites. Whenever you are doing any kind of network business, you better be sure, your visitors can browse your server and get info, stuff, or products they are searching for. Any unnoticed downtime leads to loss of visitors that, in its turn, means loss of business.

You can say that this is life, downtimes happens, and you can’t entirely avoid them. This is half-way correct. You cannot completely escape them, but you can definitely minimize them! The sooner you get info about any issue, the precedently you can take some action to solve it. Contact your website provider, check some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may wish to use ProtoMon. This is the server monitoring software intended to automatically monitor your servers, website, and network in some intervals and immediately advise you if some problems occurred. It needs only a few minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.

You will be able to create the monitors of the different kinds to do monitoring tasks for every aspect of your server. As a first step you may wish to utilize a ICMP monitor. It permits you to be sure that the host network computer is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web-server, download the specified web page and optionally control the content with the text filters which support the boolean expressions. By the way, ProtoMon is able to use the proxy server, and connect to the secured parts of the network. Also you may want to check your servers using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you are able to receive mail messages from the clients and they can get answers from you.

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

If any issue detected, the monitoring program will inform you by displaying the pop-up message, playing some sound file, launching some file or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the specified addresses.

This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your computer. You may review it at any time, with a useful viewer what includes a nice-looking graph which supports panning and zooming and descriptive explanations for even better comfort. And you may wish to use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and view the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with any web-browser.