It's 3 AM Do You Know What Your Website's Doing?

It's 3AM do you know if your website is up? What's that you say, Of course it is?" Everyone knows the Web is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Right? Wrong!!! If you don't know how, or don't take the time to regularly monitor your website, then you have no way of knowing if your site is actually up or down and just how reliable your host really is. By utilizing a "Monitoring Service" you can monitor The sites: performance, availability, reliability and security. Servers do need to be occasionally rebooted and depending on the quality of your host, some may have more problems and downtime then others. The old adage "you get what you pay for" always applies here as well. So how do you keep tabs on your website? Glad you asked. There are plenty of online services (some are even free) that will monitor your host's server at specific intervals. For example, some check as often as every 60 minutes and notify you by email or other means whenever your site becomes unreachable. Let's take a look at a few of these services: 1) NetWhistle: http://www.AtWatch.com You can now be alerted immediately when your site goes down. Pricing starts at $17.95 a month and then goes up from there, depending on the plan you choose. You can select monitoring frequencies of 5, 20, or 60 minutes and be alerted of any problems via email, pager or Cell Phone. Sign up for a 14-day free trial. 3) AlertMeFirst: http://www.SiteUpTime.com A free website monitoring service that logs detailed reports of your sites downtime/uptime each month. This service will alert you by email if any problem is found when trying to connect to your site. You can choose monitoring intervals of 30 to 60 minutes. If you need more options, they do offer a "Premium" Service starting at only $5.00 per month. 5) WebSitePulse: 6) SiteProbe: