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How recently did you verify your website (and also network services and servers)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in some mater? Can you be sure your website is running at this moment? Now I suppose that you are clicking on your web-browser, entering the URL and watching if it’s still usable. Seems like everything is okay… But maybe the web-page was just saved in the Firefox cache? Doing a complete refresh… Phew, lucky this time! But are you sure it was available yesterday, last week, or last month? Most hosting providers promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I think you would choose to know this guaranteed.

Imagine that your potential clients coming to your website and it is unexpectedly not available. They see abstruse error string or even blank page. How do you think, how many of clients will go away and will never visit again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people would rather do their purchases on the reliable and safe servers. If you are doing any sort of network business, you better be sure, your customers can reach your website and receive info, stuff, or products they are looking for. Any unnoticed error leads to loss of clients that, in its turn, means loss of business.

One can tell that it is life, everything happens, and you cannot totally avoid downtimes. That is partly correct. You can’t totally evade them, but you can for sure minimize them! The precedently you notified about any issue, the precedently you can take some action and fix it. Notify your network provider, review some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may wish to try ProtoMon. This is the server monitoring software intended to automatically monitor your website, servers, and network computers from time to time and in no time notify you if any errors happened. It needs just a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.

You can create the monitors of the different kinds to do monitoring jobs for all aspects of your web-server. First of all you may want to create a ping monitor. This permits you to be sure that the host network computer is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download some web page and additionally check its content using the easy-to-use filters which support the logical expressions. By the way, ProtoMon can use the proxy server, and connect to the secured zones of the website. Also you may wish to check your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to ensure that you can receive e-mail letters from the customers and they can get messages 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 permits you to monitor almost each parameter of your network including the memory usage, CPU load and much more.

When any issue detected, the monitoring software will notify you by showing the pop-up form, playing some sound file, executing any script or URL, or sending a notification email message to the desired addresses.

This network monitoring software saves full monitoring statistics of all monitors on your computer. You can see it when you need, using a statistics viewer what includes a well-looking diagram which supports zooming and panning and explicit notes for even better comfort. Plus you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and view the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with your favorite web browser.