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When last time was you monitoring your website (and also servers and network)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in some mater? Can you be sure your website is operating at the moment? Now I think that you are starting your web-browser, entering the URL and monitoring if it is still there. Looks like the things are alright… But maybe the web-page is just found in the browser cache? Lets do a complete reload… Phew, lucky today! But are you convinced it was up yesterday, last week, or last month? Most hosting providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I think you would like to know this guaranteed.

Imagine that your potential customers visit your website in time it’s accidentally not available. They see abstruse error text or even blank page. How do you suspect, how many of customers will go away and will never come again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people would rather make their purchases on the steady and secure servers. When you are running any sort of web-oriented business, you better be sure, your clients can navigate your server and receive info, stuff, or products they are need. Any unexpected fail means loss of visitors that, in its turn, means loss of business.

Somebody can tell that this is life, everything happens, and you cannot entirely avoid downtimes. This is half-way true. You cannot entirely evade them, but you can for sure minimize them! The sooner you will know about any issue, the sooner you can take some action to correct it. Call your hosting provider, check some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may wish to use ProtoMon. This is a server monitoring software that will automatically check your network, servers and website in some intervals and in no time report you if any failures betided. It takes only a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this monitoring software.

You will be able to use the monitors of the different types to monitor all aspects of your website. First of all you can utilize a ICMP monitor. It allows you to feel certain that the host network computer is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download any web page and optionally check the content with the easy-to-use filters with the support of the logical expressions. Besides, ProtoMon is able to make use of the proxy server, and connect to the secured parts of the network. Also you may wish to check your servers using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you are able to get email messages from your clients and they can get answers from you.

ProtoMon can start the scripts on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then take and analyze their output. This permits you to monitor almost any parameter of your server including the memory usage, CPU load and much more.

If any problem detected, the monitoring utility can contact you by displaying the pop-up message, playing the sound file, executing some application or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the selected recipients.

This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your PC. You can review it whenever you wish, with the handy viewer which includes a well-looking chart which supports zooming and panning and explicit explanations for even better usability. Also you may wish to enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon remotely, and look at the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics using your favorite web-browser.