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How long time ago was you looking at the company’s website (and also servers and network)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in any mater? Do you believe your website is servicing at this moment? Now I think that you are opening your browser, entering the URL and checking if it is still present. Looks like everything is okay… Well maybe the page was just found in the browser cache? Lets do a complete refresh… Phew, lucky today! But can you be convinced it was available yesterday, two weeks ago, or past month? Every provider will promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I think you would like to know this for sure.

Imagine that your potential customers came to your website when it is unexpectedly down. They look at abstruse error text or even blank page. How do you suspect, how much of visitors will come away and will never visit again? Well, maybe some of them will do an attempt later. But anyway, people would rather make their purchases on the stable and secure websites. When you are doing some type of network business, you need to be sure, your visitors can navigate your website and receive information, services, or products they are searching for. Any unexpected failure means loss of visitors that, in its turn, means loss of business.

One can tell that this is life, everything happens, and you can’t entirely avoid downtimes. This is partly correct. You can’t totally elude them, but you can surely minimize them! The sooner you get info about the problem, the precedently you can take some action to fix it. Contact your hosting provider, review some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to use ProtoMon. It is the server monitoring software designed to automatically check your servers, website, and network from time to time and in no time notify you if any errors occurred. It takes just a couple of minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this monitoring software.

You can add the checks of the different types to do monitoring tasks for every aspect of your web-server. First of all you can create a ping monitor. This allows you to feel certain that the host network computer is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download some web page and optionally check its content with the easy-to-use filters which support the logical expressions. Besides, the program is able to make use of the proxy server, and connect to the secured parts of the website. Also you may wish to check your fileserver using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to ensure that you can receive e-mail messages from the clients and they do receive your answers.

ProtoMon can start the batch files on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then receive and check their output. This allows you to monitor almost any parameter of your website including the CPU load, memory usage and so on.

If any issue detected, the monitoring software will inform you by displaying the pop-up dialog, playing the sound file, starting any file or URL, or sending a notification email message to the specified recipients.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your PC. You may look at it when you need, using the handy viewer what includes a nice-looking graph which supports zooming and panning and descriptive explanations for even better handiness. Or you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon remotely, and review the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics using the favorite web-browser.