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How recently was you looking at your website (and also network and servers)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in some mater? Can you be sure your website is running at the moment? Now I forespeak that you are opening your web-browser, pasting the URL and looking if it is still available. Seems like the things are alright… But maybe the page is just stored in the browser cache? Doing a complete reload… Being in luck this time! But are you sure it was available yesterday, two weeks ago, or past month? Most hosting providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I think you would choose to know that without fail.

Imagine that your potential clients opening your website when it is accidentally down. They see abstruse error message or simply white page. How do you think, how much of customers will slip away and will never come back? Well, maybe some of them will do another attempt. But anyway, people would rather make their purchases on the stable and secure servers. Whenever you are doing some type of Internet business, you better be sure, your clients can reach your server and get information, services, and products they are searching for. Any particular downtime leads to loss of clients that, in its turn, means loss of business.

You may say that it is life, everything happens, and you cannot totally avoid downtimes. That is half-way true. You can not entirely evade them, but you can for sure minimize them! The precedently you get info about any problem, the earlier you are able to take the action and fix it. Email your website provider, restart some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to try ProtoMon. It’s the server monitoring software intended to automatically load your website, servers, and network computers in some intervals and instantly report you if some errors detected. It needs just a couple of moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring tool.

You will be able to add the checks of the different kinds to monitor every aspect of your server. First of all you can use a ping monitor. It allows you to be sure that the host network computer is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web-server, download any web page and additionally check its content using the easy-to-use filters with the support of the logical expressions. By the way, the software can use the proxy server, and connect to the secured parts of the website. Also you may want to monitor your network using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you can receive email letters from your visitors and they can receive messages from you.

ProtoMon can launch the batch files on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then get and parse their output. This permits you to monitor almost any parameter of your website including the CPU load, memory usage and much more.

If any problem detected, the monitoring program can inform you by displaying the pop-up form, playing the sound file, executing any application or URL, or sending a notification email message to the selected addresses.

This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your computer. You are able to see it at any time, with the handy viewer which includes a nice-looking diagram which supports panning and zooming and explicit notes for even better comfort. And you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and see the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using your favorite web browser.