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How much time ago did you verify your website (and also servers and network)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in any way? Do you believe your website is working at this moment? Now I presume that you are launching your browser, typing the URL and looking if the website is still present. Seems like the things are good… But maybe the page is just saved in the Opera cache? Performing a complete refresh… Phew, lucky for now! But can you be convinced it was up yesterday, two weeks ago, or last month? Every hosting provider will grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I would choose to know that guaranteed.

Imagine that your potential customers opening your website but it’s accidentally down. They look at abstruse error string or simply white page. How do you think, how much of customers will slip away and will never return? Well, maybe some of them will perform an attempt later. But anyway, people prefer to make their purchases on the steady and secure servers. When you are running any type of web-oriented business, you need to be sure, your visitors can navigate your website and receive information, services, or products they are looking for. Any particular error leads to loss of customers that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

One can say that this is life, everything happens, and you can not completely avoid downtimes. This is half-way correct. You can not totally elude them, but you can surely minimize them! The precedently you notified about the problem, the sooner you are able to take the action and correct it. Notify your network provider, restart some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to use ProtoMon. It’s the server monitoring software designed to automatically load your website, servers, and network computers in a specified intervals and instantly alert you when any problems betided. It takes only a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this monitoring software.

You can add the monitors of the different types to control every aspect of your website. As a first step you may want to utilize a ping monitor. It permits you to be sure that the host network system is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download the specified web page and additionally check its content using the easy-to-use filters with the support of the boolean expressions. Besides, ProtoMon is able to use the proxy server, and connect to the password protected parts of the network. Also you may wish to monitor your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you can get mail letters from your clients and they do get answers from you.

ProtoMon can launch the scripts on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then take and check their output. This permits you to monitor almost each parameter of your server including the memory usage, CPU load and so on.

When any error happened, the monitoring program will contact you by displaying the pop-up message, playing some sound file, starting some program 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 PC. You will be able to review it when you need, with the useful viewer which includes a nice-looking diagram which supports panning and zooming and detailed explanations for even better comfort. And you can enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from your network, and look at the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with the favorite web-browser.