Website Monitoring – Paid Monitoring Services

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WebSite Monitoring

When relying on your website for business, Downtime is simply unacceptable for a business owner. As simple as it sounds when a hosting company promises 99.9% uptime, it’s never the case. Servers go down for various reasons and some of them are due to overloaded servers with high number of domains, low configuration servers serving critical applications etc.

In today’s competitive world, a smoothly operating website holds the key advantage over your competitor. A website that fails to load or serve its pages in a timely manner loses its visitors quickly and wasting the amount of time and energy invested in the website development. This is without counting the losses of new opportunities and lost sales. Loss of credibility due to downtime is even harder to quantify.

Research shows that a potential client will only visit your website one time and if they are unable to access it, would lead to lose them to your competitor and probably buy from them. The best way to avoid this is to sign up for a third party monitoring service who monitors your website 24/7.

How Monitoring Works

Web monitoring Services have servers located in various parts of the world. The worldwide monitoring servers of the monitoring service keep pinging your assigned port of the hosting account for uptime. Monitoring interval could be 1, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes depending on the plan purchased by you. When your website is down, you are notified via email alert and SMS(additionally charged). The notifications are sent frequently at your designated interval until the service comes up.

The moment your website is down, you will be alerted via email and the same could be forwarded to your hosting company. You could also sign up for SMS alert if you are on the move most of the time. The shorter interval of monitoring is more expensive than the longer interval.

Monitoring Services Pricing

Monitoring Prices varies between service providers and they could be between 2$ to 10$ monthly. The large number of port monitoring could be expensive and ports like http monitoring should be good enough. Some providers offer discount if you sign up annually.

If you haven’t signed up for any monitoring service yet, now is the time to sign up for one. Downtime isn’t something a business owner can compromise with and changing host would be the ideal solution if it is frequent. Setting a copy of the alert mail to your hosting company would also speed up the resolution of the issue.

Have you faced any downtime issues due to not having monitoring in place?