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How much time ago did you check the personal website (and also network and servers)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in some mater? Do you believe your website is working at this moment? Now I presume that you are starting your web-browser, typing the URL and looking if the website is still there. Seems like everything is good… Well may it be the web-page was just found in the browser cache? One more complete reload… Being in luck for now! But can you be sure it was responding yesterday, last week, or past month? Most hosting providers promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I bet you would choose to know that for sure.

Imagine that your prospective customers came to your website when it’s unexpectedly not available. They look at some error message or simply blank page. How do you suspect, how many of them will depart 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. If you are owning any kind of online business, you need to be sure, your visitors can browse your website and get information, services, and products they are need. Any unnoticed fail means loss of clients that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

You may say that it is life, downtimes happens, and you can not completely avoid them. That is partly correct. You cannot completely elude them, but you can definitely minimize them! The sooner you notified about the error, the earlier you will be able to take the action and solve it. Email your hosting provider, restart some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may want to use ProtoMon. It is a server monitoring software intended to automatically navigate your servers, website, and network on a timely basis and in no time notify you when any failures detected. It takes only a couple of moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring program.

You can add the checks of the different types to monitor every aspect of your web-server. As a first step you may want to use a ping monitor. This allows you to be sure that the host network system is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download the specified web page and additionally control its content using the text filters with the support of the boolean expressions. Besides, the program is able to make use of the proxy server, and connect to the password protected sections of the network. Also you may want to control your fileserver using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you are able to get e-mail messages from the visitors and they do receive your answers.

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

When any error found, the monitoring tool can contact you by displaying the pop-up form, playing some sound file, starting some file or URL, or sending a notification email message to the desired addresses.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of all monitors on your computer. You may look at it locally, with a useful viewer which includes a well-looking graph with support of zooming and panning and detailed explanations for even better handiness. Or you can enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and look at the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics with any web browser.