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How much time ago was you checking your website (and also network and servers)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in some mater? Do you believe your website is servicing at this moment? Now I presume that you are executing your browser, pasting the URL and watching if it’s still usable. Looks like the things are alright… Well maybe the web-page is just saved in the IE cache? Performing a full refresh… Phew, lucky this time! But can you be convinced it was available yesterday, two weeks ago, or last month? Every hosting provider will promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I think you would prefer to know this without fail.

Imagine that your prospective clients entering your website when it is unexpectedly not responding. They see complicated error message or even blank page. How do you suspect, how much of them will go away and will never come back? Well, maybe some of them will do another attempt. But anyway, people like to place their purchases on the steady and secure websites. Whenever you are owning any kind of online business, you better be sure, your clients can navigate your website and receive information, services, and products they are searching for. Any unexpected downtime means loss of customers that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

You can say that this is life, everything happens, and you can’t completely avoid downtimes. This is partly true. You cannot completely evade them, but you can surely minimize them! The precedently you get information about the issue, the precedently you are able to take the action to fix it. Contact your website provider, check some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may wish to use ProtoMon. This is the server monitoring software created to automatically load your website, servers, and network computers from time to time and instantly alert you if any errors betided. It needs just a couple of minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.

You can use the checks of the different types to check all aspects of your server. As a first step you may want to create a ping monitor. This enables you to feel certain that the host network system is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download the specified web page and even control its content with the easy-to-use filters which support the boolean expressions. Besides, the program is able to use the proxy server, and connect to the password protected sections of the website. Also you may wish to monitor your servers using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to ensure that you are able to receive mail messages from the customers and they do get answers from you.

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

If any error detected, the monitoring utility will give you a notice by displaying the pop-up dialog, playing the sound file, executing some file or URL, or sending a notification email message to the desired addresses.

This network monitoring software saves full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your PC. You are able to look at it when you need, using a handy viewer what includes a nice-looking diagram with support of panning and zooming and descriptive hints for even better handiness. And you may wish to enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from your network, and look at the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using the favorite web-browser.