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How long time ago did you monitor the personal website (and also servers and network services)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in any way? Are you sure your website is up at the moment? Now I suppose that you are clicking on your browser, typing the URL and checking if the website is still available. Looks like the things are okay… But may it be the web-page was just saved in the Opera cache? One more complete refresh… Being in luck this time! But can you be convinced it was responding yesterday, last week, or last month? Most providers promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I bet you would prefer to know this for sure.

Imagine that your potential customers entering your website when it is accidentally down. They look at some error string or simply white page. How do you suspect, how many of visitors will slip away and will never visit again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people like to do their purchases on the reliable and secure websites. Whenever you are owning any kind of network business, you better be sure, your clients can browse your server and receive info, services, or products they are looking for. Any unexpected downtime means loss of customers that, in its turn, means loss of business.

Someone can say that this is life, downtimes happens, and you cannot entirely avoid them. This is half-way true. You can’t entirely avoid them, but you can definitely minimize them! The earlier you get info about the error, the sooner you can take the action and correct it. Call your hosting provider, check some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may wish to try ProtoMon. It is a server monitoring software created to automatically load your network, servers and website from time to time and instantly inform you when some failures happened. It needs just a couple of minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.

You are able to create the monitors of the different kinds to perform monitoring tasks for every aspect of your server. As a first step you may want to create a ICMP monitor. It 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 validate the content using the powerful filters with the support of the logical expressions. Besides, the program is able to make use of the proxy server, and connect to the secured sections of the website. Also you may wish to monitor your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you are able to receive e-mail letters from the clients and they can receive messages from you.

ProtoMon can execute the batch files on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then receive and parse their output. This allows you to monitor almost every aspect of your website including the CPU load, memory usage and much more.

When any issue detected, the monitoring software can let you know by displaying the pop-up form, playing some sound file, executing any file or URL, or sending a notification email message to the desired recipients.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of all monitors on your PC. You may review it when you need, with the useful viewer what includes a nice-looking chart which supports zooming and panning and descriptive notes for even better usefulness. Also you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon remotely, and look at the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using any web-browser.