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How long time ago did you verify your website (and also servers and network services)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring works in any way? Do you believe your website is operating at the moment? Now I think that you are launching your browser, pasting the URL and watching if it is still usable. Seems like everything is perfect… But maybe the web-page was just found in the Firefox cache? Performing a complete refresh… Phew, lucky this time! But can you be convinced it was responding yesterday, last week, or past month? Every hosting provider will grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I bet you would choose to know that for sure.

Imagine that your prospective customers entering your website but it is unexpectedly not available. They look at strange error message or simply white page. How do you think, how much of them will go away and will never browse again? Well, maybe some of them will do another attempt. But anyway, people would rather place their purchases on the stable and safe websites. If you are running some type of network business, you need to be sure, your customers can browse your website and get info, stuff, and products they are looking for. Any unexpected error means loss of customers that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

One may tell that this is life, everything happens, and you cannot completely avoid downtimes. That is partly true. You can not totally avoid them, but you can definitely minimize them! The earlier you will know about any error, the sooner you can take the action and fix it. Contact your hosting provider, review some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to use ProtoMon. It is the server monitoring software designed to automatically check your servers, website, and network in a specified periods and instantly alert you when some problems detected. It takes just a couple of moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring tool.

You will be able to add the checks of the different kinds to monitor all aspects of your server. As a first step you can use a ICMP monitor. It permits you to be sure that the host network computer is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download any web page and even check its content using the text filters with the support of the logical expressions. By the way, ProtoMon is able to use the proxy server, and connect to the secured sections of the website. Also you may wish to control your network using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you are able to get email messages from your clients and they do get messages from you.

ProtoMon can start the scripts on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then grab and check their output. This permits you to check almost any aspect of your server including the memory usage, CPU load and much more.

If any problem happened, the monitoring software will notify you by displaying the pop-up window, playing the sound file, launching some program or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the selected addresses.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your PC. You can see it at any time, with a handy viewer what includes a well-looking graph with support of zooming and panning and explicit notes for even better comfort. Plus you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon remotely, and see the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics with any web-browser.