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How long time ago was you checking the personal website (and also network and servers)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in some mater? Do you think your website is functioning at this moment? Now I suppose that you are clicking on your web-browser, entering the URL and monitoring if it is still present. Looks like everything is perfect… Well maybe the web-page was just stored in the browser cache? One more complete reload… Phew, lucky this time! But can you be sure it was responding yesterday, last week, or past month? Most hosting providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I think you would prefer to know that without fail.

Imagine that your potential customers opening your website and it’s unexpectedly down. They see complicated error message or even empty page. How do you suspect, how much of clients will go away and will never browse again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people like to place their purchases on the steady and safe websites. Whenever you are running some type of web-oriented business, you need to be sure, your customers can reach your server and receive information, stuff, or products they are searching for. Any unnoticed failure leads to loss of customers that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

Somebody can say that it is life, downtimes happens, and nobody can entirely avoid them. That is partly correct. You can’t completely avoid them, but you can for sure minimize them! The sooner you get info about the problem, the sooner you can take some action and fix it. Contact your hosting provider, check some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may wish to try ProtoMon. This is a server monitoring software intended to automatically review your website, servers, and network computers on a timely basis and in no time advise you when any problems occurred. It needs only a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring program.

You are able to create the checks of the different types to perform monitoring jobs for every aspect of your network. As a first step you may wish to utilize a ping monitor. This enables you to feel certain that the host network computer is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web-server, download some web page and additionally control the content with the text filters which support the logical expressions. By the way, the software can use the proxy server, and connect to the secured sections of the website. Also you may wish to monitor your fileserver using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you can receive mail messages from your customers and they do receive messages from you.

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

If any issue found, the monitoring program can notify you by displaying the pop-up form, playing the sound file, starting some program or URL, or sending a notification email message to the selected recipients.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your PC. You may see it locally, using a useful viewer which includes a well-looking chart which supports panning and zooming and descriptive notes for even better handiness. Plus you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from your network, and look at the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with any web-browser.