Why Web Site Uptime Monitoring is Important
So you have 20, 50, or even a hundred niche sites running. How do you keep track of your sites uptime? Do you just log in on occassion to see if they are up and running? What if you could have someone check them all every 5 minutes? And what if they could tell you if the site is just running slow?
If you’ve run your own web site or blog for any time at all then you’ve undoubtedly gone to your site at one point or another only to find it’s not online! Like most of us you probably called your web hosting company (you did get one with a technical support phone number didn’t you?) and they started working on the problem.
The only trouble is how long was your site down? How many visitors did you lose? How many sales were lost? The questions are endless.
But even if your site is online it may be too slow for people to use at times throughout the day. How would you know this? Well truthfully you wouldn’t but what you would see is a decrease in traffic. You might think you’re losing visitors when really it’s just that your web site is too slow.
These questions plagued me for some time about my sites. The good news is there are services that will send you an email (or text message to your cell phone) the minute your web site goes down. They will also measure how fast your site is throughout the day and give you nice graphical reports of how your site is performing hour-by-hour and day-by-day.
I recently came across such a service. They do all of the above and I’ve been pretty pleased with their service on my site. It gives me a lot of piece of mind knowing that throughout the day if my site goes down I’ll get an email.
If I have a day with low traffic do you know the first place I check? You got it!. Why? Because maybe my site was really slow and that’s why my traffic was down!
This website monitoring company offers two flavors of their service Free and Paid (for Businesses). The differences between the two accounts are how often they check your site, if they watch it from around the world or just the USA, and if you get cell-phone text messages alerts or just email alerts.
If you’re a business that’s making any money at all online I’d recommend their business (Gold membership) because it costs you too much money to have your site down. If you’ve got a blog and use it for fun or aren’t making much money yet use the free membership.
Use this link below you’ll get 65% off their premium package when you’re ready to order. This is a special link I’ve been given for readers of my site and it’s not available to the general public:
Start Monitoring Your Website Now
Everyone should monitor his or her web site because you never know the next time your site will go down.
Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post, or posts it may lead to, are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products. However, I will never recommend something that I don’t personally believe in and welcome your questions and feedback.








April 8th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
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April 8th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
This is great advice!
It doesn’t matter how many or how few web sites you have, you can never be checking it all the time to see if it’s up. It’s very important to make sure that your web hosting is doing it’s job, and monitoring your site can help you determine that.
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April 8th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
You are so right, that is something I think a lot of us do not pay close attention to. Thanks for bringing it up for us to take a look at.
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April 8th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Yes, monitoring should be done. I actually decided to just monitor one site at each host, actually I have one site of each host opening up when I start Google chrome. But I going to check out the services you mentioned.
Tks Brett.
Fred
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April 9th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Valuable advice, Brett, made all the more valuable by providing a discount link to save your readers more than they would just by going directly to the site. Also, most people don’t think of monitoring their site’s performance until they have a major problem – your advice can stop that before it occurs!
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April 9th, 2009 at 12:39 am
I guess this is something that many people overlook Brett, but you’re right, it does need watching. I think many people assume that because hosting companies generally guarantee 99% or better uptime that they are safe.
I do monitor my sites and know that all my databases went down three times in the last 2 weeks. They were only down for a short time, but they were down. Yes, it is important to monitor.
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Good advice Brett. And quite timely and appropriate for me. I recently went to login to my blog and could not. My host has a protection system that uses a firewall to block access to my site if someone tries to login unsuccessfully for 5 times.
Someone had and so then I could not. Monitoring would have caught this. I don’t know how long my site was blocked by the firewall, but I try to watch it more now that I know that happens.
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April 13th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Great information Brett!!
I will have to look in to this, it’s something that every person who runs a website should have, not just for Internet Marketers.
Thanks for the link for the discount, it’s appreciated.
Ron
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