Deployment Of The Server Monitoring Program To Control Your Website

By Author: Vadim Malyarchuk
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How long time ago was you looking at your web site? Can you be sure it is responding at the moment? Now I presume that you starting your web-browser, entering the URL and checking if it is still there. Looks like everything is alright... Well, maybe the page is just saved in the browser cache? One more full refresh... Phew, lucky this time! But are you sure it was up yesterday, two weeks ago, or past month? Most hosting providers promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I would choose to know this for sure.

Imagine that your prospective clients come to your web site when it is accidentally not responding. They see some error message or even the blank page. How do you think, how many of them will come away and will never come again? Well, maybe some of them will do another attempt. But anyway, people would rather make their purchases on the steady and secure websites. When you are doing some kind of online business, you need to be sure, your clients can reach your website and get information, services, or products they are looking for. Any particular downtime leads to loss of customers that, in its turn, ...
... leads to loss of business.

You may say that it is life, downtimes happens, and you can't completely avoid them. This is partly true. You can't avoid them, but you can minimize them! The sooner you will know about the problem, the sooner you can take some actions to solve it. Contact your hosting provider, restart some services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may wish to use ProtoMon. It is a server monitoring software that will automatically check your web-site on a timely basis. And will instantly notify you, if any problems found. It takes only a few minutes to download, install, configure, and start using ProtoMon.

You can create the monitors of the different kinds to control all aspects of your server. First of all you may want to create a ping monitor. It enables you to feel certain that the host system is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web server, download the specified web page and even check its content using the text filters with the support of the boolean expressions. Besides, the software can use the proxy server, and connect to the password protected zones of the website. Also you may want to control your fileserver using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you can receive email messages from your customers and they can receive answers from you.

ProtoMon can start the scripts on your server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then take and check their output. This enables you to check almost each parameter of your server including the CPU load, memory usage and much more.

When any problem happened, ProtoMon will give you a notice by showing the pop-up message, playing the sound file, starting any application or URL, or sending a notification email message to the specified recipients.

ProtoMon keeps full statistics of every monitor on your computer. You will be able to review it locally, using a statistics viewer which includes a nice-looking graph with support of panning and zooming and descriptive hints for even better handiness. Or you can enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon remotely, and review the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using any web browser.