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How much time ago did you check your website (and also servers and network)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring works in some way? Do you believe your website is available at this moment? Now I suppose that you are launching your web-browser, pasting the URL and looking if it’s still available. Seems like everything is okay… But may it be the page is just found in the Firefox cache? Doing a full refresh… Phew, lucky this time! But are you sure it was responding yesterday, last week, or past month? Every provider will grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I bet you would choose to know this guaranteed.

Imagine that your potential customers opening your website when it is accidentally not available. They look at abstruse error message or simply blank page. How do you think, how many of clients will come away and will never browse again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people prefer to do their purchases on the reliable and safe websites. If you are doing any kind of network business, you need to be sure, your clients can navigate your website and receive data, services, or products they are looking for. Any unnoticed fail means loss of customers that, in its turn, means loss of business.

Somebody can say that it is life, downtimes happens, and you can’t completely avoid them. That is half-way correct. You can’t completely elude them, but you can surely minimize them! The earlier you will know about any error, the earlier you are able to take the action and correct it. Call your hosting provider, review some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may want to use ProtoMon. This is the server monitoring software created to automatically navigate your website, servers, and network computers in a specified intervals and instantly inform you if some failures betided. It needs only a few minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.

You can use the monitors of the different kinds to monitor every aspect of your network. First of all you may want to utilize a ICMP monitor. This allows you to be sure that the host network computer is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web-server, download some web page and optionally control the content using the easy-to-use filters which support the boolean expressions. By the way, ProtoMon is able to make use of the proxy server, and connect to the secured parts of the website. Also you may wish to monitor your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to ensure that you can get mail messages from your visitors and they do get your answers.

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

When any problem found, the monitoring utility can inform you by showing the pop-up form, playing the sound file, launching some program or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the desired recipients.

This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your computer. You are able to review it when you need, using the statistics viewer which includes a well-looking graph with support of zooming and panning and descriptive hints for even better comfort. And you may wish to enable 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.