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When last time was you monitoring the personal website (and also network services and servers)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in any mater? Are you sure your website is running at this moment? Now I think that you are clicking on your browser, entering the URL and looking if it is still there. Looks like everything is okay… But maybe the web-page is just stored in the IE cache? Doing a full reload… Being in luck this time! But can you be sure it was responding yesterday, last week, or past month? Every provider will grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I would choose to know this for sure.

Imagine that your prospective customers entering your website but it is unexpectedly not responding. They look at abstruse error message or simply white page. How do you think, how much of clients will depart and will never come back? Well, maybe some of them will do another attempt. But anyway, people prefer to make their purchases on the steady and secure servers. Whenever you are owning some kind of web-oriented business, you need to be sure, your visitors can navigate your website and receive information, services, or products they are looking for. Any unexpected error means loss of customers that, in its turn, means loss of business.

Someone can tell that this is life, everything happens, and you can’t entirely avoid downtimes. That is half-way correct. You can’t completely avoid them, but you can for sure minimize them! The precedently you notified about the issue, the earlier you are able to take some action to resolve it. Contact your hosting provider, check some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to try ProtoMon. This is a server monitoring software created to automatically review your network, servers and website periodically and in no time advise you if some problems happened. It takes just a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring tool.

You can use the monitors of the different kinds to do monitoring tasks for all aspects of your website. As a first step you can add a ICMP monitor. It enables you to be sure that the host network system is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web server, download the specified web page and additionally control the content using the easy-to-use filters which support the logical expressions. By the way, ProtoMon can make use of the proxy server, and connect to the password protected sections of the network. Also you may want to check your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you can get e-mail messages from your customers and they can receive answers from you.

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

If any error happened, the monitoring software can inform you by displaying the pop-up window, playing some sound file, launching any program or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the desired addresses.

This network monitoring software saves full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your computer. You may look at it locally, with the useful viewer which includes a nice-looking diagram with support of panning and zooming and detailed notes for even better usability. Also you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and review the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics using the favorite web-browser.