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When last time did you monitor your website (and also servers and network services)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring works in some mater? Do you believe your website is up at this moment? Now I forespeak that you are starting your web-browser, pasting the URL and looking if the website is still available. Seems like the things are perfect… But maybe the page is just stored in the Opera cache? Lets do a full reload… Phew, lucky for now! But are you sure it was available yesterday, last week, or past month? Every hosting provider will promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I think you would prefer to know this without fail.

Imagine that your prospective customers visit your website in time it is unexpectedly not available. They look at abstruse error string or even blank page. How do you think, how much of them will leave and will never come again? Well, maybe some of them will perform an attempt later. But anyway, people prefer to do their purchases on the steady and safe websites. Whenever you are running some type of Internet business, you need to be sure, your visitors can reach your server and receive info, stuff, or products they are need. Any unnoticed failure means loss of customers that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

You may say that this is life, downtimes happens, and you cannot entirely avoid them. This is partly true. You cannot completely escape them, but you can for certain minimize them! The precedently you get info about the issue, the precedently you can take the action to solve it. Email your website provider, restart some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may wish to try ProtoMon. It is a server monitoring software designed to automatically monitor your website, servers, and network computers in a specified intervals and in no time advise you when some failures happened. It needs just a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.

You can create the monitors of the different types to perform monitoring jobs for all aspects of your web-server. As a first step you may wish to use a ICMP monitor. This enables you to be sure that the host network system is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web-server, download some web page and optionally check the content using the text filters with the support of the boolean expressions. By the way, the program is able to make use of the proxy server, and connect to the password protected sections of the network. Also you may wish to control your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to ensure that you are able to receive mail messages from your visitors and they do receive answers from you.

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

If any error found, the monitoring program will give you a notice by displaying the pop-up dialog, playing the sound file, executing some application or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the selected addresses.

This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your PC. You will be able to look at it at any time, with the statistics viewer which includes a nice-looking chart which supports panning and zooming and explicit explanations for even better usefulness. Also 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 using the favorite web-browser.