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How long time ago did you look at the company’s website (and also servers and network services)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in some mater? Do you think your website is functioning at this moment? Now I presume that you are clicking on your web-browser, entering the URL and checking if it is still there. Looks like the things are alright… Well maybe the page is just found in the Firefox cache? Lets do a complete refresh… Being in luck this time! But are you sure it was responding yesterday, two weeks ago, or last month? Most hosting providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I think you would prefer to know this without fail.

Imagine that your potential customers came to your website when it’s unexpectedly not available. They see abstruse error text or even blank page. How do you think, how much of them will leave and will never visit again? Well, maybe some of them will perform an attempt later. But anyway, people like to do their purchases on the stable and secure websites. When you are running some type of Internet business, you need to be sure, your customers can navigate your server and receive info, stuff, or products they are searching for. Any unexpected failure leads to loss of visitors that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

You may say that it is life, everything happens, and you can not totally avoid downtimes. This is half-way true. You can’t entirely evade them, but you can for sure minimize them! The precedently you get information about the issue, the sooner you will be able to take the action to solve it. Contact your hosting provider, restart some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may wish to use ProtoMon. It is a server monitoring software that will automatically navigate your network, servers and website from time to time and instantly let you know when any problems found. It takes just a couple of minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.

You can add the monitors of the different kinds to control every aspect of your network. First of all you may want to use a ICMP monitor. It allows you to be sure that the host network computer is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web server, download any web page and additionally validate its content using the powerful filters which support the logical expressions. By the way, ProtoMon can use the proxy server, and connect to the password protected parts of the website. Also you may want to monitor your servers using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you are able to receive mail messages from your customers and they can receive answers from you.

ProtoMon can launch the scripts on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then receive and check their output. This enables you to monitor almost every aspect of your network including the memory usage, CPU load and so on.

If any problem found, the monitoring software can give you a notice by displaying the pop-up window, playing some sound file, launching some program or URL, or sending a notification email message to the selected addresses.

This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your PC. You will be able to see it locally, with a statistics viewer what includes a nice-looking chart which supports panning and zooming and descriptive notes for even better comfort. Also you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon remotely, and view the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using any web browser.