Introducing Web site Monitoring from France, Ireland and Virginia

We are also planning to add more servers in near future, so stay tuned to this space.


The cascading effect of DNS failure

A friend of mine recently had his website going down for a couple of hours. Since there was no prior communication from his web host regarding the downtime, he got frustrated and tried to contact them through email. To his utter dissatisfaction, his mail bounced with the below error message:         This message was created a...

Facebook becomes most visited website in the US

Analyst firm Hitwise reported that Facebook has overtaken Google to become the #1 website in the US. According to Hitwise, Facebook surpassed Google in terms of traffic for the week ending March 13, 2010.

Although FaceBook and Google serve two different purposes, this is a significant development in the Internet world. For quite a ...


IP address change in London and New Jersey monitoring servers

As the load on our London server is growing, we have moved our monitoring to a new high end server. So, if you have IP restriction in your server, you have to reconfigure the newer London server ip address in the allowed ip list. This is to make sure that our requests come through properly. The new ip addresses of our London server are: 213.175....

SMS Alert Problem for US Customers

We are using clickatell gateway for delivering SMS alerts to our users. Currently there is a problem in clickatell gateway for delivering SMS to US numbers. We are hoping this problem will be resolved soon. Updates on the same is available at http://support.clickatell.com/us_notifications.php If you have mail-to-sms provision with your serv...

Myspace updates go live on Google search

MySpace, the social networking site, has been lying low for a while. Once the top social networking site in the world, MySpace has seen Facebook and later Twitter overtake them in terms of popularity and number of users. While there may be many reasons for the downfall of Myspace, they are certainly trying to be back in the reckoning now. Thi...


Improve Web Application Performance using Site24x7

Webmasters and website owners will know how important it is to ensure their web applications are performing as expected for end users. Site24x7’s web application monitor makes it easier for them to keep track of the availability and performance of web applications such as customer logins or shopping cart purchases. The monitor sends out...


Happy Holidays from Site24x7

It has been an exciting and eventful year for us here at Site24x7. We grew a lot this year, both in terms of features added to our monitoring service as well as expanding our user base. Here is a quick recap of what went into Site24x7 in 2009.

- Five new locations were added to our global monitoring network. Servers were added in China,...


Twitter's unplanned downtime and the importance of monitoring website content

As you must have known by now, Twitter was recently hacked and defaced by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army. The hackers managed to compromise Twitter's DNS records and left a defacement message on the website. Both twitter.com and status.twitter.com were down and some users faced a temporary problem with sending tweets. Ther...


Special Holiday Offer from Site24x7 - Get 40% off your first bill

It's festive time in most parts of the world now and in keeping with this spirit, we are offering some cool bargains on Site24x7.

If you upgrade to a monthly subscription, you will get 30% off your first bill. If you choose yearly subscription, you will get 40% off your first bill. This offer is applicable on all our user...