China monitoring location temporarily unavailable

Our Chinese monitoring location has been temporarily rendered out of service. This is due to an unprecedented disruption of network activity at the datacenter level, and this reportedly affects tens of thousands of websites. You can read more info on this downtime from our web host's blog:

http://blog.sinohostin...


Chinese domain names and their impressive growth rate

What do you think is the fastest growing domain name on the internet? It is the Chinese (.cn) domain. As the Chinese economy is growing, so is the number of internet users in China. In fact, the number of Internet users in China surpassed the US in 2008.

According to CNNIC, there were 298 million Chinese Internet users by...


Introducing website monitoring from Brazil and Sweden

As announced in an earlier post, we’ve recently introduced monitoring servers in Brazil and Sweden. The Brazil server is located in Rio De Janeiro and the Swedish one is at Stockholm.

These additions further augment our global monitoring network and takes the total location count to 17. The Brazil server is our first in South Amer...


Integration to intranet portals, website uptime buttons & more

We recently had an update here at Site24x7. Here is a brief overview of the features/enhancements that have gone into this update.

1. Option to integrate website uptime and performance data into intranet portals/applications:


Avoiding unnecessary notifications during ''Scheduled Maintenance"

There are some occasions when you may want to take your web site, web application or servers offline for some upgrade or maintenance purpose. To prevent your sites or applications from being monitored during the maintenance period, you should configure a maintenance schedule for your monitors and thus avoid unnecessary notifications from Site...


The increasing patronage of Digital Passports

Zdnetasia recently reported that Indian government has announced plans to introduce digital passports to its citizens from 2010 onwards. We decided to take a closer look at what digital passports are and how they are implemented around the world.

What is a digital passport?


Site24x7 for iPhone - Track Website uptime status & SLA compliance from your iPhone

We have just rolled out an iPhone client that can be used to access Site24x7 website monitoring service. The interface lets you connect to Site24x7 and view the current status of the monitors in your account.

This is useful for you to get a quick overview of the status of your web sites while you are on the move. You can view the curren...


Follow Site24x7 on Twitter

Twitter has been taking over the world and many companies now use it as a platform to interact with their users. We, the Site24x7 team, have also been using Twitter to reach out to our users in near real time. You may follow our tweets to get regular updates on new features/enhancements in Site24x7 or to get your Site24x7 questions answe...


Site24x7 - some recent articles in the blogosphere

Once in a while we keep an eye on the blogosphere to understand how website monitoring services are being used by customers. While doing this, we do stumble upon certain blogs which educate their readers about website monitoring services. Here are a couple of such posts which we came across recently.

The first one was in affiliateranger...


Singapore location temporarily unavailable

Our Singapore location is temporarily out of service due to an undersea cable disruption in the South East Asian region. Our hosting provider has put out press release about this. In order to ensure our Singapore location users are not affected, we have shifted the monitoring to our Indian server. All the users who have configured Singapore a...