How Unplanned Downtimes ruin your Reputation

Author: ArunDatacenter problems can lead to unexpected downtimes and can in turn affect your reputation badly. Web hosting provider Navisite found this out recently when they had a datacenter consolidation project that went horribly wrong. They encountered unexpected problems during server migration between their datacenters. This result...


Options for boosting datacenter uptime

Author: ArunThere is a nice article about datacenter downtime problems in the latest issue of GCN mag. This one is by Drew Robb and it touches upon some of the common causes of downtime in datacenters.

The article also discusses some useful options to boost datacenter uptime. These options include having good power and cooling syst...


Scheduling daily/weekly uptime and performance reports

Author: ArunSite24x7's daily / weekly reports are a great way to keep tabs on the uptime and performance of your web sites, applications and mail servers. You just need to configure monitors one time within your Site24x7 account and these reports will start coming right to your mailbox. So you need not login to Site24x7 to know...


Web site monitoring from an end-user perspective

Author: ArunAny business web site owner or webmaster will know the perils of slow-loading web pages and what they can do to drive away users from the web site. One of their main concerns should be to ensure their web pages are loading fast enough for the users. Sometimes the web page might load fast enough for some users but not all user...


Essential tool for a blog

Author: ArunAs we mentioned in one of our earlier posts here, we frequently get to read some articles about Site24x7 in languages other than English. Here are couple of recent such posts from the blogosphere. The first is in French. The article is titled "Les outils indispensables pour un blog (7/9): Site24࿿...


Site24�7 Maintenance on October 13

Author: ArunWe are upgrading our datacenter infrastructure and Site24x7 will be down on October 13, 2007 between 10:00 hrs PDT to 16:00 hrs PDT. During this time, you will not be able to access Site24x7 and your websites and applications will not be monitored. Please note, this downtime will not be reflected in your reports. We...


Configuring Maintenance Schedules to deal with planned downtime

Author: ArunThere are some occasions when you may want to take your web site, web application or e-mail server offline for some upgrade or maintenance purpose. In such cases, you will receive notifications indicating that the site, or the application are unavailable. Since the site is not available when pinged during the maintenance peri...


Simple hosted web site monitoring service

Author: ArunWe recently came across a nice little article about Site24x7 in the blogosphere. This one is by Ajay Prabhu and is basically a short review of Site24x7's web site monitoring service. This article mentions almost all of Site24x7's basic features. Of course, we frequently come up with newer features and enhancements s...


Site24�7 listed in killerstartups.com

Author: ArunKillerstartups has included Site24x7 among its list of killer Web 2.0 sites. They also have included a short review of Site24x7 in their site. The review is titled "Site24x7 - Complete Website Maintenance". Here are a few excerpts:

These days businesses are judged by how professional their website looks a...


Site24�7 - System Maintenance complete

Author: ArunHere's a quick update. The system maintenance is complete and our servers are back online now. You will now be able to log into your Site24x7 accounts and monitor your web sites and web applications. As informed earlier, you will be unable to view performance historical metrics for the next couple of days due to data mig...