Site24�7 in 2007 - A recap of the year gone by
Author: ArunAs we come to the end of year 2007, we thought it might be an appropriate time to look at what we've done this year and how far we have come. So here is a quick recap of the year gone by. Site24x7 was a Beta service for the first 2 months of the year. We came out of Beta in March and introduced our paid plan (Profes...
Monitoring Site Downtime with Site24�7
Author: ArunWe recently came across a very nice article about Site24x7 in the blogosphere. This article was written by Anand and is titled "Monitoring Site Downtime". Below are a few excerpts from the article:
If something goes wrong with my site, I like to know of it. My top three problems are:
Festive offer from Site24�7
Author: ArunIts festive season worldwide and we are taking this opportunity to provide you with some fantastic bargains on Site24x7. We are giving a flat 40% discount for upgrades to Professional account. Just upgrade your Site24x7 Free/Trial account to Professional and get 40% off on your first payment. No strings attache...
Stay on top of website downtimes with Site24�7
Author: ArunJust thought of sharing some feedback we received recently. The first one is from Christian Markley of THP, a long-term user of Site24x7. "Site24x7 has been an invaluable tool to help me stay on top off my websites' downtimes and problems. The notifications have come at the same time that I would get notifications f...
Answering your Site24�7 Alerts/Reports questions (part 1)
Author: ArunIn an earlier blog post, we had answered some common questions with regards to the Site24x7 free account. Today, we would like to answer some recent questions related to the alerts & reports section. I'm trying to delete an email and sms contact from the alerts page, but it does nothing. How do I delete someone who h...
Online store debacle on Cyber-Monday
Author: ArunThe holiday shopping season in the US brings in lots of traffic to online stores every year. This year has been no different either. Unfortunately, online stores who had their e-commerce solutions hosted through Yahoo Store found their shopping carts going down at the wrong time, on "Cyber-Monday". Needless to say, ...
Underground data center to reduce energy consumption
Author: ArunIn an effort to reduce energy consumption in data centers, SunMicrosystems is planning to lower their Blackbox into an underground coal mine in Japan. The main advantage with this underground data center is of course less energy consumption than the usual ground-level data center. Excerpts from a Techworld article:
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...