Last week, Comcast.net users had nearly 1.5 hours blackout of their email services. It was inaccessible from 11 PM to 30 minutes past midnight. As per CIO, hackers changed the DNS Server records to point to alternate servers and hence Comcast.net users were unable to check their mails. If an organization’s DNS servers are down or not function...

Firefox users might be interested in this. Here is a simple trick that lets you view your Site24x7 downtime and trouble notifications within Firefox itself, in the Firefox sidebar.

Prerequisite: You have to subscribe to Site24x7 RSS feed in Google ReaderBelow are the steps to view your alerts in Firefox sidebar:

Earlier this month, we'd answered some questions about the Site24x7 Premium account here in this blog. Today, we will discuss another set of questions and their answers here for the benefit of our readers. How many monitoring locations are available for the Premium account? Where are these locations?

With the Premium account, you ca...

We came across quite a few articles and blog posts about Site24x7 in recent times. Just wanted to share some of these articles with our readers. The first article was found in blog.econsultant.com last week. This one has a pretty simplistic style. It is in a 'problem definition and solution' format.

A rather straightforward solu...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes images convey much more than words. That's why we have decided to keep the words to the minimum and focus more on images in this post. Well here are a few images of our newly launched Premium account. Basically, these images depict the steps involved in monitoring website uptime from...

We launched Site24x7 Premium account a few days ago and the feedback has been good so far. We've also received quite a few questions about the Premium account from our users. Just posting some of these questions and their answers here in our blog for the benefit of other users. What do I get out of the Site24x7 Premium account?

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We’d introduced website monitoring from multiple locations in Site24�7 quite a while ago. Now with our most recent update, we have enhanced our multi-location monitoring capabilities and expanded our monitoring network to make it more global in nature. We have added monitoring servers in 4 new locations across the globe - two in the US, and o...

We rolled out some important features in Site24x7 a couple of days ago. Here are a few highlights of this update:

More Monitoring Locations

We are enhancing our monitoring network by adding more monitoring locations. For this purpose,Site24x7 will be down for an update on Mar 25, 2008 between 05:30 hrs GMT to 10:30 hrs GMT . You will not be able to access Site24x7 during this time. Sorry for the short notice and apologies for the inconvenience caused. Update: Due to unforeseen is...

Microsoft released a new public beta of Internet Explorer browser yesterday. It is called IE 8 Beta 1 and is said to be primarily targeted at web developers and designers. The new update seems to have improved security features as well as usability enhancements. It is also faster than previous IE versions. Source: IE BlogTwo interesting new f...