Why Website Monitoring Is Important

10.31.2009
By: Dean Mathews, President Paradigm Information Solutions, Inc

Website monitoring is a very important item for a site owner to consider. If your website becomes unstable or unreachable, even for a short period of time, your users will be at the very least skeptical of the product or service you are providing.  Not to mention the missed sales or signups to your service.

By properly implementing a site monitoring solution such as VisualSiteMonitor.com you can keep sleep well at night knowing that your website is up and running

Most Site Monitoring Solutions are web based systems which scan your website at regular intervals(5, 10 or 15 minute). During the scan a log of important information such as time/date, response time and status (up or down) is collected and recorded.  If the website monitor senses that your site is down, an immediate notification via email, SMS (text message) and or a voice message is sent.

You shouldnt stop at a website uptime monitoring, you can also consider adding your uptime stats to your site.  This is somewhat a badge of honor showing your users that you are serious about providing them with round the clock access to your services.  Uptime statistics require that you place a small piece of html code in your site, this is typically a copy and paste procedure. Here is the result...