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How long time ago was you checking the personal website (and also servers and network)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in any way? Do you think your website is running at the moment? Now I presume that you are executing your browser, pasting the URL and looking if it’s still available. Looks like everything is alright… But may it be the page is just found in the Firefox cache? Lets do a complete refresh… Being in luck for now! But are you sure it was responding yesterday, last week, or last month? Every provider will promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I think you would like to know that guaranteed.

Imagine that your prospective customers opening your website and it is unexpectedly not available. They see complicated error text or even empty page. How do you think, how much of customers will slip away and will never visit again? Well, maybe some of them will do another attempt. But anyway, people would rather make their purchases on the reliable and secure websites. If you are owning some type of Internet business, you better be sure, your visitors can reach your website and receive info, stuff, or products they are searching for. Any particular failure leads to loss of customers that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

One may say that it is life, everything happens, and you cannot completely avoid downtimes. This is partly true. You can’t totally elude them, but you can definitely minimize them! The sooner you will know about any problem, the earlier you will be able to take the action and solve it. Call your hosting provider, check some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to try ProtoMon. It’s the server monitoring software that will automatically monitor your servers, website, and network periodically and instantly report you if some problems found. It needs only a couple of moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring program.

You can use the monitors of the different kinds to control every aspect of your web-server. First of all you may wish to use a ICMP monitor. It allows you to feel certain that the host network system is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web-server, download any web page and optionally check its content using the text filters which support the boolean expressions. By the way, ProtoMon is able to use the proxy server, and connect to the secured sections of the website. Also you may want to control your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you can get e-mail letters from your clients and they do receive your answers.

ProtoMon can start the scripts on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then capture and analyze their output. This enables you to monitor almost each parameter of your server including the CPU load, memory usage and much more.

When any problem happened, the monitoring utility will give you a notice by showing the pop-up window, playing some sound file, starting any program or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the specified recipients.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your PC. You are able to see it at any time, with a statistics viewer what includes a well-looking chart with support of panning and zooming and descriptive hints for even better usability. And you may wish to enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from your network, and look at the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using the favorite web browser.