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How long time ago was you monitoring the company’s website (and also servers and network)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in some mater? Can you be sure your website is available at this moment? Now I suppose that you are starting your web-browser, pasting the URL and looking if it is still present. Looks like the things are good… Well maybe the web-page was just saved in the Opera cache? Performing a full reload… Being in luck this time! But are you sure it was responding yesterday, two weeks ago, or last month? Most hosting providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I think you would choose to know that guaranteed.

Imagine that your prospective clients entering your website when it is unexpectedly down. They see strange error string or even blank page. How do you think, how much of customers will leave and will never visit again? Well, maybe some of them will perform an attempt later. But anyway, people would rather make their purchases on the reliable and secure websites. If you are running some sort of network business, you better be sure, your visitors can reach your server and receive info, services, and products they are looking for. Any unnoticed downtime leads to loss of customers that, in its turn, means loss of business.

Someone can tell that it is life, downtimes happens, and nobody can entirely avoid them. That is half-way correct. You cannot completely avoid them, but you can for sure minimize them! The sooner you will know about any problem, the earlier you can take some action and solve it. Ask your hosting provider, review some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to try ProtoMon. This is a server monitoring software designed to automatically review your network, servers and website periodically and instantly notify you if some errors happened. It needs just a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring program.

You are able to use the checks of the different kinds to monitor all aspects of your server. As a first step you can create a ICMP monitor. It permits you to be sure that the host network computer is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web server, download any web page and additionally validate its content using the text filters with the support of the boolean expressions. By the way, the program can use the proxy server, and connect to the password protected parts of the network. Also you may want to control your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you are able to receive mail letters from the visitors and they do receive your answers.

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

If any issue found, the monitoring utility can contact you by displaying the pop-up form, playing some sound file, launching some application or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the desired addresses.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your computer. You can review it when you need, with a handy viewer which includes a well-looking chart with support of panning and zooming and detailed notes for even better comfort. Or you can use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from your network, and view the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using any web-browser.