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How recently did you monitor the personal website (and also servers and network)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring works in some mater? Are you sure your website is functioning at this moment? Now I presume that you are launching your browser, pasting the URL and monitoring if the website is still usable. Looks like the things are okay… Well may it be the web-page is just stored in the IE cache? Doing a full reload… Phew, lucky today! But are you sure it was available yesterday, two weeks ago, or past month? Most hosting providers promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I think you would like to know this guaranteed.

Imagine that your prospective customers entering your website in time it’s unexpectedly down. They see abstruse error text or simply empty page. How do you suspect, how much of visitors will slip away and will never come back? Well, maybe some of them will do another attempt. But anyway, people would rather place their purchases on the reliable and safe websites. When you are doing any type of online business, you need to be sure, your visitors can browse your server and receive info, stuff, and products they are looking for. Any unnoticed failure means loss of clients that, in its turn, means loss of business.

You can tell that it is life, downtimes happens, and you cannot entirely avoid them. That is half-way true. You can not completely escape them, but you can definitely minimize them! The sooner you get info about the issue, the precedently you will be able to take the action to correct it. Call your hosting provider, check some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may wish to try ProtoMon. This is the server monitoring software intended to automatically monitor your servers, website, and network in some intervals and in no time let you know when some failures happened. It needs just a couple of moments to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.

You can use the monitors of the different types to control every aspect of your server. As a first step you can utilize a ping monitor. This permits you to be sure that the host network computer is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download some web page and optionally check its content with the powerful filters which support the boolean expressions. By the way, ProtoMon can make use of the proxy server, and connect to the password protected sections of the website. Also you may want to check your fileserver using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you are able to get e-mail messages from the clients and they do get your answers.

ProtoMon can start the batch files on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then grab and analyze their output. This enables you to monitor almost any aspect of your server including the CPU load, memory usage and so on.

When any issue happened, the monitoring utility can let you know by displaying the pop-up message, playing the sound file, executing some script or URL, or sending a notification email message to the specified addresses.

This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of all monitors on your PC. You will be able to review it when you need, using the useful viewer which includes a nice-looking chart with support of panning and zooming and detailed hints for even better usability. Or you may wish to enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from your network, and look at the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics using any web browser.