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How recently did you check your website (and also servers and network)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring jobs in any way? Are you sure your website is operating at this moment? Now I suppose that you are opening your web-browser, entering the URL and looking if the website is still usable. Seems like everything is alright… But maybe the web-page was just found in the Firefox cache? Lets do a complete refresh… Phew, lucky today! But can you be sure it was available yesterday, last week, or last month? Most providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I think you would like to know this guaranteed.

Imagine that your prospective customers entering your website but it’s unexpectedly not available. They see strange error message or simply white page. How do you suspect, how much of visitors will slip away and will never browse again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people prefer to do their purchases on the reliable and safe websites. If you are owning any sort of network business, you better be sure, your clients can reach your website and get info, services, and products they are looking for. Any unexpected downtime leads to loss of customers that, in its turn, means loss of business.

You can say that it is life, downtimes happens, and you cannot completely avoid them. That is half-way true. You can not entirely escape them, but you can surely minimize them! The sooner you will know about the error, the precedently you are able to take some action and resolve it. Ask your network provider, restart some network services, etc.

With this aim in view, you may want to try ProtoMon. This is a server monitoring software designed to automatically monitor your network, servers and website in some intervals and in no time advise you when some failures betided. It needs only a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring utility.

You will be able to create the monitors of the different kinds to perform monitoring tasks for all aspects of your network. First of all you may wish to use a ping monitor. This permits you to feel certain that the host network system is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the web-server, download some web page and even check the content using the text filters with the support of the boolean expressions. Besides, the program can use the proxy server, and connect to the password protected sections of the website. Also you may wish to monitor your network using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you can receive email letters from your visitors and they can receive answers from you.

ProtoMon can launch the batch files on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then grab and analyze their output. This enables you to check almost every aspect of your server including the CPU load, memory usage and much more.

If any error detected, the monitoring utility can notify you by displaying the pop-up dialog, playing the sound file, executing some program or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the specified addresses.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your PC. You will be able to review it whenever you wish, using the useful viewer what includes a nice-looking diagram which supports zooming and panning and explicit explanations for even better usability. Or you can use 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.