Search Results - site downtime

1. How to Be Prepared for Website Outage
May 26, 2018

It never feels good when your website is down or is going through certain performance problems. You may have invested a lot of effort, time and money to maintain your site’s uptime. However, despite your best efforts, a website or a server may occasionally experience outage or performance problems. Technical difficulties are inevitable that may cause the website to be unavailable. Website may also be down for a few hours for an essential security update. The fact is that downtime will most likely have adverse effects on your business. It can damage your sales conversions, profitability and bra... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

2. How Website Downtime Affects Online Businesses
May 25, 2018

One of the biggest embarrassments you could face with an online business is when your website goes down and you hear about it from someone else. Consumers expect that everything around them will be connected online and continuously available. To succeed in this age, you have to maintain a strong online presence. Now, web is the place where you can expect to engage with a majority of your customers and generate substantial part of revenue. However, if your website fails to run smoothly, your online business could be affected in multiple ways. Let’s see a few ways how website downtime can affect... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

3. False Website Downtime Alerts Are More Than a Nuisance
May 23, 2018

There are many advantages offered by using website monitoring service. One of the big advantages of a monitoring solution is that it helps in freeing up time of key people from regularly monitoring the status of the website manually. This time could be used by key people to perform higher value addition assignments. Not only that a good automated site monitoring service can do the job with better consistency and tirelessly 24/7 and 365 days of the year. That is something that human beings cannot match. Many Issues with False Alerts from Website Monitoring Services Despite its many advant... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

4. Website Monitoring Apps - Features and Benefits
May 11, 2018

Today, the success or failure of an organization often depends on its website performance. You know how irritating it is to get a 404 error message when visiting a website. Website monitoring apps are a specialized type of software or service whose job is to keep a watchful eye on your site’s uptime and performance. Uptime and site performance have a huge impact on website usability. Your website may be well designed, with attractive color scheme, usable fonts and great functionality. However, once your site experiences issues with downtime and the speed of the website is sub-optimal. You... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

5. Benefits of Using Website Monitoring
March 20, 2018

If you are a business owner or entrepreneur, you know that every second of website downtime or its slow performance could impact your brand and money. With the increased number of people turning to your site either to purchase or get information, it is essential that your web-site is not only up and running but also is delivering good performance. A key tool for business owners to ensure uptime and good site performance is to use a website monitoring service. The services allow you to monitor any problems that may arise with your site and respond to it promptly. The danger of not using we... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

6. Superior Solutions Offer Advanced Alerting Options to Better Manage Downtime
March 14, 2018

On first observation many website monitoring solutions look the same. The marketing material of various providers also lists out the same features. This seems very enticing especially as some of the solutions are completely free; not even free trials that are available only for a limited number of days. However, not all solutions are alike; there is a lot of variation in the quality and comprehensive functionality that can be offered in website monitoring tools. For example, the quality of computing infrastructure that is being used to monitor the sites can vastly differ in quality. Inferior c... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

7. What to Expect When Selecting a Web Monitoring Service for Your Business
February 28, 2018

If you maintain a website, do make arrangements to monitor it. You might be wondering why you need to monitor your site. It is very important to ensure that your website is accessible for the web traffic. If it is not up or functional, it will affect your business goals. If the site experiences regular downtime and is not fully functional, the primary purpose of the site is not being met. However, you cannot visit your website every few minutes and check if all the elements are functional. Then, what to do? The solution is using a website monitoring service which will keep an eye on your site ... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

8. How to Manage Website Downtime
February 08, 2018

In this digital age, a smoothly functional website offers a distinct competitive edge. If your website goes down it obviously irritates your users. Further, website downtime does much more damage than that it affects your brand loyalty, customers’ trust and ultimately your revenue. The question is how can your business avoid downtime? Let’s be honest. Even by deploying the best technology you cannot ensure zero percent downtime of your site. Causes of Website Downtime Before you attempt to manage website downtime, you should first understand the causes of website downtime. The causes cou... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

9. Top 5 Reasons Why Your Site Needs Website Monitoring
February 05, 2018

In the current digital age, web-sites are an inherent part of your business and their performance is crucial to not only survive but also thrive in the market place. But, do you know how your web sites and blogs are performing? If the web pages fail to satisfy the online users in terms of speed and availability, your business will not only lose credibility but also lose leads and sales as well. In addition, your site could lose its good rank positions in the search results due to slow speed and poor user experience. These factors make it important to ensure that your web site is properly ... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

10. Is Your Website Really Experiencing Downtime and How to Resolve Common Issues?
December 18, 2017

A properly running website is central to the success of your online business. Sometimes, on your device your website may not load. This does not mean your site is actually down, there could be other issues that are causing this issue even though your site is working fine. In order to differentiate an actual downtime from other networking issues, you need to carry out some tests that would help you to find out the reason for the problem. Here are some tests that you can carry out to know if your website is really down or if a device configuration, networking or Internet issue is making it... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

11. How Retailer Websites Can Overcome User Experience Problems?
November 22, 2017

In order to make sure that your online retail website is successful, you must focus on having a site that converts a visitor into a paying customer rate of conversions for your site. Once you have driven the traffic to your site, you need to convince them to purchase the products from your ecommerce site, and this process is not that easy. However, there can be a number of obstacles that can make it difficult for your business site to achieve optimal number of sales conversions from the visitors to the site. In such a case, traditionally you will have to use analytics software tools that will ... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

12. Why Failover Support is Needed for Websites?
November 13, 2017

When you want to attain success with your online business, you cannot afford to have frequent downtime of your website and your hosted applications. When the site is down due to web host failure, the first thing that comes to anybody’s mind is to change the service or opt for a better plan. But this is not the ultimate solution because even the big players in hosting service experience downtime issues. Since the problem is not in your control, when downtime instances happen you just have to wait for the hosting service to resolve the issue. In the meantime, customers suffer as they cannot reac... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

13. How to Manage Scheduled/Planned Downtimes?
October 20, 2017

Website downtimes are frustrating to visitors whether it is a planned event for maintenance / upgrades or an unplanned sudden outage. Sometimes it becomes necessary to take the site offline for routine procedures of software & hardware maintenance and upgrades. When it is a planned downtime for server maintenance and upgrades, it can be properly planned and scheduled to have minimal effect on business revenues. Though planned downtimes are inconvenient, the process can be handled wisely by notifying the customers through emails or displaying error message on websites. If not handled properly, ... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

14. How a Quality Website Monitoring Works when Your Site Goes Down?
October 20, 2017

Website downtime can be equated to lost revenues and opportunities for organizations. During downtime the site goes offline and becomes unavailable to the user activity. Downtime can negatively impact the experience of web users and their opinion on the business and its website. Hence, many businesses have figured it out that a solution like website monitoring service is a must to keep watch over the site's uptime and effectively minimize the downtime. It is a critical service to check website availability and get immediate notification of outages & issues. Before implementing any type of web... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

15. What is an Acceptable Downtime for Websites?
October 08, 2017

Now-a-days, downtime has become major topic of interest for all website owners. Companies that largely depend on websites for business take many possible measures to avoid downtime issues but to their disappointment at least once or twice in an year they come across unexpected outages. Zero downtime is fairly rare for websites because for some reason or the other the site will have interruption in its service. No matter whether the site is on cloud or with a typical traditional host, it has to go through scheduled periods of planned downtime for upgrade and maintenance. Planned downtime is som... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

16. Downtime Issues in Cloud: How to Protect Websites?
September 19, 2017

For many companies, system outages and data losses cause inconvenience in business operations. To avoid this, companies are replacing the long-standing technology such as traditional website hosting with cloud platforms. But the question is how well the new cloud technology is withstanding the downtime issues? Regardless of the choice of the service setup (Public, Private or Hybrid) cloud platforms do experience downtime issues when things go wrong. Along with the array of benefits, cloud comes with certain downsides which can pose a risk to the continuity of businesses and websites. Today peo... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

17. The Importance of Scaling Websites for Traffic Spikes
September 10, 2017

Most business websites start with minimum visitors at the beginning but as they grow the site faces issues to support the influx of traffic. Online businesses have to overcome many challenges to keep their websites running smoothly for customers or users.  Unfortunately many business owners do not realize the importance of scaling their websites until they face the repercussions due to heavy traffic. With users now demanding higher speeds and uninterrupted service, even a small performance issue or an outage of few seconds can frustrate customers. They get irritated and move on to competitors ... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

18. Alerting Options to Look for in a Monitoring Service
August 19, 2017

Site monitoring is more than just checking the status of a website once a while. The main reason why people opt for monitoring is they want a support service for checking their website and get alert when there is any disruption to site availability and performance. Monitoring service provides comprehensive protection from downtime and takes care of all aspects to keep the websites running. Especially for online business owners, knowing the site issues ahead of the customers is very important because they don't want to lose their potential customers. Since online businesses are dependent on web... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

19. Advanced Server Monitoring With a Quality Monitoring Service
July 06, 2017

Online business owners often get confused between website monitoring and server monitoring and think both are one and the same. In some cases, they wrongly depend on the web hosting providers for these services without realizing the adverse impact it can make on their online business. When server monitoring is offered along with site monitoring, besides tracking uptime and downtime data, the service monitors overall health of the servers. It checks for issues caused by overloaded or crashed servers and also tracks bandwidth, firewall, routers and other network aspects to keep website and ema... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

20. Is Your Monitoring Service Helpful? Watch For These Signs
June 20, 2017

The basic need for website monitoring is to ensure proper working of networks, servers, and websites. A monitoring solution helps in early recognition of website errors and enables faster recovery from downtime and performance issues. The service checks working of each website component and presents the data in the form of reports to the site owner. Yet, some businesses don’t understand its importance for their website. Even if they do use monitoring, they are just not sure if it is providing them effective service. Not all third party site monitoring providers offer you the same service.... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

21. Standard Operating Procedures For Website Downtime
May 18, 2017

For any online business, it is typical to experience disruption in online activity due to planned or unplanned website outages. The risk of downtime can come in many forms which can be frustrating to both customers and business owners. One of the options to stay on top of such occurrences is to have support services like site monitoring service that can alert with notifications when the site is down. Yet, the question is 'what is the business's tolerance for website downtime?'. Some businesses follow standard operating procedures in the recovery planning to reduce the downtime impact to a mini... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

22. What To Learn From Website Outages?
May 12, 2017

It looks like there is no end to the website downtime troubles, as they continue to happen to major sites, they leave thousands of users in chaos. Just a few months back, there was a massive site outage of Dyn caused by DDoS attack, and recently we have come across the unexpected site outage of Virgin Money Giving when it announced the fundraising event for Virgin Money London Marathon. The reasons for website downtime could be different, but it caused the visitors frustration when they could not get access to the websites. So the question remains, how to keep the websites protected from these... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

23. How to Deal with Server Downtime Issues?
April 17, 2017

People often get confused with the word “server” because it can imply many types like database server, web server, mail server or even the internal file server within the firewall boundaries of the organizational network. The term that is mainly relevant for websites is web server which is designed to respond to the HTTP requests from the network. The server is responsible to serve the content that form the web pages in response to the user requests. In general, web servers are categorized as static and dynamic depending on how it's been used for websites. Web servers that serve the static con... (read more)

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24. The possible reasons for unplanned website outages
March 18, 2017

Unplanned website downtimes or outages are web service blackouts because the site will be temporarily inactive for user activity. When the site is not performing the way it is intended, then it becomes a serious setback to businesses, particularly to those that depend on websites for generating revenues. When interruption happens to business continuity due to outages, the losses will be significant even if the disruption is for just a few minutes. Since unplanned outages happen suddenly without any prior warning, the owners will not have the opportunity to prevent it. By the time they realize ... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin

25. Why Use a Third Party Service for Monitoring Uptime?
March 08, 2017

Uptime monitoring of websites and servers is crucial in minimizing website downtimes. When website is experiencing frequent downtime and performance issues, monitoring site uptime statistics will help to analyze the metrics that are causing site downtime. Now-a-days, it is becoming increasingly common that online businesses are partnering with third party website monitoring service to get a correct picture of their site uptime numbers. However, some of the site owners are still hesitant as they do not understand why they have to partner with third party service for uptime monitoring while they... (read more)

Author: Davis J Martin