nce you've gone through services will check your site
the process of building regularly and automatically
your website, finding a notify you if the site is down or
reliable host and getting it all running slower than it should.
up and running, you will likely
want to be sure it's up and Prices for monitoring services
running 24 hours a day, 7 days a range anywhere from $5 to $60 per
week. month. There are even some
services that are free but the
But you probably don't want to paid options offer more features
spend time every day checking the and you can usually check
site to make sure it is working multiple sites with the same
the way it should. After all, you service.
have other more important work to
do, right? Monitoring is not continuous -
they generally check your site
Unfortunately, there are a lot of anywhere from every 3 minutes to
things that you have no control every hour. In most cases, the
over that can affect your more you pay for the service the
website. You can run into more often your site will be
hardware and software failures on checked.
your server, which could make
your site sluggish or even These monitoring services send a
unavailable. request to your website and then
check the response time. The
The solution to making sure your requests that are sent are the
website is up and running without same requests the average browser
spending a whole bunch of time makes when someone accesses your
checking it is to use a website site, so the response time tells
monitoring service. These the monitoring service how good
the site is responding to the will alert you in one (or more)
average visitor. of a number of ways.
Most monitoring services have They can send alerts via email
servers in various places around (to one or more addresses) or to
the world so they can gauge how your cell phone or pager. You can
well your website responds to then contact your hosting company
requests from different areas. to find out what is wrong and to
get the problem fixed.
If the response code and response
time are good, nothing will Some monitoring services can also
happen. The monitoring service check other parts of your website
simply moves on and waits until such as FTP and email.
the next scheduled check. If the
response is bad - too long or an Over a longer term, monitoring
error code of some sort - the services can give you a log of
monitoring service will wait for the performance of your website.
a few seconds and then check They can tell you things such as
again, using a server from how often the site is unavailable
another location. every day, week or month. You can
use this third-party information
Depending on the service, there to demand better service from
may be 3 or 4 of these checks your host (or as a basis for
done before you are alerted. If deciding to change hosts).
the service finds a problem, it
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