There are not many smart tools that have taken advantage of those
technologies to enhance the management and monitoring tasks for Web
services. In this fast phased world, internet is one of the main means
for attracting business customers. Even though companies are marketing
their services and products directly to the customers, web promotion has
become an important part of business. Even web promotion doesn’t do any
good for the web site owners, if the web site is not available at the
time a visitor requires. Visitors nowadays are not ready to test their
patience with a slowly loading web site.
Here come web monitoring
services for the help of web site owners and web masters. Online web
monitoring services are offered by many websites, obviously these
services are charged. Some web sites lure customers with different “Free
monitoring offers” which is no good to users. The better deal I found
was with 100pulse.com, which offers to monitor two websites free as of
now.
User needs to register with 100pulse.com to use this
service; the websites can be monitored with the frequency of 5 minutes
to 3 hours. Apart from this, the user can specify when to alert for
first failure or for the second or on third failure, or the required
response time after which to be alerted. The report for a particular web
site that is being monitored can be obtained through email on a daily,
weekly, monthly basis. Multiple contacts can be alerted for a website’s
outages.
What if the website is being updated for content or
design changes, just customize the schedule maintenance for the required
website. User can specify the date and time the monitoring to be
stopped, and has an option to add more than one maintenance schedules.
As
the reports are concerned the user can get the reports in their inbox,
what if the reports are deleted by mistake. Just go to the reports page
of 100pulse.com to get the consolidated reports based on the time period
the user selects. Not just the usual numerical reports, one can get the
graphically illustrated reports.
Apart from these, know the
availability of the site right now, the IP and the location where the
site is hosted by using the tools available. Right now the protocol
supported by 100pulse.com is http.
