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How recently did you check the personal website (and also network and servers)? Are you scheduling your website monitoring works in some way? Do you believe your website is working at the moment? Now I presume that you are starting your web-browser, entering the URL and monitoring if it’s still present. Looks like the things are good… But may it be the page is just found in the Firefox cache? Doing a full reload… Phew, lucky this time! But are you sure it was available yesterday, last week, or past month? Most hosting providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I would like to know that for sure.

Imagine that your prospective customers coming to your website but it is accidentally not responding. They see complicated error message or simply white page. How do you suspect, how much of visitors will come away and will never return? Well, maybe some of them will perform an attempt later. But anyway, people like to make their purchases on the reliable and safe servers. If you are owning any type of network business, you better be sure, your visitors can browse your website and receive data, services, or products they are need. Any unexpected downtime means loss of clients that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

You may tell that it is life, everything happens, and you can’t completely avoid downtimes. This is partly true. You can’t completely evade them, but you can surely minimize them! The earlier you notified about any error, the precedently you can take the action to fix it. Call your website provider, review some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may want to use ProtoMon. It is the server monitoring software designed to automatically load your website, servers, and network computers periodically and immediately let you know if some problems betided. It needs just a few minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this website monitoring tool.

You will be able to add the monitors of the different types to do monitoring tasks for all aspects of your server. As a first step you may want to add a ping monitor. This allows you to be sure that the host network computer is reachable. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download any web page and optionally validate the content using the powerful filters with the support of the logical expressions. Besides, the program can make use of the proxy server, and connect to the password protected sections of the network. Also you may want to check your servers using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And control your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you can receive e-mail letters from the customers and they can get messages from you.

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

When any issue detected, the monitoring tool will inform you by displaying the pop-up message, playing the sound file, starting any script or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the selected recipients.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your PC. You can review it whenever you wish, with the handy viewer what includes a nice-looking diagram with support of panning and zooming and detailed explanations for even better usability. And you may wish to use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon remotely, and view the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with any web-browser.