Website Monitoring Services – Is It a Worthwhile Expense?

Having purchased web hosting, you will certainly should make sure that you are receiving what you paid for. Should your hosting service not be giving you the level of up time that you expect from it, you are entitled to understand the reason why, and to be aware of this as soon as it occurs. You won’t be continuously monitoring your website – and if you have more than one site to manage, this would not be possible anyway, so it may be a wise decision invest in a dedicated website monitoring service that will continually check the status of your site.

The way this operates is that a specific program is utilized to access your site once every three minutes (the time can vary, but the process is the same with all services of this type). As long as the program gets the result it is anticipating – an active website – it will take no additional action, and merely checks again at the next time period. When it gets an error message indicating that the website is down, it checks again seconds later making use of a different IP address. If it receives the same result, it will contact you.

Typically, this will be carried out by way of a mobile device such as a cell phone or a pager, and will be a brief message informing you that your website is down. If it is during an previously announced period of downtime, there is nothing more you will need to do. Otherwise, you can contact your web hosting provider notifying them to the outage, and having the issue resolved as promptly as possible.