Server-side Monitoring Tips to Ensure Optimal Web Performance
An overloaded Web server? Your users might get a "503 Service~ Unavailable" error
A slow database connection? Your users might get a "502 Bad Gateway " message
Are you slacking in your SLA monitoring?
Anyone familiar with British comedy will recall Basil Fawlty, the terse, rude hotel proprietor of sitcom Fawlty Towers. While Basil became a symbol of frustrated, middle-class England, Fawlty continues to serve as a comedic reminder of how not to do business.
Providing a service your customers can’t live without~(rather ...
5 common data center outage problems
It may be good to learn from our own mistakes but it’s certainly cheaper and less stressful to learn from other people’s blunders, bungles and gaffes. With this in mind here are 5 of the most common outage problems to affect companies in recent years. Use them to influence your own SaaS operations.
1.DNS configuration proble...
Image editing tools every writer needs.
Once upon a time writers only wrote and designers only designed, but the rise of digital media means those boundaries have blurred. Writers, especially those working in the blogosphere and managing social accounts increasingly need to undertake basic design and image manipulation as part of their day-to-day job. This selection of image editin...
Put your Exchange Servers woes to rest 24x7!
“The Exchange Server is down!”~Doesn't~the very mention of this send shivers down your spine? We understand the critical role the Exchange Server plays in your business and how any downtime can be nothing less than a nightmare.
Is it really as bad as it sounds?
Do's and Don'ts to Ace Your APM Strategy
Moving to the cloud? A cloud-based architecture will add an extra layer of complexity and management challenges, since there will be additional potential points of failure and bottlenecks outside your control.
Dealing with new infrastructure or 3rd party service providers? They could slowdown your Website.
Scheduled Maintenance on Aug 31, 2013
Keeping up with the tremendous growth Zoho Corp. (the company behind Site24x7) has had~means we need to scale up our infrastructure periodically.
As part of this, we are planning one such infrastructure upgrade in our primary data center on~Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 between 10 am PDT and 10 pm PDT. We have planned it in...
Site24x7 Launches Hybrid, Public Cloud Monitoring at VMworld 2013
VMworld 2013 — SAN FRANCISCO and PLEASANTON, Calif. — August 26, 2013 —Site24x7, the cloud infrastructure monitoring service from~ManageEngine, today announced the launch of monitoring support for hybrid and public cloud environments. The new capabilities let users monitor VMware vSphere� hypervisor as well as Am...
Operation planned to test our disaster recovery readiness
Update: Aug 27 : 10:53 AM PST~- We experienced an outage in our service today when we tried to shift back to our main data center from our disaster recovery site. It occurred between 8:29 AM to 9:14 AM PDT due to a database replication race condition.
Additionally customers using Server monitoring would hav...
3 SMB benefits of taking to the cloud
With the holiday season in full swing and air traffic at its peak, we ask is the sky the limit for SMBs that take to the cloud?~Here are~three ways in which research is showing us that cloud computing can and is transforming the lives of SMBs.
#1 Security and privacy