Second, Foursquare used the social media very effectively. They spoke to leading tech blogs and updated the status once the service was back online. There are two important lessons to be learnt from the way how Foursquare handled its un-expected downtime.

First and foremost, make sure that you have a strong strategy in place in case any...

We are planning to upgrade our monitoring servers in Seattle and Dallas to a new high end server on October 11, 2010 00:00 AM PDT.

We had been working on a new look for the Site24x7 web client over the past few weeks. Sometime last month, we had also given a sneak peek of the interface to our blog readers. Now we’ve just rolled out this new interface to all our user accounts.

So what’s new in the new interface?

One of the recent trends I have noticed over a period of time is that many websites and web-based applications have started obsessing about their website performance and uptime. In order to understand this obsession better, I think we need to look at two key factors:

Many theories and scientific studies have been conducted on how d...

1. Log into Site24x7.

2. Select the website you wish add more locations or change those locations to a different one and click on 'Edit Details' link.

When users search for a good website monitoring solution, one of the main requirements in their checklist is whether the solution can monitor websites from multiple locations. This not only helps them to understand the availability and performance of their website from multiple global locations, but it also helps to get a glimpse into the wor...