Online store debacle on Cyber-Monday
Author: ArunThe holiday shopping season in the US brings in lots of traffic to online stores every year. This year has been no different either. Unfortunately, online stores who had their e-commerce solutions hosted through Yahoo Store found their shopping carts going down at the wrong time, on "Cyber-Monday". Needless to say, ...
Underground data center to reduce energy consumption
Author: ArunIn an effort to reduce energy consumption in data centers, SunMicrosystems is planning to lower their Blackbox into an underground coal mine in Japan. The main advantage with this underground data center is of course less energy consumption than the usual ground-level data center. Excerpts from a Techworld article:
How Unplanned Downtimes ruin your Reputation
Author: ArunDatacenter problems can lead to unexpected downtimes and can in turn affect your reputation badly. Web hosting provider Navisite found this out recently when they had a datacenter consolidation project that went horribly wrong. They encountered unexpected problems during server migration between their datacenters. This result...
Options for boosting datacenter uptime
Author: ArunThere is a nice article about datacenter downtime problems in the latest issue of GCN mag. This one is by Drew Robb and it touches upon some of the common causes of downtime in datacenters.
The article also discusses some useful options to boost datacenter uptime. These options include having good power and cooling syst...
Scheduling daily/weekly uptime and performance reports
Author: ArunSite24x7's daily / weekly reports are a great way to keep tabs on the uptime and performance of your web sites, applications and mail servers. You just need to configure monitors one time within your Site24x7 account and these reports will start coming right to your mailbox. So you need not login to Site24x7 to know...
Web site monitoring from an end-user perspective
Author: ArunAny business web site owner or webmaster will know the perils of slow-loading web pages and what they can do to drive away users from the web site. One of their main concerns should be to ensure their web pages are loading fast enough for the users. Sometimes the web page might load fast enough for some users but not all user...
Essential tool for a blog
Author: ArunAs we mentioned in one of our earlier posts here, we frequently get to read some articles about Site24x7 in languages other than English. Here are couple of recent such posts from the blogosphere. The first is in French. The article is titled "Les outils indispensables pour un blog (7/9): Site24...
Site24�7 Maintenance on October 13
Author: ArunWe are upgrading our datacenter infrastructure and Site24x7 will be down on October 13, 2007 between 10:00 hrs PDT to 16:00 hrs PDT. During this time, you will not be able to access Site24x7 and your websites and applications will not be monitored. Please note, this downtime will not be reflected in your reports. We...
Configuring Maintenance Schedules to deal with planned downtime
Author: ArunThere are some occasions when you may want to take your web site, web application or e-mail server offline for some upgrade or maintenance purpose. In such cases, you will receive notifications indicating that the site, or the application are unavailable. Since the site is not available when pinged during the maintenance peri...
Simple hosted web site monitoring service
Author: ArunWe recently came across a nice little article about Site24x7 in the blogosphere. This one is by Ajay Prabhu and is basically a short review of Site24x7's web site monitoring service. This article mentions almost all of Site24x7's basic features. Of course, we frequently come up with newer features and enhancements s...