Introducing Website Monitoring Locations in China and Japan
After adding monitoring servers in Germany, Australia, South Africa and some US states in the last quarter of 2008, we are now focusing on expanding our monitoring network in the Asian continent. Earlier our lone monitoring server in Asia used to be in Singapore. Now we have added servers in China and Japan. The Chinese server is located in S...
Twitter's Recent Security Problems - Phishing Scam & Hacking of high-profile Accounts
Being popular in Web 2.0 world comes with its own share of problems. Twitter, the most popular microblogging service, found this out when they faced security problems on two occasions recently. The first one was the phishing scam which tricked thousands of tweeters into giving away their account passwords to a phishing site which resembled th...
Salesforce CRM experiences sudden downtime
Salesforce.com (CRM) was down for around 30-40 minutes yesterday between 12:40 to 1:20 US Pacific time. Customers complained they were unable to access their accounts or were unable to reach the website in some cases. Salesforce's status page had a brief explanation of the outage.
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Find out what increases your web site load time
We came across a couple of articles on the internet which feature Site24x7. The first one is by Prem Godara in his Techno Mirror blog. ~He has an article about finding out what increases the loading time of a website. The article is titled "Does your website load slowly! Here's a solution" Prem mentions two tools - Si...
Monitor a group of Websites using Monitor Group
Do you manage websites belonging to multiple companies? Do you need to keep tabs on the uptime and performance of websites on a company-wise basis? The "monitor group" feature in Site24x7 will allow you to do just that. The monitor group lets you organize or group multiple monitors into a group. You can use this to tag dif...
An increase in Google Chrome users, more competition to IE?
Google yesterday announced their Chrome browser has come out of Beta. This is one of the fastest Google services to come out of beta tag. It has taken just over 3 months while some of the other Google services seem to be in Beta phase for a very long time. For example, Gmail is still in Beta even though it was launched in 2004. Google claims ...
Site24�7 Maintenance on November 27
On Thursday, November 27th, Site24x7 will be unavailable from approximately 06:40 hrs GMT to 08:40 hrs GMT due to system maintenance. You won't be able to log into your accounts during this time. However, your websites will continue to be monitored as usual. Sorry for the short notice and apologies for the inconvenience caused....
Site24x7 recommended in 'Beginning Microsoft Office Live' book
Site24x7's website monitoring service has been recommended in the book 'Beginning Microsoft Office Live' by Rahul Pitre. Rahul Pitre runs Acxede, a company that builds web-based applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
The book deals with learning all the basic functions of Microsoft Office Live and building we...
US Election coverage and use of technology
The US Presidential election 2008 was a truly global event. Barack Obama's victory was followed with great interest across the world and was an amazing occasion. What was even more amazing was the election coverage on major tv networks and the technology they used to show results. All major tv networks in the US such as CNN, Fox, NBC and...
Free Tool to Monitor your Website's Status
Author: AruniWeb blog, a blog that covers web hosting, web development, web design, internet marketing, etc, has recently mentioned Site24x7's website monitoring service. Site24x7 has been included as one of the examples in a recent blog post titled "3 Free Tools to Monitor your Website's Status
Here are a few excerp...