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...
Site24�7 listed in killerstartups.com
Author: ArunKillerstartups has included Site24x7 among its list of killer Web 2.0 sites. They also have included a short review of Site24x7 in their site. The review is titled "Site24x7 - Complete Website Maintenance". Here are a few excerpts:
These days businesses are judged by how professional their website looks a...
Site24�7 - System Maintenance complete
Author: ArunHere's a quick update. The system maintenance is complete and our servers are back online now. You will now be able to log into your Site24x7 accounts and monitor your web sites and web applications. As informed earlier, you will be unable to view performance historical metrics for the next couple of days due to data mig...
Site24�7 system maintenance today
Author: ArunA quick update. We will be taking our servers offline today for a couple of hours for some urgent maintenance work. You will not be able to log into your Site24x7 accounts during this time period. Also note that your response time historical data will be temporarily unavailable for the next couple of days. This is due to some...
Mail server monitoring with Site24�7
Author: ArunMost organizations today rely on their mail systems more than any other piece of infrastructure. Any failure of mail servers has the potential to cause havoc, and your helpdesk might be swamped with calls from angry users. What could be even worse is the possibility that you might not even know about this failure. It is there...
Importing urls to create multiple web site monitors
Author: ArunOne of the many enhancements that we introduced in our recent update is the facility to import urls in bulk. Earlier if you had wanted to monitor multiple websites, you had to create website monitors one by one. With the import urls option, you can accomplish this task in a jiffy. All you need to do is import urls from a .txt...
Multi-location Monitoring support in Site24x7
We recently introduced multi-location monitoring in Site24x7. Your websites and applications will now be checked from servers in 3 different locations. These checks will come in from California, Boston, and United Kingdom. The California location is our primary monitoring location and the other two are secondary locations.
The bulk of t...
Keep tabs on your website with Site24�7
Author: ArunWe came across couple of nice articles on Site24x7 recently. One is by Simon Dickson in "Managing your website" section of btbroadbandoffice blogs. His post is titled "Keep tabs on your website" and it gives a brief introduction about Site24x7 and our parent company Zoho. Some excerpts from Simon's ar...
Site24�7 Update: More monitor types, etc
Author: ArunWe have added a few more goodies to Site24x7 in our latest update. These include all the options mentioned here as well as a few usability enhancements. One of the new monitor types added is Mail Server Monitor. As the name suggests this monitor will help you monitor your mail servers, both SMTP and POP. It gives you mail ser...