Many webmasters and system administrators need to know immediately when they websites or servers go down. Downtime can mean that business is lost, that search engines record errors when trying to crawl a website and that first time visitors never come back because the website or service is not loading or displaying error messages. Big [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Are you one of those special geeks that think there is never TMI (too much information)? If that describes you then Nagios is the monitor for you. Once installed, Nagios will keep you busy with more information about your system than you ever thought possible. But it’s not just a matter of running apt-get install [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Software, The Web, Tutorials Advanced

Open Monitor is an Open Source network monitoring software for the Windows operating system. It comes with the option to monitor multiple local and remote servers and notify the system administrator if services or programs are not accessible. The main interface of the monitoring software is divided into a quick server check option at the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Professional webmasters and system administrators have to make sure that their websites, servers and networks are running all the time. One way to ensure that is by running server monitoring software like IT Service View. Similar programs and services that we have covered in the past include the website monitoring software Sitemonitor, the website monitor [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It is essential for webmasters and system administrators to monitor their websites and networks to be able to react as soon as possible if all or part of it goes down. That’s especially true for professionals who earn their living with their websites. A possibility are commercial services that notify the webmaster as soon as [...]

Categories: Software, The Web, Windows

Each webmasters has fears that his websites are getting hacked or that the server goes down. Happening usually in a moment when the webmaster is unaware of the problem (sleeping time). Server Monitoring can ease the mind of webmasters quite a bit. I have already covered the server monitoring service that I’m using to monitor [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools