Monitor Your Blog’s Downtime

Listen to this everyone, coz there’s a quiz… Lolz. The reason for doing this post is that when browsing one of my blog hosted on a free webhosting service, I noticed that my blog is offline or ‘Unable to display page’. I can’t complain since, well, it is a free service…

Why is there a need to know if your website or blog are experiencing frequent downtimes?

The answer is simple, “When your website is unavailable or malfunctioning, it gives an unprofessional and negative image to your organization and leads to income losses.”

If the case of Adsense bloggers who’s been doing some SEO and some keyword optimization, having an offline blog is synonymous to potential click loss and that means loss of $$$.

How would we know if our site is down?

One sure way of checking if you’re site is up or down is to visit it. If it displays, it’s up, if it didn’t well, sorry but it’s inaccessible.

Problem with that is you can’t do that manual checking at regular interval or on different location. There could be some DNS/resolution problem where you’re blog can be accessible here and not in the United States or somewhere else.

These is where monitoring sites come in handy.

Free Monitoring Sites

Best thing in life is free ayt? Well yeah, sure it is.. but you have to live with the limitations of being free.

I fast-Googled some free monitoring service we can use to monitor our blogs uptime/downtime. This is by no means the best out there but just to show that these programs exist that I’m presenting them to you.

• Montastic – “The best website monitoring service that doesn’t suck” featuring email notification when your site goes up or down, read statuses via RSS or Yahoo widget, fun, easy and elegant user interface, and no unreasonable limit on the number of websites monitored.
• Internet vista – Site checks every 60 minutes, with additional features.
• UpPanel – A website monitoring service that watches your website for any downtime, with advanced monitoring systems.
• Others: ServerMojo | Basic State

There, go ahead and create an account… I myself created one on Internet vista.. and will create on on Montastic just to see how it works. (though I have a pretty good idea).

I just transfered my “All About… ” blog to YRHOST, where this blog and pinoybanda is hosted and currently checking my adsense performance… So far, it looks good. I’ll share the outcome soon, so visit back alright?

Anyway, if you have a better monitoring service you can suggest, please comment it out below… and help a fellow blogger.

Mabuhay!

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