How to check your website is up and running

Sunday, April 02, 2006

When choosing a web host, you might have taken 'uptime' into consideration - most hosts guarantee 99.something percent uptime. This is literally the amount of time that your website is up and running. Downtime, is the opposite of this i.e. when your site is unavailable.

To put it into real terms, 0.1% uptime equates to just over 86 seconds per day. Whilst this doesn't sound much, if it's at a peak time for your visitors - how many potential sales have you just lost?

And even when you have chosen your host, how can you tell if it really does stick to the uptime promised?

SiteUptime is a free service that monitors your website every 30 minutes (more frequently if you pay a small monthly fee) and sends you an e-mail each time your site is down. In addition, you can see monthly aggregated statistics.

Whilst this is certainly not the only uptime monitoring service, it's ease of use and simplicity makes it a good choice.

Visit the SiteUptime Web Site Monitoring Service

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