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1. You don't like to hear from your customers that your on-line business is down again.

2. You don't trust your host claiming 99.999% uptime.

3. You want to be sure that your web site is accessible from all the countries from all the continents.

4. Your website is expanding and you'd like to detect the bottleneck of the growing network before it smashes your business.

5. You value your reputation of a reliable and trustworthy busines.

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We are always very enthusiastic about traffic: we think the more visitors our website attracts, the more profitable our e-business must be. Well, that’s right, but, unfortunately, only to a certain limit. Too many visitors cause huge load on web server and network components, which results in website slowdown or even failure, web applications crash, and, consequently, customer dissatisfaction and distrust. What should be done? You must prepare for high traffic, find the bottlenecks in your web applications, and know exactly how many users your web server can handle without any risk of slowdown. External web load stress test might help you.

The easiest way to find the weak points of your web server and your network is to perform a web load stress test. Nowadays you can easily find a lot of both internal and external stress testing solutions. The internal tools, no matter how complex and expensive they are, have one common drawback: they are installed either on the web server that is to be tested, or on a computer, which belongs to the same network as the web server. Of course, this approach cannot give “clean” results, as in this case the testing application shares the hardware resources it should examine.

External web load stress testing solutions, on the contrary, are outside your network, which allows them to provide the most comprehensive picture of your web server behavior under heavy traffic load. An advanced external stress testing service usually has several testing agents (servers) situated in different parts of the world. The agents can simulate up to 10 000 simultaneous Internet visitors! Each simulated user may go through your web applications several times, that’s why the generated traffic may be really overwhelming. Of course, it’s up to you to choose how many “users” will connect to your web server and how many times.

What should you do during the test?

Your primary task is to monitor your web server hardware resources, such as CPU load, RAM, and hard disk usage. Your stress testing service provider will generate an extensive report for you, but your own logs will help you immensely.

Why is precise timing so important?

You must do your best not to miss the moment, when stress testing starts, that’s why the precise time on your system is the key issue here. The most serious stress testing services are synchronized with atomic clocks.

The website being a part of IT world plays the important role in development and promotion of business. The most important currency in internet is attention of users. Site which has problems with loading, execution are not attractive for visitors. Furthermore your website is your face in the Internet and site which is often inaccessible loses constant partners.

The only way to be fully confident is to use website monitoring and website server monitoring.

Website monitoring service helps you to be sure the web site is accessible, has proper content, and is maintaining good performance. There are a number of companies which provide such services. One of the leading companies in this sphere is Dotcom-monitor. They provide next services:

Website monitoring

Dotcom-Monitor has remote agents which are positioned around the world and the have an opportunity to work like an Internet browser. They will start website monitoring and server monitoring immediately after creation of an account. Website monitoring service by Dotcom-monitor has some specific features which distinguish it from other services, such as

Accessibility & Availability Check

Performance Check

Content Check

Form Submission

Secure Sites

Server Digital Certificates

Client Digital Certificate

Cookie Support.

Network Monitoring

Due to this service you are kept informed about your network’s status, availability and performance of network applications. There are a lot of network monitoring tools but I’ll list the most important: FTP Monitoring Service, POP3 Monitoring Service, SMTP Monitoring Service, SMTP/POP3 Monitoring Service, DNS Monitoring Service, DNS Blacklist Monitoring, Ping/ICMP Monitoring Service, Port Monitoring Service, Web Service
SOAP/HTTP Monitoring Service, UDP Monitoring Service, Temperature Monitoring Service and Custom Script Monitoring Service.

Web Load Stress Test

With the growth of your site the number of loads on your website, web applications and network infrastructure grow too. This service helps us to get information about such important points as:

Position of bottlenecks on your site.

Performing of website under certain loads.

A number of users can you site handle.

As I have already mentioned there is a great number of different companies such as site24x7, Mon.itor.us, HostTracker. You can also try them but I have been used it for two years and I have no any complaint.

Google AdSense in newspapers: Google reserves advertising space in every circulation. This space is used depending on context.

Google AdSense and Wi-Fi: Google will cover the globe with free POPs. Google will know your exact location and this fact will be very useful for context ads.

Google AdSense and mobile phone: Google redeems cellular communication operator and provides services for free, In return you have to hear short advertising ads before you can speak. These ads are also selected according to context.

Google AdSense on roads: LCD screens are placed on roofs of taxies, on sides of buses and etc. Such screens also have connections with Wi-Fi POPs and ads are different depending on the place, current time and so on.

Such forecast seems to be too much pessimistic and unsophisticated. It is possible that Peter Forret is some kind of paranoiac and is afraid that someday Google will transmit its ads directly to his brains. But who knows!

Yahoo started using of some standards of web semantics. Such technology is very perspective and meant for work with huge information content. Company declared that it starts to use some basis of semantic search for the purpose of improvement of search engine’s work quality.

As is well known the most of search engines use technology of relevant queries, they compare words of query with content of web sites. Semantic search technology gives an opportunity to “conceive” content and to get results according not to keywords frequency, but according to text’s sense.

Tim Berners-Lee foretelled death of Google. He means death of semantic model of web. According to his words Google accomplishes very effective search in text information, but Internet includes a lot of another information which introduced by graphic, video an so on. Thus company which will develop such technology of search will become a leader on world search market.

Radar Website Monitor is powerful program for website monitoring. Such software has opportunity to monitor different types of web protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, FTP and TCP. When your website goes down or works very slow this soft informs you. Your website monitoring and network monitoring software performance depend on performance of your own computer and your Internet provider. Thus such approach to a problem of website monitoring is suitable only for small and unimportant websites which fail can not cause any important loss.