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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.

Website uptime means time of undisturbed operation of your website, server. At present moment there is no big difference between web hosting services. But it is impossible to provide 100% uptime in other words to provide website and server performance 24 hours per day 365 per year, because there are real people and real technique. Both of them have illness and breakages. So, all statements about 100% web site uptime are false.

There is another aim: to reduce downtime of yourwebsite. For this purpose there is such service as website uptime monitoring.It helps you to watch your website performance round the clock and notices youabout uptime problems. So, you have an opportunity to make actions to reduce downtime.

The market changes rapidly. It brings new conditions and new reality. Due to the process of growing of importance of such sphere as IT a lot of new services appear, become essential.

Website Monitoring

One of such new but necessary services is website monitoring. To guarantee, that your customers and users have constant access to your resources, you should guarantee availability of your server 24 hours per day, seven days in a week, 365 days in a year. Website monitoring service helps you to be sure the web site is accessible, has proper content, and is maintaining good performance. That means your web sites and applications keep running, and are more profitable.

Network Monitoring

Corporate networks play a leading part in the process of business-process maintenance.  Even little failure may cause the break of functioning of whole organization.

The process of maintenance of local networks is complex and rather expensive problem. It requires the big staff of skilled specialists which duties include the maintenance of accessibility of network services, network optimization, adjustment and renovation network hardware and software, finding and removal appearing incidents and other functions.

But there is another way. You can use special service which function is management and monitoring of your network. Such thing gives you an opportunity to monitor your network for bottlenecks, faultinesses. It also gives an opportunity to notify network administrator about all cases of failure.