Site24×7 Blogs

We had earlier written about the increasing usage of Site24×7 among European (read non-English) users. Some of these users write articles or blog posts describing the features of Site24×7. We are featuring 3 such articles today - one each in Spanish, Portuguese and French.

The Spanish article is by Rafael Pinero in Visual Beta website. It is titled “Site24×7, monitoriza tus páginas web” and mentions the most basic feature of Site24×7 - availability and response time monitoring of websites by sending http and https requests to websites. It also talks about Web Page Analyzer, DNS monitors, Mail server monitoring, SMS alerts, etc.

Here is an excerpt:

Below is a rough translation of the above passage (thanks to Babelfish)Or we have spoken in other occasions of programs to manage the hardware of your PC like the CPU with CPU-Z or Power station Brain Identifier, your graphical card with GPU-Z or all your hardware in general with iStat Pro, but if you are to webmaster and what it interests to you it is to know if your servant behaves and he stays online, the application that you need is Site24×7.

Site24×7 is an application online that is in charge to monitorizar the services Web that you indicate to him to be sure that they do not fall and that they are available to be used. For it, the servants of Site24×7 which does are to send requests HTTP or HTTPS to the service Web that you indicate in regular intervals and enviarte an alert in case that he does not respond.

Read full article here

Thanks for the post, Rafael!

The Portuguese article appears in boorlix.com website. It is titled “Site 24 x 7 - Monotorizando o seu site” which means “Site24×7 - Monitoring your web pages” in English.

O Site24×7 é um serviço que lhe permite obter informações sobre o seu site tais como verificar a disponibilidade do servidor, a velocidade, detectar mudanças e receber avisos por RSS, SMS ou e-mail de quando o seu site está em baixo.

A versão gratuita permite-lhe verificar até 2 sites com um intervalo de 60 minutos e com alertas por SMS, já a versão paga permite-lhe por apenas 0.50$ mensais por domínio verificar com um intervalo de 5 minutos, avisos de mudança de DNS, verificação do funcionamento do SMTP, notificações por SMS, mudanças das meta-tags, etc…

The article mentions the value offered by Site24×7 along the basic differences between the free and paid versions.

Read full article here.

The French article is written by Eric in presse-citron.net and is titled “Monitorez en temps réel le fonctionnement de votre site web avec Site24×7″. This roughly translates to “Monitor in real time the operation of your web site with Site24×7″

The article talks about url availability & performance monitoring features of Site24×7 along with references to the 15-day trial account as well as paid accounts.

Read full article here.

Thanks for the post, Eric!

We recently came across 2 articles on Site24×7 in the blogosphere. The first one is by Raj of Technobuzz and the post is titled is ‘Monitor your Site Status with Site24×7‘.

It gives a brief introduction to Site24×7 and its features and also explains how site24×7 works. Here is an excerpt:

Read full article here

Of course apart from the features mentioned in Technobuzz, Site24×7 also offers the Web Page Analyzer, email server monitor, and DNS monitor.

The second article this week is by Aibek of Makeuseof.com and the post is titled “Site24×7: Website Performance Tracker”

This one is basically a short review of Site24×7. Here are a few excerpts:

“Site24×7 continuously monitors your site’s status and alerts you in case it goes down. Downtime alerts can be sent to your email, feedreader (via RSS), or mobile phone. Apart from that, it also provides you with weekly reports of server performance. With free account you are allowed to monitor upto two websites and setup tracker to check them once every 60 minutes. While this may be sufficient for low trafficked websites, larger sites should probably go with something better.”

Aibek also gives a feature list for the free account and also mentions the free and premium accounts available in Site24×7.

Read full article here.

Thanks for your reviews, Raj and Aibek! Glad that you liked Site24×7.

Author: Arun

A couple of articles about Site24×7 in the blogosphere caught our attention this week. One is by David Bradley in his website sciencetext. The post is titled “Use your Cellphone to monitor website health“. David writes about how Site24×7 helps keep track of your website or blog 24/7 and alerts you via email/sms/rss feeds if there is an outage, so that you can take corrective actions quickly.

Excerpts from this article:

Read full article here.

Thanks for the post, David!

The second article is by Deepak in his D’Technology blog. He writes about the special 40% discount that is currently being offered to all users upgrading to our Professional account.

Remember, DG had earlier posted about us in 2006 when we were in Beta phase and then again in 2007 when we released our GA version. Now with this article, he has an article about Site24×7 in 2008 as well!

Below is an excerpt from this article:

Read full article here.

Thanks for the continuous coverage, Deepak.

Author: Arun

We recently came across a very nice article about Site24×7 in the blogosphere. This article was written by Anand and is titled “Monitoring Site Downtime”. Below are a few excerpts from the article:

If something goes wrong with my site, I like to know of it. My top three problems are:

- The site is down

- A page is missing

- Javascript isn’t working

I’ll talk about how I manage these over 3 articles.

My site used to go down a lot. Initially that was because I kept playing around with mod_rewrite and other Apache modules without quite understanding them. I’d make a change and upload it without testing. (I’m like that.) And then I’d go to sleep.

Next morning, the site’s down, and has been down all night.

Anand says his website initially had a lot of downtime, but he was not aware of it as he was not monitoring his site at that time. Then he started using using Site24×7 to monitor his website, and he was being alerted every time was there was a problem.

So I started using Site24×7 to track if my website was down. It’s a convenient (and free) service. It pings my site every hour. If it’s down, I get an SMS. If it’s back up, I get an SMS. It also keeps a history of how often the site is down.

Over a period of time, the downtime came down and he also changed his hosting provider to get better service.

So I switched to HostGator a few months ago. Nowadays, the site is down a lot less. (In times of trouble, it becomes sluggish, but doesn’t actually go down.)

Anand also says Site24×7’s alerts are really useful.

But what really made Site24×7 useful to me is that it would alert me when there was a big problem.

Site24×7 sends me an SMS when my site is down. Fits the bill perfectly.

You can read the entire article here. Thanks for writing about us, Anand!

I also want to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy New Year 2008 and also to remind you about our ongoing special discount offer.

Author: Arun

As we mentioned in one of our earlier posts here, we frequently get to read some articles about Site24×7 in languages other than English. Here are couple of recent such posts from the blogosphere.

The first is in French. The article is titled “Les outils indispensables pour un blog (7/9): Site24×7” and appears in SimpleEntrepreneur site. The title when translated into English reads “Essential tools for a blog (7/9): Site24×7″. The post is in fact one among a series of posts that discuss about certain essential tools required by a blog owner. The other services mentioned here include Technorati, Google Analytics, Crazy Egg, etc. Hmm, we got some nice company here for sure!!

Here are a few excerpts from this article:

Basically this article mentions Site24×7’s ability to analyze the availability of a blog or site at regular time intervals and to send out alerts if they become inaccessible or down. It also mentions about our alert mechanism which includes email, SMS and RSS alerts.

Read full article here.

The second article is in German and it appears in ‘Server Monitoring’ blog. The post is titled “Site24×7 - Servermonitoring Web 2.0″ and it can be read here.

Thanks for writing about us, guys!!

Author: Arun

We recently came across a nice little article about Site24×7 in the blogosphere. This one is by Ajay Prabhu and is basically a short review of Site24×7’s web site monitoring service. This article mentions almost all of Site24×7’s basic features. Of course, we frequently come up with newer features and enhancements such as the ones in our recent update.

Here are a few excerpts from his article:

What Company is Offering:
Site24×7 checks for the response time and availability of your website. For example, you can add a URL, say http://mycommerce.com, for monitoring. You can set a threshold for a web page such that - if the page load time of that page is more than 3 seconds, you should be notified through EMail, SMS and RSS. This helps you in taking quick action before it affects end users.

Read full article here.

Thanks for the post, Ajay!

Feedmyapp has recently listed Site24×7 among Web 2.0 tools. This is a site dedicated to listing and reviewing Web 2.0 services and its nice to be listed here.

Read full article here.

Thanks for reviewing us!

Author: Arun

Killerstartups has included Site24×7 among its list of killer Web 2.0 sites. They also have included a short review of Site24×7 in their site. The review is titled “Site24×7 - Complete Website Maintenance”.

Here are a few excerpts:

These days businesses are judged by how professional their website looks and how well it works. That being the case, companies who do not have a professional site manager are constantly running the risk of website failure. Site24×7.com offers a service for these companies that is affordable and reliable. Site24×7 is a simple hosted web site monitoring service that works around the clock making sure that websites are performing flawlessly.

There is a “why it might be a killer” section which explains the value Site24×7 can provide to a website owner.

A business’ website is the face of the business and must run seamlessly. Site24×7 can ensure that sites run to their highest potential and when something goes wrong it does not remain a mystery. It used to be that if a client was unhappy with a service they had to do research and call around to other companies. Now, all it takes is a few clicks to drop one service and find another one. Therefore, websites must run perfectly and Site24×7 can make that a reality.

The review also includes our contact information as well as Alexa traffic rank and other competitors in this space under the ‘Killer Data’ section.

Read full review