Our Singapore location is temporarily out of service due to an undersea cable disruption in the South East Asian region. Our hosting provider has put out press release about this. In order to ensure our Singapore location users are not affected, we have shifted the monitoring to our Indian server. All the users who have configured Singapore as their primary monitoring location will now have their monitoring checks coming from India. We regret the inconvenience caused. We will be shifting the monitoring to Singapore as soon as the connection is restored. Update: Our Singapore server is now active. Monitoring has been shifted back to Singapore.

Last week, Comcast.net users had nearly 1.5 hours blackout of their email services. It was inaccessible from 11 PM to 30 minutes past midnight. As per CIO, hackers changed the DNS Server records to point to alternate servers and hence Comcast.net users were unable to check their mails. If an organization’s DNS servers are down or not functioning properly, it will lead to problems for the end users. This just goes to show how important it is to have your DNS Records monitored too, just to make sure your users as well as your brand identity are not affected.

We came across quite a few articles and blog posts about Site24x7 in recent times. Just wanted to share some of these articles with our readers. The first article was found in blog.econsultant.com last week. This one has a pretty simplistic style. It is in a 'problem definition and solution' format.

A rather straightforward solution, isn't it? Just a couple of lines and an image, but they do convey a lot. Read full article here. Another article mentions about the Web Page analyzer tool of Site24x7. This one is in French and below is an excerpt of the same.

The article basically mentions about the WPA as an online tool to calculate the loading time of different objects on a website. Read full article here. Thank you for writing about us, guys!

We rolled out some important features in Site24x7 a couple of days ago. Here are a few highlights of this update: More Monitoring Locations We have added four new monitoring locations to go with the existing two locations. That makes it six monitoring locations in total - California, Houston, New Jersey, Netherlands, UK and Singapore.

By monitoring website uptime from these different geographical locations, you can be doubly sure that your sites are accessible from all parts of the world. We also have plans to add more locations to our monitoring network in the near future. New user packages We have introduced 2 new user packages - Standard and Premium accounts. The Standard account retains the same features of our Professional account and is suited for small businesses. The Premium account has all the features of Standard account plus the ability to monitor website uptime from multiple secondary monitoring locations which are geographically separate. This makes the Premium account an ideal fit for small & medium businesses wanting to make sure their web sites are up and accessible from different parts of the world. Read more about our user packages. Other enhancements in this update include an enhanced reports section, a 'Test SMS' option which enables you to send test sms messages to your mobile from Site24x7, enhancements to the web application monitor section, an improved 'Upgrade' screen, etc. Do try out the new features/enhancements in Site24x7 and as always, we will be glad to hear your feedback!