We have just rolled out an iPhone client that can be used to access Site24x7 website monitoring service. The interface lets you connect to Site24x7 and view the current status of the monitors in your account.

This is useful for you to get a quick overview of the status of your web sites while you are on the move. You can view the current uptime and performance statistics for each of your web sites. You can also view SLA reports and keep track of SLA compliance. There is a separate view for outage statistics for the last 24 hours. The design comes with a tabbed interface which lets you navigate easily between these views - uptime status, SLA reports and Outages.

From the "Home" tab, you can drill down and view the global status of the website for the last 24 hours as well as view info about response time, the primary location from where the website is being monitored, next polling time, etc. From the SLA tab, you can view a summary of the various service level agreements in place. For each SLA, you can drill down and view historical data such as the SLA Goal and SLA Achieved %.

The new client will be a useful tool for webmasters or website owners to check the uptime status & SLA compliance of websites. As always, we will be improving upon this tool in the future as we go along.

Looking forward to your feedback on the new iPhone client!

Once in a while we keep an eye on the blogosphere to understand how website monitoring services are being used by customers. While doing this, we do stumble upon certain blogs which educate their readers about website monitoring services. Here are a couple of such posts which we came across recently.

The first one was in affiliateranger.com site about the free website monitoring services available today. The article mentions Site24x7 as well as some other monitoring services. Here is what the blogger had to say about Site24x7:

Site24×7 is designed to maintain an optimal website user experience by monitoring the performance and availability of Web servers and applications from an end-user perspective. Site24×7 gives you the ability to monitor your visitors or customers-facing web properties on a global basis. Site24×7 will monitor any website from 15 locations; tracking the end-user experience from six sites in the US, three sites in Europe, and four in Asia, Australia and Africa. Site24×7 ensures the hardware and software supporting such critical functions as online purchases, site logins, web form submissions and more, are performing up to service level agreements (SLAs). Site24×7 includes an Operations Dashboard, through which all performance parameters are easily understood and any problems are automatically flagged for resolution.

Apesar de nunca ter testado, o Site24×7 inspira-me alguma confiança, não só devido a fazer a verificação em multiplas localizações, mas também por permitir a gestão de SLA (service-level agreements). Para além disso, tem ainda a favor o facto de ter uma API disponível e alertas via RSS, SMS e Mail.

The book deals with learning all the basic functions of Microsoft Office Live and building websites with office Live. Site24x7 has been featured in the 'Maintaining your Website' section of the book. The author recommends Site24x7 as the best automated service for monitoring web site downtime. He mentions about our free account which can monitor 2 websites for free, and also about the paid versions for more savvy users.

If you experience frequent server problems, or if you manage a business-critical website, you might need tools to monitor the current status of your server and/or your website, giving you handy features such as automated email or SMS alerts whenever the website is down. Other tools can also give daily and weekly statistics on downtime.

site24×7 is a service provided by zoho. There is a free basic service, limited to 2 websites. However, it has more features than Montastic or mon.itor.us; with daily and weekly statistics and graphs