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.

Read full article here.

The second article that we came across is in the webtuga.com site. This article also provides a list of website monitoring services along with a brief explanation of each. The post also mentions Site24x7. This one is in Portuguese and it has a special mention of our SLA Management, API and alert notification features. The post is titled "Ferramentas para Monitorizar o Uptime do seu site" which when translated into English reads "Tools for monitoring the uptime of your site".

Here is an excerpt:

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.

Read full article here.

Both the above articles that we mentioned above contain useful information for webmasters and website owners alike. Have you come across similar blog posts? If yes, feel free to share them with us.

Author: Arun We've marginally increased the price of some of our monitors recently. This price change is applicable only to website, DNS, mail server and web page analyzer monitors with monitoring intervals of 60 minutes or above. As per the new rates, a website monitor at 60-minute interval will cost $1/month for Standard account users and $3/month for Premium account users. A 60-minute mail server monitor and a 60-minute web page analyzer monitor will now cost $4/month each. A DNS monitor at 60-minute monitoring interval will now cost $1/month. There is no change in the price of monitors with monitoring intervals lesser than 60 minutes.  For our current users, the new prices will be effective from their next payment cycle onwards. The details of the new rates can be seen from our pricing page. The reason for this marginal price increase ($0.5/month) is to factor in increased operational costs (credit card transaction costs) and to make our billing simpler for users. Do contact our support team directly if you have any questions.

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!