Have you ever found your blog or website has been suffering from outages? Probably, if your loyal readers or visitors found they can't browse your site as they used to be, they might let you know right away. That's very nice of them. C'mon! You really can't depend on them to report back everytime it occurs. What if someone found your site having some sort of outages and left unsaid? May be, they won't come back again.
Ugh... Outages?!
Outages might not stop you from blogging or managing your website, but it doesn't mean your visitors will ignore it too. Do you think following message alone can save you?
We deeply regret any inconvenience this may cause you. We value the trust of our visitors and are working aggressively to prevent these types of events from occurring in the future.
As a source residing online, you always need to make sure your site is reliable enough and not pushing difficulties right on your visitors' face. Remember, if your visitors can't find your site reliable enough, they can find a reliable competitor within few minutes. Think of how many readers and customers you can lose in few seconds. You can't afford to lose them over a technical issue. Can you?
If your site or hosting service tend to bother your visitors with technical or such issues time to time, then you really need to think about getting issues fixed, or switching to a reputed and reliable domain / hosting service before you find you have no loyal readers and visitors left anymore.
If your site or hosting service tend to bother your visitors with technical or such issues time to time, then you really need to think about getting issues fixed, or switching to a reputed and reliable domain / hosting service before you find you have no loyal readers and visitors left anymore.
Solutions!
What might be the solution to find if your site has been suffering from outages?
1. You can rely on your visitors to let you know about outages as they find
2. You can keep refreshing your site time to time looking for any visible issues
3. You can use a tool or service to monitor your site for outages
Now be honest and let me know what's your best option. Alright... I can see you staring at 3rd option ;) Didn't you? Indeed, it's my choice too.
Tools / services come in handy when you can't spend too much time on something. If it can monitor your blog or website for outages, then you don't need to rely on anyone else and you will always know what's happening on your site while you were away too. Isn't it sound wonderful?
The most important advantage of monitoring is that you can make decisions with confidence. Even if someone let you know about outages, you might not get to know about all the occurrences. But if a tool or service can display enough evidences, you will know what's your next move should be.
The most important advantage of monitoring is that you can make decisions with confidence. Even if someone let you know about outages, you might not get to know about all the occurrences. But if a tool or service can display enough evidences, you will know what's your next move should be.
But the real question is, what tool gonna help you with that. Did you know of any tool that can make use of? If you didn't, let me share what I've found and been using lately.
Pingdom Website Monitor
Pingdom offers a free website monitoring service for everyone to learn about outages happening on their sites. You can simply set up your blog or website, and leave monitoring upto this service.
You can either come back and check for outages at your convenience, or simply get notified about outages. That's the best feature I like about this service. You can get notifications via email and Twitter. Don't you think it's convenient enough? :)
Further, you can get notifications via SMS too. But you need to have SMS credits left in order to receive notifications. Anyway, you will get 20 SMS credits to spend when you get started.
In addition to monitoring service, Pingdom offers you the Real User Monitoring service too. If you would like to set it up, you can learn about your site's performance through the real-time data collected by Pingdom service.
You can either come back and check for outages at your convenience, or simply get notified about outages. That's the best feature I like about this service. You can get notifications via email and Twitter. Don't you think it's convenient enough? :)
Further, you can get notifications via SMS too. But you need to have SMS credits left in order to receive notifications. Anyway, you will get 20 SMS credits to spend when you get started.
In addition to monitoring service, Pingdom offers you the Real User Monitoring service too. If you would like to set it up, you can learn about your site's performance through the real-time data collected by Pingdom service.
Free solutions tend to have limitations at some points. It's valid for Pingdom Website Monitor too. With the free account, you can monitor only one site along with one contact to manage and get notifications about outages. But, if you are very pleased with your first experience, you can purchase another solution with extra features to monitor multiple sites while having more contacts to get notified.
Shall we start monitoring your blog or website now?
Steps:
1. Go to Pingdom Free Account Sign Up page.
2. Enter your email address and a new password for your Pingdom account, and click Free signup button.
3. Now you will be requested to complete your account details. Fill them, including your Time Zone.
4. In last step, you can set up website monitoring. Enter your blog / website address, set monitoring interval and further, you can get notifications by enabling alerts option too.
More Information:
* Navigate to Dashboard to find out if any outages occurred during last 24 hours. You can view response time of your site along with uptime too.
* You can edit your profile at Contacts and set how you need to get notified when issues occurred.
* You can learn about your site's outages and performance by accessing the detailed reports offered. Go to Reports section and explore the available reports and logs.
* To enable Real User Monitoring, navigate to RUM section and add your site. To track performance data of your site, you will need to place a script provided by Pingdom when adding your site.
* If you always used to stare at your smartphone, don't worry! Grab Pingdom app (Android / iOS) and check your site status on the go. You will get in-app notifications when something goes wrong too.
* Love more goodies? Head over to Apps and Downloads to explore more helpful apps, bookmarklets and plugins.
Enjoy :-)
* You can learn about your site's outages and performance by accessing the detailed reports offered. Go to Reports section and explore the available reports and logs.
* To enable Real User Monitoring, navigate to RUM section and add your site. To track performance data of your site, you will need to place a script provided by Pingdom when adding your site.
* If you always used to stare at your smartphone, don't worry! Grab Pingdom app (Android / iOS) and check your site status on the go. You will get in-app notifications when something goes wrong too.
* Love more goodies? Head over to Apps and Downloads to explore more helpful apps, bookmarklets and plugins.
Enjoy :-)
