Network Monitoring Services

Well, there a lot of monitoring tools and softwares to monitor your network. Nagios is the best open source network monitoring software, but it requires some admin skills to set it up on your server and configure it. Today i would like to tell about online network monitoring tools by Dotcom Monitor.

Dotcom Monitor has been established in 1998 and since they improved their monitoring tools to be the most powerfull and stable network monitoring service. They monitor websites of well known and big companies, goverment and educational institutions. At their website http://www.dotcom-monitor.com you may examine the list of their clients.

So, how Dotcom Monitor works? They have several servers on different continents and their remote agents monitor network applications all the time. So you will get many parametres about your network status. When something goes wrong with your server you will be nitified by email, sms, phone call and you may cut the offtime of your website asap.

Dotcom offers many protocols and services to be monitored: POP3, SMTP, FTP, SOAP, UDP, DNS, VIDEO STREAMING MONITORING and event the temperature of your webserver. All your custom scripts can be monitored by Dotcom’s agents.

You may sign up and check those tools for free. But you have to put a small banner at your website to be monitored for free. If you want you may buy a subscription to get all the features of network monitoring tools. Such way no banner required. Prices are available at there website http://www.dotcom-monitor.com

I hope you found this article very helpful for your business because the uptime of your network or website means that your customers trust you and you will not lose them.

The “Network Monitoring” term describes service(s) which constanly monitors your website or network and alert system administrator when something goes wrong. Alerts can be sent via email, sms, phone call etc.

Usually network monitoring software monitors the uptime of your web server. But it also can monitor different services and protocols. Even your custom scripts can be monitored for failure or crash. All well known protocols are available for monitoring: pop3, smtp, imap, ftp and etc.