At an average cost of $90,000 per hour of downtime, according to published reports citing IDC Research and Strategic Research, 10h of downtime translates to a loss of nearly $1M in costs - per outage. Add in loss of reputation, negative impacts on customer satisfaction and possible future loss of customers, and what may have seemed like "small" outages suddenly add up to a huge business problem. The consequences depend on the severity of a disaster or site outage, or on the extent and persistence of IT operational failures. The best defense? A good offense, highlighted by a solid plan that focuses on both business continuity and availability. - John Bennett, Business Continuity and Availability Solutions director, HP.
Even if our website has 99% of uptime, it means that 7 hours per month it DOESN'T work. In average e-commerce site it equals several client looses, it can reach event tens of it in peak time.
Person responsible for business effectiveness at manager level should have a possibility to look in information about site availability level, as in analytics or conversion ratio.
Monitoring will make easier to define problems, execute responsibility for disasters and downtime of service concluding in increase of uptime level.
Too long waiting time for website response could bring more exit points. Monitoring will help to find out what's going on.
Testing Your website from different checkpoint on the world You can compare, by simulating user access to the website.

Why it's better to monitor with Monitority.com than hosting provider?

Hosting providers are not eager to inform their clients about problems. With Monitority.com You have full independece and objective measures.
External website test can be strong argument while negotiating with hosting companies their unproved excusions for problems.
Our main business is monitoring of different web service. Monitoring in hosting companies is not so precise and configurable.
While monitoring uptime in hosting company, it's almost true, if they have a problem with server - they will also have a problem with monitoring application because of same architecture.
We do monitor accessability from different points of the world (USA, Holland, France, Poland).

Why it's better than intranet monitoring?

Internal monitoring doesn't containt availability tests and speed loading test from different localizations. We do monitor from different places of the planet.
Internal monitoring is not monitored, dublicated or backed-up.
It needs more human resources. Also, dedicated server and it's administrations is much more cost thatn using ready solutions.
Monitority.com reveals all kind of error - physical (connections, failed response) and software (database, application, components) - it's much more complete than usual ping-monitor.

Monitority.com gives warranty on consistence of our services and technical support.
Free services almost always monitor from one localisation, causing false alarms - we do it better with double-layered architecture with backup servers, excluding false notification.
We offer for our corporate clients low-level analysis, consulting and personal service configuration.