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Website monitoring is a process to test and verify that the users can communicate with a web application or site with ease. Website monitoring services are often utilized by various businesses in order to make certain that their websites remain live as well as respond properly. Monitoring is necessary to make certain that a site is available and downtime is reduced to e great extent.

Users who rely on a site or web application often get irritated if a site or application does not work properly and take much time to load. Monitoring can actually cover various things which an application requires functioning such as database connectivity, network connectivity, domain name system records and bandwidth along with computer resources such as CPU load, events, disk space and free RAM. The advanced website monitoring facilities include in browser web transaction check that is based on the browser addons.

A good website monitoring service can even check the pages like HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, FTP, IMAP, SSH, PING, TCP, SSL, DNS, POP3 and Telnet and other ports with different check intervals ranging from a single minute to every 3 to 4 hours.

Services of website monitoring generally have a plethora of servers all around the world like Asia, USA, Australia, Europe and various other locations. Having various servers in several locations, the monitoring service can know if the web server is actually available across the numerous networks.

As the details brought by site monitor services is urgent and is of great importance, different notification methods popularly called as alerts are utilized. These alerts include SMS, pagers, fax messages, IM, emails, RSS feed and through Skype. But generally, the most used methods are SMS and email.

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