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13 Website Monitoring Tools To Help Prevent Downtime

Raymond Selda — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:38:55 +0000

How many times have you thought about whether your website is experiencing downtime? Most of the time we tend to get paranoid over these things and we actually can’t blame ourselves. If your website is down then you’re likely losing out all of your potential customers. It’s really that simple.

Having a website means that your business is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is one of the advantages in setting up your online business. What you need to do is make sure that your business really never sleeps. In this article we’re going to take a look at some of the tools available to monitor your website.

Are My Sites Up?

Mon.itor.us

Host Tracker

Best Website Monitoring Tool

NetMechanic

KeepNi

WebSitePulse

Montastic

MonitorTools

AlertSite

Site24x7

SiteUptime

Alertra

I signed up for a free account at Are My Sites Up and so far everything is doing good. Do you have any experience that you would like to share with one of the tools I’ve listed? Did I forget any of your favorite website monitoring tools? If so, please feel free to leave your comments below. Thank you for reading.

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Raymond Selda — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:51:32 +0000

I always go to Lipsum to generate ‘Lorem ipsum dolor’ to fill my layouts but this time I’m going to try another website which I think is much easier for web developers. I suggest you check out HTML-Ipsum by CSS-Tricks.

The site provides HTML snippets of paragraphs, sentences, lists and a kitchen sink! One feature that I really like is that when you click inside the block the HTML is highlighted and automatically gets copied to your clipboard. Thank you CSS-Tricks for this wonderful tool!<

4 Unique Apps for Tracking Time

Raymond Selda — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:24:11 +0000

Keeping track of your billable hours is an essential task for any freelancer. Just as important is keeping track of non-billable hours, to see how much work you’re actually putting into a project, and to determine if you are utilizing your time for maximum efficiency.

Source Link: 4 Unique Apps for Tracking Time

The Cloud Player: Web-based iTunes Clone using JQuery

Raymond Selda — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:34:19 +0000

The Cloud Player is a web-based music player that let’s you…

Find and play all tracks from SoundCloud
Save playlist to your Google Account
Make smart playlists based on genre, BPM, etc.
Share your ready-made playlists with your friends and
Collaborate in making the best playlists ever.

The Cloud Player is built by Eric Wahlforss and Henrik Berggren using Google App Engine, Python, jQuery, SoundManager 2, Crystal and the SoundCloud API.

FireTorrent – BitTorrent Made Easy

Raymond Selda — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:23:57 +0000

Download torrent files directly using Firefox! Simply install the extension and you’re good to go!

Having a broadband connection really sucks when you want to download torrent files because for some reason my Internet provider doesn’t support port forwarding which can really lead to slow torrent downloads. I don’t know how they do it but with FireTorrent I get steady download speeds and can almost be competitive with other torrent clients like UTorrent, BitComet and Azureus.

If you’re using Firefox and a heavy torrent user at the same time please do try FireTorrent. I highly recommend it! Please do comment because I would love to hear your experience on using FireTorrent.