Monitor Your Web Site for Downtime
For those Internet business company the availability of their website is a major concern. The cost of downtime for web businesses hosting can amounts to up $10,000 an hour. And this does not include the losses which are caused by missed opportunities and sales. Losses in reputation and credibility these businesses suffer more because eventual downtime is even harder to quantify.
Many of today's web hosting providers offer 99% uptime for their web servers. If you have already chosen one or if you are going to use one with such a high uptime should you be concerned on the whole matter anyway?
Let's see how much 99% uptime means. For a 30 days month you have 720 hours totally. 99% of it is 712.8 hours. Are you comfortable with your web site taking a day off every month? And this if 99% uptime happens. Can your hosting company back up its uptime promises with real facts? How can you tell that?
For companies who make business online it may seem a good idea to move their Internet operations in-house. They develop theirself's infrastructure, hire specialized technician,only to keep their business online. The cost of such an enterprise would seem rather high for the ones seasoned in the Internet based business. Why? Because of the high cost implied: around $20,000 a year of windows hosting package, without even thinking of the logistical burden.
The best way ensure your business is online is to have monitoring reports available on your web host's uptime.
For companies or individuals having their web hosting providers monitored by a third party is a guarantee not only that their money is well spent, but also, an most importantly, that their Internet business is up and running.
Having their services monitored by a third party is beneficial even for the web hosting providers. That is very serious hosting providers. Offering reports of their uptime monitored by a third-party software and placing links to them on their website is bound to boost the confidence of their existing customers also the one of the prospecting customers in the quality of service that host is providing for its customers.