| Availability AND Site Performance |
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Know your website's up and running....
then get to know how well it's doing!
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net-ecg is an automatic, external monitoring service that watches your web server 24 x 7 x 365 at an interval that you choose up to a maximum of every five minutes! This ensures that your site is available to the outside world, around the clock.
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net-ecg also checks that your site is performing reliably to deliver pages and content in full and at good speed. Response time is checked not using a simple ‘ping’ request but by making protocol-level submissions and comparing the accuracy of response. The loading time of each individual page element (e.g. text, images) is measured giving the total download time. This helps provide a thorough understanding of how a web site performs over time and assists web site managers to assess and improve the quality and speed of their site.
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net-ecg can simulate the HTTP ‘Get’ function of a page or the more complex HTTP ‘Post’ protocol to simulate visitors completing forms or requesting from a list of options. Secure web servers using the encrypted Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol can also be accessed by net-ecg to ensure that users are able to use the secure data collection or payment areas of secure sites. Even password protected sites can be monitored to check login protection using either industry standard "Basic Clear Text" or Microsoft’s proprietary "Challenge Response" authentication.
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net-ecg can monitor more than just your website! FTP and SMTP mail servers can also be monitored by net-ecg 24 hours a day! If your site links to an FTP server for downloading documents, or to a mail server for sending confirmation emails, then you can cover these operations with net-ecg. You can monitor any number of different devices using a single on-line account and login.
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| It is the information provided by net-ecg that adds most value to your organisation. Trend data may help you make more informed decisions about how you host your site, the means of connecting it to the Internet and the future development plans you have for it. Having a valuable website represents a significant investment in time, money and personnel but now you can maximise your investment, minimise your downtime and manage your risk. |
