When it comes to running a business online, there are just some things every successful business owner will absolutely refuse to do without. A merchant account, for example, is a tool that every successful ecommerce site needs. The right hosting plan that offers the right amount of space and bandwidth. One other thing that every successful online business owner knows is that website monitoring service is not optional. It is an absolute must. Here are the top four reasons why.
Read more →If you are on a shared hosting plan, you may not realize that the traffic that other sites experience during this busy time of the year can have a significant impact on the uptime and performance of your website. On important ecommerce days like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, you may find your site down for the count if the shared server that your site is hosted on gets overloaded, especially if that shared hosting plan that you have is an unlimited one. Why Unlimited Hosting Isn't Really Unlimited
Read more →Believe it or not, the holidays can play a big role in your website's uptime and, as a result, your website downtime as well. You may think that you have your ducks in a row, but the fact of the matter is that a number of factors can come into play when it comes to keeping your site up and running during the upcoming holiday season. For example, did you know that if you are on a shared hosting plan, the amount of traffic that another website experiences can affect the stability, performance, and uptime of your own site?
Read more →When it comes to protecting your business, you know that insurance is a must. Even if you do not have a brick-and-mortar business and are not in need of property insurance or other similar physical insurance policies, you still likely invest in other forms of insurance such as errors and omissions policies and/or liability insurance. Another type of insurance that you should not do business without when doing business online is website monitoring.
Read more →Alertra has thousands of customers, but we only hear from a small percentage of them. Just the other day I looked at our customer list and found a customer that has been with us more than 10 years and none of us can recall them ever opening a ticket. That doesn't mean that the system admins have nothing to do though, we have a full day every day, including weekends and some vacations, answering your questions. We thought it might be fun and helpful to share some of them.
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