As the number of people who turn to the Internet to conduct transactions or get information about products and services increases, the importance of your site's availability increases as well. Potential customers do not have the patience to deal with downtime or poor site performance. If your site isn't available when they want access to it, chances are they won't wait for the site to come back up. They'll simply move on to a competitor whose site is up and running.
Read more →In the world of ecommerce, downtime costs your business money. Even if you manage to maintain a total uptime of 99 percent, it means that your site is down for about 7 hours each and every month. Exactly how much money you lose during those 7 hours depends on your site's sales volume and how much money your site averages per hour. Regardless of what the loss comes out to, almost everyone will agree that any loss of profits is too much. To make matters worse, downtime doesn’t just affect your site's profit margin. It also affects your site's reputation and customer retention.
Read more →Over the past few weeks we have discussed how Alertra has implemented webhooks to enhance our website monitoring services. We've discussed how these webhooks can help you enforce your site's uptime and how we are using these powerful tools to monitor the stats of 50 popular websites. If you're still not sure about webhooks, how they work, or what they can do for your site, here are some basics to help you get started.
Read more →As we mentioned last week, Alertra has introduced powerful new webhook tools to help customers handle downtime. If you want to see the power of webhooks in action, you simply need to follow us on Twitter, where we are monitoring 50 of the most popular sites as a benchmark for the online community. Want to know when some of the biggest sites are going down and how quickly they get back up and running? Alertra is making that information readily available.
Read more →Here at Alertra, it is not uncommon for customers to ask us if there is any way that we can help them when we detect that their website has gone down. After being asked this question numerous times, we realized that it would make our customers lives much easier if we could change the DNS entry for their website during an outage so that it would point to the IP address of a backup server where the site would be live and functional.
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