Why Server Monitoring Services Are More Relevant than Ever

Tomorrow your company is going to close a deal that is going to make your year and set the precedent for your company’s future growth. You have spent months preparing for this day and your business’s next fiscal quarter is depending on the success of this deal. Every “i” has been dotted and every “t” has been crossed. It’s now just past one in the morning and you are finally falling asleep in anticipation of the coming day, but unbeknownst to you, there are problems occurring back at the office.

The Death of the Deal

It’s now the next morning. You walk into the office with your head held high, waiting for the big meeting and to close the deal of your life. But something’s very wrong. The office is in a frenzy and your IT manager is running at you with a look of horror on his face. It turns out your core server crashed. And not only did the server crash, but crucial data was corrupted and the crash happened before the normal nightly backup could occur. To make matters worse, no one was the wiser until about 10 minutes ago when people started coming into the office. There’s no time to fix things before the meeting of your life and that big future-making deal that you were about to close is not going to happen.

The Fact of the Matter

Think this is a work of fiction? Technically it is, but it is one of those fictions that are founded in fact. Each and every year businesses experience server interruptions and, over the past five years, those interruptions have resulted in approximately $70 million in lost revenue. The sad thing is, there is a service that can be put into place to cut this number drastically. With server monitoring service in place, you can drastically reduce the amount of server downtime that your company suffers.

So how does a single service protect your profits and your company’s reputation? It’s rather simple.

An Eagle’s Eye on Your Company’s Servers

With server monitoring in place, you’d know the moment your server went down because the server monitoring service would contact you via email, phone call, and/or SMS text message. The service monitors your servers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and they make sure you know about server downtime the moment it occurs.

A quality server monitoring service may even be able to alert you of server downtime before it occurs by letting you know when your server’s performance is suffering. The server monitoring service can alert you regarding issues that could lead to a total server crash, thereby preventing the crash by allowing you to go to work to correct the problem before it results in total server failure.

How Severe Is the Sever Downtime Issue?

According to Dun & Bradstreet, 59 percent of Fortune 500 companies experience at least 1.6 hours of downtime each and every week. The exact profit loss caused by this downtime varies from one company to the next, but the top dogs, such as Wall Street, can suffer losses as great as or even more than $6.5 million per hour every time their servers crash. While you may not be Wall Street, there isn’t a single business in the world that can afford to throw profits out the window when there is a way to prevent it. And the fact is, a good chunk of the downtime that companies without server monitoring service experience could be prevented.

Early intervention is the best way to reduce server downtime. With server monitoring service in place, you are notified the moment your company experiences server downtime. This means that you can go to work faster to get the servers back up and running. This not only reduces your downtime, but reduces profit loss and productivity loss caused by the downtime. When all is considered, server monitoring service is one of the few services that can actually pay for itself with the profits it protects by reducing the amount of server downtime that your company encounters.