Website Uptime
Top 10 Website Outages of 2014
Here we present in (mostly) chronological order, the 10 biggest website outages of 2014. (If you think we forgot any, let us know!)
March 26, 2015
Here we present in (mostly) chronological order, the 10 biggest website outages of 2014. (If you think we forgot any, let us know!)
Dotcom-Monitor has added a number of additional mobile devices to our mobile browser monitoring platform. The updated list of devices includes:
The EveryStep Scripting Tool by Dotcom-Monitor is a powerful macro that records scripts to perform automated monitoring of your websites’ performance. There are many advanced features in the EveryStep Scripting Tool to help customize the script to trigger notifications based upon specific needs, such as recording the time between actions. The Script Watcher is an advanced feature available when editing a script that you have already recorded.
In a recent report by IDC titled, “DevOps and the Cost of Downtime: Fortune 1000 Best Practice Metrics Quantified,” the cost of downtime was explored across Fortune 1000 organizations. The numbers they arrived at may surprise you. The average cost of application downtime among fortune 1000 companies was estimated at somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million dollars per hour! The total cost of downtime per year was estimated to be between 1.25 billion and 2.5 billion dollars per year.
Now you can monitor any SNMP capable devices on your network using the Dotcom-Monitor MetricsView product. Simply download and install the MetricsView Agent onto a machine in your network and setup the monitoring parameters in your account.
The Visual Traceroute Tool maps each hop along a traceroute, and graphically calls out dropped packets and unresponsive nodes. It also allows you to drill down into errors and visualize traceroutes from different locations on a hop by hop basis. The best way to explain how this works is to show you an
As the internet continues to grow exponentially, we see organizations relying on a great number of devices to support higher and higher standards of uptime and performance. With the release of MetricsView Performance Counter Monitors and SNMP Monitoring Agents, Dotcom-Monitor provides complete website performance monitoring solutions to give you insight
Dotcom-Monitor has launched a new script playback feature to the EveryStep Scripting Tool. EveryStep is the website scripting tool that records a script on a website with simple point and click actions. With the new feature, now you can record a script and schedule it to run automatically on your desktop
Take a look at the difference between how a page (msnbc.com) loads from an IPv6-Only monitoring location and a monitoring location with native IPv6 or 6to4 translation. You may want to think about running an IPv6 test on your own websites after seeing these results.
Dotcom-Monitor has released a suite of free website testing tools at www.dotcom-tools.com. The Dotcom-Monitor website testing tools allow you to perform a variety of tests on the performance of your own servers from external locations around the world. Perform Free Website Tests Some of the Tests you can perform include:
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