Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Free SNMP Monitoring

Leading systems health and performance monitoring provider Monitis now offers free SNMP monitoring service. User can download and install agents on any Windows, Linux or Solaris computer and then use MontorSNMP web interface to add device monitors. SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a network protocol used to monitor and manage network devices, servers, databases and printers. According to Wikipedia:

An SNMP-managed network consists of three key components:

1. Managed devices

2. Agents

3. Network-management stations (NMSs)

A managed device is a network node that contains an SNMP agent and that resides on a managed network. Managed devices collect and store management information and make this information available to NMSs using SNMP. Managed devices, sometimes called network elements, can be any type of device including, but not limited to, routers, access servers, switches, bridges, hubs, IP telephones, computer hosts, and printers.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

free monitoring services

Monitis is launching a line of free network monitoring services. Early adopters can sign-up for invitation.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

AptDomain.name uses multi-lingual resources to determine most appropriate and attractive domain names

Aptdomain Introduces Suggestion Service that Helps Businesses Quickly Select Relevant and Accurate Domain Names

 Monitis, a leading provider of website monitoring, today released a domain suggestion service that eases the difficulty of finding relevant and available domain names.  Using a analysis engine that combines dictionaries and thesauruses of multiple languages with linguistic methods, businesses can use AptDomain.name to easily find unique and targeted domain names for their online presence.

AptDomain tackles one of the most challenging tasks of setting up an online presence:  choosing a desirable domain name that is relevant, linguistically appropriate, and attractive.  Businesses often report that because the best domain names are already taken, the process of finding a usable domain name is haphazard and tedious.  

The AptDomain domain suggestion engine takes keywords entered by the user and applies possible grammatical combinations using prefixes and suffixes.  It also searches for synonyms in the multi-lingual dictionary and can transliterate foreign languages into English letters.  Users can choose from a resulting list of recommendations or enter new keywords to change the recommendations. If one of the recommendations is suitable, AptDomain makes it simple to purchase through a one-click process.  Domain names ending in .COM cost $6.95 and those ending in .INFO are only $1.98.  Other domain name endings are also available.

Use of the AptDomain domain suggestion service is free; it currently supports English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.


Friday, September 5, 2008

Monitis with Chrome

Google's Chrome browser is an ideal candidate for Monitis products. Its Web 2.0, AJAX-powered interface works like a charm on Chrome. 

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Mon.itor.Us silently launches Aptdomain

Popular and completely free website and IT monitoring service Mon.itor.Us silently launched new domain name registration and web hosting site aptdomain (www.aptdomain.com).

Mon.itor.us is currently used by tens of thousands users worldwide and proven to be a reliable desitination to check websites availability and performance from external and internal monitoring locations. The new move is an atempt to generate revenue throught the existed user base aiming to cover running expences and to remain free for the users.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Monitis started partnership program

Monitis provides systems and network monitoring as a service. Recently Monitis launched a partnership program at http://monitis.com/MSPN .

Monitis can monitor:

CPU
Memory
Virtual Memory
Disk space
Server process resource utilization
Network device
Website
Web services
Web application logic
Database
Email
VoIP
TCP/IP and UDP
SNMP device
Web traffic
SSH/Telnet
Buffered memory
Cashed memory
External availability
Web page load speed
Customer sensors

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Apache marketing share increasing?

According to the statistics gathered by mon.itor.us Apache server's share out their almost 40,000 sites was 69%, while IIS shares were only 26%. Does it mean that Apache market share is increasing? Previously the numbers were 60-65% for Apache.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Web services/SaaS case study: independent SLA audit

Web 2.0 Company ABC provides 24/7 web services (SaaS - software as a service) based on monthly subscriptions. They have about 500,000 subscribers. They host the service on third party data center. The provider guarantees 99.99% network uptime.

In fact the application was slow during certain hours, and poor application performance raised customer complaints, cancellations, and lowered the retention rate by 5%.

3rd party external website and network monitoring discovered that the effective SLA of the application was about 95% - partially because of application performance itself, partially because of ISP bandwidth issues.

ABC using the monitoring statistics could push ISP to provide higher uptime, and also made additional investments by clustering the application database. With these measures the uptime increased, customer satisfaction increased, subscription terminations radically descreased, and annual revenue increased by $0.5M. In addition reduced number of tickets lowered service support cost

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Banking Case Study: Improving Customer Satisfaction

Bank ABC introduced online banking to its customers to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction. Although internal IT monitoring reports 100% uptime, but the bank was receiving customer complaints about unavailability of service. As a result the Bank was losing loyal customers (~5% per month) and banking transactions were reduced.

Bank management decided to use 3rd party external transactions monitoring to find out problem the real picture. The external monitoring discovered that some online application workflows indeed had functional problems and provided poor user experience. The measures were taken to improve the situation. Particularly external monitoring provides important data which bank used to push the systems integrator for better service level. Ultimately the bank could improve the reputation and customer loyalty.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

News Portal Case Study: Increasing Online Ads Revenue

A fictitious portal company PortalWeb is a high traffic news and blog website. It has 2M page views per day and monetizes the service via ads. At 1% CTR it gets 20,000 clicks at $0.5 per click. Ads’ income is $10,000/day or $300k per month.

The website couldn’t handle growing traffic which resulted in 5% downtime. Monthly loss was $15k or $180k per year. In addition PortalWeb was losing some loyal customers and traffic wasn’t growing the way it should.

The company implemented complex external and internal network and systems monitoring, which revealed the load problem during peak hours. One of the discovered causes was related to RAM memory limits. The servers were upgraded to 4GB RAM. With small investment the Company accomplished 99.9% uptime and significantly increased its advertisement revenue. The ROI exceed all the expectations.

E-Commerce Monitoring Case Study: Optimizing Web Sales

An e-commerce Company ABC is selling in average $150.000 per month goods online. The management had ungrounded feeling that they reach optimum level of sales and they were spending significant money on site promotion and advertisement. Out of curiosity one of the managers signed up to free network and website monitoring service. To his surprise he discovered that the site is rejecting to respond in peak hours about 10% of the time. With a simple calculation it was realized that it makes $180,000 in annual loses. Management decided to use premium monitoring service in order to increase visibility and investigate IT performance bottlenecks. With relatively small investment in in infrastructure and tools the sales soared by 10%.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Montis to feature major user interface overhaul

Monitis significantly improves usability of its monitoring application by adding menu tool bar. Now the navigation is much more easy and intuitive. Users still can use old navigation.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Best Hosting Providers in 2007 according to Mon.itor.Us

Mon.itor.Us published a research analyzing quality performance factors of top website hosting providers. See details at Best Hosting Providers in 2007: Mon.itor.Us statistics.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

20 Top Sites' Performance

According to mon.itor.us weekly benchmark report for 20 top websites (by Alexa) the best response time for US and European markets was demonstrated by google.fr followed by google.com. The worst response time was demonstrated by www.baidu.com, Chinese search engine. Obviously they are not much concerned about their user experience from the United States and Europe. The following companies also show bellow average response time: www.yahoo.co.jp, www.hi5.com, www.friendster.com, www.msn.com, www.facebook.com, and www.youtube.com.

In uptime category the worst results were shown by www.friendster.com (98.6%). The following sites also were bellow average: www.facebook.com (99.5%), www.youtube.com (99.8%), www.hi5.com (99.8%).