How to monitor the availability of your site
The service is designed to automatically monitor the availability of sites and notify the owners about the detection of problems in their performance.
For effective work and promotion of any site, you need to ensure that its uptime is as close to 100% as possible. If the site server stops working, our system will notify you in any convenient way, and you can quickly resume the site's work without losing its visitors and positions in search engines.
How to set up monitoring
To add a site to the system that will be monitored around the clock, you need to enter its name for ease of tracking, for example, take a well-known social network and click “Save”.
The next step is to fill in a set of simple parameters by which the hardworking MegaIndex robot will monitor the site, let's sort them out in order.
1. Check type - you need to select the appropriate website data transfer protocol:
HTTP is the most common type of transfer protocol and is used by most sites.
HTTPS is an encrypted type of protocol that guarantees the security of transmitted data, it is mainly used by large organizations for additional data protection.
MySQL is a system for managing databases, it should be chosen when you want to monitor the uptime of the site database.
For our example, to find out the type of required protocol, you need to look at it in a browser by going to the desired site.
2. URL for verification - you must enter the address of the added site along with the type of protocol.
3. Frequency of checks - the desired frequency of the robot's visit to the site for checks.
4. Frequency of check during an error - the time after which the robot needs to re-enter the site to check, after detecting an error in the site.
5. Send notifications about a non-working service - after how many checks that have detected a non-working site, you need to send a notification about its failure.
6. Response code in the range - what code the site should return so that the robot does not consider it unavailable. Answer codes in the range 200-300 mean that the site's pages are available.
7. Response time (sec) - directly depends on the server speed, it is desirable to use a value with a small margin.
Why you need to monitor website availability
Uptime is a very important indicator of resource quality. The most likely consequences are direct loss of customers and a significant decrease in the site's position in search engines.
There is no server that has worked for at least a year with 100% uptime, every server has ever crashed or rebooted, do not believe the advertising slogans, it is only important that this value is as close as possible to the reference 100%. It is also important to quickly find out what happened right now and fix the problem with minimal consequences.
An excellent indicator of the quality of the server is the value of more than 98%, the obvious solution to increase the availability of the site is to change the server (hosting) on which the resource is located to a better and more reliable one.
Our service for monitoring the availability of sites does not require the installation of any additional software, it is simple and reliable. We value our reputation and improve it from year to year, taking into account modern trends and norms, which allows us to be among the professionals.