NEWS ARCHIVE
Web site monitoring and dns fail over
Microtech's web site and internet monitoring services are designed to enable you to continually check the availability and performance of your internet based services and servers from independent connections.
Your netmon service will detect any availability issues and notify you via email, instant messaging, SMS, or any combination of these, and in conjunction with our DNS services, even fail over dns to an alternative server if desired. We also support escalation of outstanding outages to alternate recipients and contact methods.
The use of multiple monitoring servers in different locations to perform the testing means false positives are kept to a minimum. The majority of servers must agree that the service is down for a notification to be sent.
Current tests include POP, SMTP, HTTP, IMAP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, DNS, and more. We also have a probe you can copy to client servers to monitor free disk space, services, cpu usage etc. Communication of the probe is outbound only over port 80 via HTTP, so there are no firewall or security issues to worry about. You can schedule testing of these services at various intervals from 3 minutes upwards.
Netmon features
- We provide an 'outside' view of your network from several locations, just as a potential client would. Routing issues, dns, and other issues quite possibly won't show up from your local network
- You don't have to pay for any software or upgrades. New features are made available free of charge to everyone
- We can send you alerts, even if your own network is down
- Alerts sent via email, real time messenger, custom URL, and SMS text message
- Content check your important pages - instantly be informed of unauthorised changes
- Monitor historic response statistics and status changes
- full dns fail over and fail back of your dns records if desired - automatic fail over to a backup web site.
There is no limit to the number of tests you can setup. Pricing is based on our simple 'webzones' system. 1 webzone (purchasable here) being required for each test you setup. You can monitor your web site for as little as £10 a year. Extra payments can be made on account for advanced 'pay as you go' features, such as SMS alerts.
Be alerted to your web site failure before your customer finds out when trying to place an order!
If you have any feedback regarding the netmon service, please do not hesitate to share it with us via the feedback page or by emailing support@mtgsy.net
Have a question? Just call or email us. You can also use the live support on the right of this page for an instant chat with a techie.
