When you signed up for your current hosting plan, you were probably promised or even guaranteed a certain amount of up-time, such as 99 percent or 99.9 percent, giving you the confidence that your...
In the current consumer driven society availability of a website is important to have any chance of success. A business website is not only a source of information it is many a time a source of...
The site speed and page load times are obviously important metrics that decide the user experience, Google search ranking and customer engagement. Site loading time is critical especially if the...
For most of the business owners, a surge in their website traffic is a good news because it will likely generate more leads and may eventually convert them into sales. However, sometimes a sudden...
IT budgets tend to be shrinking, and that is a fact of life that many businesses just have to deal with. What can be controlled, however, is what a company does with the money it does have. While...
We all hear about it when a website goes down. We all know that website downtime equates to lost profits and even headlines that hurt a company’s reputation. That’s why the majority of serious online...
The Internet has become intertwined with the everyday lives of people across the globe. Right from enabling them to connect with friends and family via social media or for making on-the-spur online...
There's a saying that the best things in life are free, but that's not always the case. While there are indeed great things that you can get in life without paying a dime for them, website monitoring...
While "free" might seem like a good thing, sometimes it really is too good to be true and as many people learn, you get what you pay for. If you're not paying anything, you're probably not getting...
When your website goes down, it’s not just your website’s profits that are put at risk. The reputation of your site also takes a hit when downtime strikes. Bouts of website downtime often create trust...
Mashup is a new genre technology that has recently emerged on the web for creating interactive web applications. The purpose of a mashup is to create a new feature or service for a website or...
Server response time (also referred to as Time to First Byte or TTFB) is the time taken by the web server to respond with the first byte of content after a request is made for the webpage. When a HTTP...
There are many websites today on the web of all sizes that are using WordPress CMS. WordPress is a widely known open source platform providing support for many websites. Because of its comprehensive...
DNS or Domain Name Server is the protocol on the internet that allows users to access websites by name instead of using their IP address. When a user tries to access website using its name, the...
It has become common knowledge that website downtime equates to disaster, but that doesn’t stop it from happening. Businesses from the small start-ups to the large Fortune 500’s have experienced...
Alertra is a leading provider of website monitoring and alerting services. We monitoring service uptime and check availability and performance of Internet-connected devices.