Ensuring your website is fully functioning and doesn’t suffer from regular bouts of downtime is a must for any website owner. Downtime will affect your SEO, increase your bounce rates, tarnish your company’s reputation, lose you loyal customers, and ultimately cost you sales and revenue. But what are the main causes of downtime, and importantly, […]
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Contemporary monitoring solutions are no different from any other distributed application in your environment. Even a small-scale deployment can include multiple components: often, these include a Web server, an application server, and a database server. And as with any distributed application, you need to consider placement for each component. More specifically, when you are charged with designing a monitoring […]
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Monitoring is a lot of work. A monitoring system is a service unto itself, and like other applications, it needs care, feeding, configuration, databases, DBAs, patching, and maintenance. Though it often prevents the loss of revenue, it doesn’t generate revenue except in rare circumstances. Last, it requires vigilance and attention to detail that is often […]
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