Monitor your website availablility
To make your website successful its important that its availability is 100%. Site downtime can cause serious damage in SEO and drop in sale.
What can cause down time?
Well there can be a lot of reasons for a site being down. This includes database server issues, web server server issues and DNS issues etc.
How can you monitor it?
For database related issues you can write a piece of code which can send email whenever its unable to connect database.
For server side or DNS related issues you can use some free websites which monitor your sites and send email or SMS alters. There are many paid services available which provide advance monitoring. They can monitor site from multiple geo locations and send alters.
Few free sites providing basic monitoring are
- http://www.freesitestatus.com/en/
- http://www.montastic.com
- http://www.serviceuptime.com
