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Website Monitoring Service – Do you need one?

Posted on January 26th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

You may be thinking that you have absolutely no need for a website monitoring service. Hold on now, don’t be so hasty. How often does your website go down in a month? How many times last month did your website experience problems like broken links or 404 errors? If you answered with uhhhhh, then you may indeed need a website monitoring service.

If you are like I am you have a million other things to do in one day and have no time to sit in front of your computer all day with your website up and constantly be clicking on all the links. Actually, I can’t think of anyone who does have that kind of time. With a website monitoring service that is their job, to constantly be checking your site 24/7. What’s more is that they will alert you as soon as something goes wrong on your site so that you can address the issue right away.

Think about it for a second. If your site were to go down for a day, how much money would you lose? Now what if your site is down for two day, three day, I think you get my point. If your site is making you money you need to be sure that it is always running properly.

Here’s the tough part, there are tons of website monitoring services out there and you can spend an entire day trying to find a good one, but the time spent can be well worth it to you in the long run. Just remember, consider service and support first and price last. It’s pointless to pay any amount of money to a website monitoring service that isn’t worth a darn.