Many people ask us "why it's important to monitor your website for downtime". Here are few scenarios to explain why, and the reason we created this product.
These days many people own more then one website, if you run a business you probably run a business website, a business blog, and maybe even a personal blog. All of these websites bring in leads and help build the business brand. This makes it really important for these sites to be running, for any size business its important to get as many leads as possible to stay afloat.
Website monitoring is really important is for e-commerce sites. All e-commerce sites make their money by selling products or services through their website, well it makes it really hard to do this if the site is down. Being able to know of an issue almost instantly is a amazing benefit, because most issues can be resolved in a matter of minutes or less ( unless it's a hardware issue ). The longer the down time the more sales lost.
How many of you have launched a new website and then kept checking it every few minutes to make sure everything is running perfectly? In this scenario having a website monitoirng tool, would save you allot of time and worries, because if there are issues you will be notified by text message or email. Your website may be digged, slashdotted, or run in to an issue at any time and it's not humanly possible to manually check your website 365/24/7, for this reason you need a service like howsthe.com to monitor your websites for you.
If you have any stories of how website monitoring has helped you or other reason why you use a website monitoring service, please let us know in the comments.
