What Is Uptime Monitoring And Why Is It Crucial For Every Website?

Keeping your website up and running is the crucial step of your business. Especially if you are making your life out of that website. You have to be sure that your website is up and running smoothly at all times but, sometimes things do not go according to plan. 

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Sites can go down due to human error, cyber-attacks, or hardware failure. If your website is inaccessible, your efforts might go to trash and you’ll probably face loss and customer complaints. So what should you do to prevent this? Don’t worry, we got you. In this blog, you will dive deep into what is it, what you can do about it and, how you can prevent it. 

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What is uptime monitoring?

Basically, website uptime monitoring is a service that keeps an eye on your website 24/7 and, alerts you in case of downtime. It’s a system that ensures the website is reachable anytime. 

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Why is it so crucial and why do you need it?

Well, think about it. Imagine your business is solely based on your website. Your customer is right about to check out and then boom! Your website went down. You might lose that customer, you might lose their trust and it could damage your brand value. This is where uptime monitoring tools come in handy. They check on your website with desired interval times and alert you when something is wrong. So, you could just pass on all that drama and focus on your work instead.

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How can you prevent it?

*drum roll* That’s exactly where we come into play! MonSpark can help you monitor your uptime status, and alert you in case of an outage, by call, SMS, and many integrated web applications such as Discord. That’s not all! MonSpark can monitor your DNS records, and SSL Certificates and gives feedback for your SEO leverage and more cool features. I mean, do you really need any other tool while we exist? Don’t think so. 

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How to set up uptime monitoring for your website? (Greatly detailed description, you are welcome)

Luckily, you are in the right place. I will break down into detail how to configure your uptime monitoring with MonSpark. Click here to sign up! Then, we will welcome you with our cool Dashboard which you’ll be able to customize later on.

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On first look, you can basically see all the details but if you are a detail lover like me, you might want to scroll down. ;) “Create Monitor” is where we are heading for. After choosing “Uptime Monitor”, write down the URL of the desired website, you can identify a name for the check, if you don’t, we’ll do that for you. 🤝

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“Check Interval” is where it’s at. We offer intervals between 1 minute to an hour. Depending on your decision, MonSpark will keep an eye on your dear website. 

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Ta-da! That’s literally all you have to do. Great, right? What’s even greater is that you can create a public status page for your website enthusiasts or your team. They don’t have to do anything other than clicking the status page link. 

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What are the benefits of uptime monitoring?

There are great number of benefits. First and foremost, you can focus on your business while the tool is doing its job and watching over your website. Moreover, you keep your customers satisfied, and prevent any possible loss of revenue resulting from downtime while keeping your brand value high. Furthermore, you can identify the problem that’s causing downtime, and fix the issue.

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Summary

In short, uptime monitoring is crucial for all website owners. It’s how you make sure that your website is up & running at all times.

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Until next time, stay up and healthy!

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