Does your company have a solid internet presence for advertisement? Does your company carry out any form of business activity across the World Wide Web? Does your company store its crucial data on separate safeguarded servers? Do your employees need the internet for doing their work? If the answer for any of these questions is 'yes' then web monitoring is indispensible for you.
Web monitoring involves the use of several specific network based skills. Such skills are hard to find even in the most skilled IT workers. This is why outsourcing is the only viable option in this case. Besides a web presence, these services are also essential for handling the database servers of the organization. This is why it is further subdivided into two subcategories - Server Monitoring and Website Monitoring.
Web Monitoring Types: Server Monitoring
Imagine a scenario where an intruder bombards your website with hundreds of queries within a very short span of time. This will cause your server to go in the denial of service mode and all your web services will go down. If you happen to be using a shared hosting service, then the chances of such a situation arising will increase with an increase in the number of websites being handled by the server. What do you expect to do in such a situation?
Web servers are the driving force behind your website. However, despite all the effort to the contrary, these devices are highly susceptible to crashes. This is why constant vigilance is required while monitoring their functioning. This task is known as server monitoring.
You certainly are not expected to keep visiting your website every hour, day and night, to check its status. This is why most organizations prefer outsourcing such services. Following are some of the commonly offered services in this category: