Performance and security of your website and server are crucially important for your business both when you offer complex on-line services and when you have a simple static site. Your web site both corporate and personal is your representation and its work represents reliability and standard of you company. In case your website is a main platform for your business even short-term fail will cause losses. Therefore your website availability and functioning are crucial for your business.

There are some ways to monitor performance of websites and servers. The first one is manual checking. You can check all possible protocols and services with your own hands or engage special employees. But such a way is disadvantageous and can’t give you any guarantee.

Another way is a special website monitoring and network monitoring software. You can install such tools on your local machine and monitor your website and server performance. However such method also has a lot of shortcomings. For example, you website can be available from one point of the country and unavailable from another one. When you use local website and network monitoring tools you can’t notice such fact. Another huge disadvantage is the following: your network monitoring software functioning depends on your Internet provider.

The most reliable and professional method is employing on-line third-party website and network monitoring services. Universally recognized leader in the sphere of website, server and network monitoring is Dotcom-monitor. Since 1998 Dotcom-Monitor provides quality and innovation monitoring services for more than 3000 companies all over the world. Dotcom-monitor has a unique set of tools and services for website and network monitoring with surprisingly big number of notification options.

Network monitoring service is intended for monitoring all possible protocol’s servers such as FTP, SMTP, POP3, etc. Dotcom-Monitor remote agent logs on using a user name and password you provide. It checks server performance and contents. Besides, Dotcom-Monitor provides SMTP/POP3 monitoring service. This feature gives opportunity to carry out end-to-end mail server monitoring. Network monitoring service also includes such opportunities as domain name servers (DNS) monitoring, port monitoring, SOAP/HTTP monitoring, UDP monitoring and ping/ICMP monitoring service which is very useful for checking of integrity of router, firewall and other specific devices. There are also some very specific features as script monitoring service and server temperature monitoring service which is available only for third generation hardware. Such list is exhaustive and includes all necessary tools to provide the best quality of network monitoring service.

Website monitoring is a must-have online service for every e-business. Possibilities of this service are can blow off your imagination. You can monitor content of any site you specified or read server responses. Web site monitoring service provided by Dotcom-Monitor is different from the other monitoring services providers, who usually use simple ping or HTTP port connection. To satisfy all customers’ requirements and to provide the best quality of web site monitoring service Dotcom-Monitor performs exhaustive and in-depth analysis. Dotcom-monitor gives your opportunity of content monitoring, page source monitoring and scripts monitoring. Besides, there are some unique features as business transactions monitoring, global website monitoring, problem detection and analysis. A great feature of Dotcom-Monitor monitoring service is its flexibility: it is suitable both for professionals and for beginners.

To guarantee 100% quality of service, Dotcom-Monitor has remote self-acting agents which are placed all over the globe. If something goes wrong with your server or doesn’t work properly the notification process starts immediately – you can be informed via e-mail, sms, fax, pager or a phone call.

Dotcom-Monitor also provides web site load stress tests to make your on-line business even more secure.

Dotcom-monitor has been leading company on the market of network monitoring and web site monitoring for the past 10 years. It improves and develops new monitoring technology to achieve the best quality of service.

Functional website testing process emulates user activity, it loads different pages, uses links, fills up and sends forms, gets email, sends files, tries to hack your website. For example there is registration form. We have to check all possible values for all form fields thus we have to try 2-3 variants.

Email (Is it filled?, Does it correspond with pattern?, Is it unique?)

Password (Is it filled?, Does it contain “bad” symbols?)

Login (Is it filled?, Does it contain “bad” symbols?, Is it unique?)

Then we have to check that we got a correct system message. Functional testing is usually carried out by special people and requires a lot of time. There is a way to make this process easier.There are two kinds of functional testing: Browser emulators: httpUnit, JWebUnit, WebTester, SimpleTest Programs which use browser’s API: Watir, Selenium.

When your business grows the load of your website, web applications, server grows too. Besides, usually as time goes by the structure of your web site becomes more and more complicated and branched. So the possibility of any errors and fails increases. There some services and software which are assigned to find, monitor and test such facts as website performing under certain loads, a number of users can handle your website, bottlenecks and so on. Such web load stress test tools simulate real user’s activity by using remote agents. As an end-user you setup the conditions for the web site or web application you would like to stress test.

Such services keep you informed about your website performance, content and availability. Unfortunately local software is unfit for purposes of website monitoring. How can you determine fails of external channel? Can you be sure that website monitoring software is started and works correctly? At last, how can you be sure that your site is available from the outside? External website monitoring is suitable resolution for those who don’t want to lose customers because of fails which are integral part of any project. Monitoring allows you to be sure that your website works correctly and its security is not under the threat. When something happens website monitoring provider informs you by SMS, call and email with details of the fail and possible reasons of it. So, you can take actions immediately and reduce website fail.

Yahoo starts test of common identification system OpenID 2.0, which will give an opportunity to use one bunch of login-password for access to different web services. OpenID platform represents open decentralized system of common login. Its protocol was developed by Brad Fitzpatrick who developed online dairy service Live Journal.

Yahoo will represent OpenID provider. In other words after you register on Yahoo website you can use website which are the part of OpenID community without any logins and passwords. As is known OpenID is supported by more then 10000 websites. Test was started in January.

Usually network monitoring service providers have remote agents which are located in different places of the globe. Such agents work like usual browsers; they simulate users’ activity and use all possible services and protocols. Remote agents start monitoring of your network with the frequency that you have chosen. Due to such network monitoring services you can watch your entire website accessibility and performance, so you have an opportunity to minimize possible down-time and not to lose your customers.

There is a lot of different network monitoring service providers. But the most advanced include such network monitoring tool as: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server monitoring, Video Streaming Monitoring, Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) monitoring, SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), SMTP/POP3 monitoring Service, DNS Monitoring Service, DNS Blacklist monitoring, Ping/ICMP monitoring Service, Port Monitoring Service, Web Service SOAP/HTTP monitoring service, UDP Monitoring Service, temperature monitoring service, custom script monitoring service. Such set of tools and services gives you an opportunity no to be nervous about your network application performance.

Google is agree to reveal IP of scandalous blogger for Israeli government. This decision was adopted after commencement of prosecution against anonymous blogger. According to agreement between government and Google, blogger will have 72 hours to give oneself up. Otherwise Google will publish blogger’s IP. Blogger was informed about this situation by comments at his blog which wad registered on blogger.com which is Google property.

Blogger blamed Israel government for bribe-taking, relationships with criminal elements and etc. This cause seems to be unexampled because usually big companies try not to disclose users` private data.