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.