What is web hosting server monitoring ?

Published by vishalhost

Dated: 2012-02-20

A web hosting infrastructure comprises of high availability clusters of different machines, with varied operating systems and applications, spread across multiple continents.

An effective monitoring system is extremely crucial for ensuring maximum uptime. Today, any web services company manages hundreds of servers with a large number of services running on each server. Manually checking each service on just one server 24x 7 is extremely difficult - across a number of servers - is humanly impossible. Companies that do not have a good monitoring system, or worse, don't have one at all, have larger downtimes and are increasing the risk of potential damage caused due to service disruptions. An undetected minor issue can change into a major issue rapidly, increasing the amount of damage caused.

In these times, Vishalhost monitoring systems and tools provide your system administrators with an all-encompassing view into the health of a globally distributed infrastructure. Companies prefer Vishalhost as it monitors a large number of parameters related to the health of servers and individual services that reside on them.

Services monitored include -

• Network Connectivity
• Server Disk Space
• Server CPU Usage
• Server Memory Usage
• Web Services - HTTP, HTTPS & FTP
• Email Services - SMTP, POP & IMAP
• Database Services - MySQL, MSSQL
• DNS Services
• All Log Files 
• Domain Name registration
• Free Website Builder 
• Security certificate 
• Reseller and many more.......

If any server or service fails or any resource utilization exceeds specified limits, then a notification pops-up immediately on the screen of all a good Infrastructure Monitoring companies Staff.

The notification system also handles escalation of issues i.e. if the issue is not resolved within 'x' minutes, SMS alerts are sent out to higher level system administrators, and subsequently to Management.

All of this allows vishalhost.com to detect and resolve any issue within minutes of it happening and ensures maximum uptime for your customers.

For more information visit  http://www.vishalhost.com/hosting.php  or email info@vishalhost.com