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	<title>Free Websites Performance, Availability, and Traffic Monitoring &#187; FAQ</title>
	<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us</link>
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		<title>Monitoring transactional services with mon.itor.us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are cases when users need to monitor not just one page, but a sequence of actions to make sure the whole application is working. For example do a login and then check the page after login, or add product to the shopping card and check shopping card etc. Mon.itor.us doesn’t do such transactional testing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=141</link>
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		<title>What 99% uptime means</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Hosting providers guarantee 99% or 95% uptime. How much is that? If it&#8217;s up&#8230;   It&#8217;s down&#8230; per year 90%   876 hours 95%   438 hours 99%   87 hours, 36 minutes 99.9%   8 hours, 45 minutes, 36 seconds 99.99%   52 minutes, 33.6 seconds 99.999%   5 minutes, 15.36 seconds 99.9999% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=138</link>
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		<title>What is a “location”? What do “FRA” or “VIE” mean?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have added second location for monitoring and now we have distributed monitoring from two geographical locations: Frankfurt (FRA) and Vienna (VIE). In the near future we will add more locations for monitoring.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Why is external network monitoring important and different from provider monitoring?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some hosting companies provide network monitoring. Although there are critical differences between the provider’s internal monitoring and external network monitoring service like mon.itor.us. First, internal monitoring checks if the server and/or certain processes are up. Providers don’t check if a specific URL is available. So they can check that web server is up, but they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=81</link>
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		<title>Does it support SMS type of alert notification?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: &#8220;I tried the SMS alert but I never got any SMS message when mon.itor.us detected downtime in one of the sites I manage&#8221;. A:  Currently mon.itor.us is on beta release and it is free. That is why now you cannot get SMS notifications. But future releases will support SMS as well as IM types [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Today I have received alert notification, but my site is not down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Today I have received alert, but I&#8217;m positive that my router with IP &#8220;some ip&#8221; didn&#8217;t lose its connection with the internet. I am getting too often false alarms from your server. A: You will receive alert notification in the case if response time is above 3000 ms. Having response time more than that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=65</link>
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		<title>How you are planning to make money if the service is free?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The basic services will remain free and we will monetize it partially by using online advertisements. In next releases we will introduce advanced premium features, for which we will start charging – but only for the additional services.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=39</link>
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		<title>What makes mon.itor.us different from internal monitoring?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internal monitoring may tell you that a server is down inside your network or even that the outbound connection is having problems. But internal monitoring may not inform you that your web site is not available to the external user. Mon.itor.us provides monitoring tests from the external (outside of the firewall), or user perspective.  Many factors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=12</link>
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		<title>How it works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Multiple monitoring servers run your tests at specific intervals 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year to insure that your customers and users can reach your website. If mon.itor.us detects a failure, an email alert is sent to you. When your website is active again, you are notified as well. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=8</link>
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		<title>Downtime is expensive!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Slow Websites Cost $25 Billion in Lost Sales! &#8230; This includes more than $21 billion per year lost when users abandon a website because of excessive delays in web page downloads.&#8221; according to Zona Research. According to KPMG, 40 percent of companies that suffer a major business disruption go out of business within two years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=6</link>
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