HostingCon 2013: Insights from the Web Hosting Conference
Held in the June heat of Austin, TX HostingCon 2013 veered away from the security focus of prior years and focused on new horizons and the fundamentals; namely, the “cloud” and web hosting uptime and performance.
Web Monitoring Metrics that Matter: Introducing the New Relic Platform
Dotcom-Monitor now integrates seamlessly into the New Relic Platform dashboard, displaying external web, network and application performance metrics, pulling everything into one place for powerful insight into your application’s speed, performance, and functionality.
HostingCon 2013 Discount Code & Giveaways! – Visit Us at Booth 0741
Dotcom-Monitor is headed to HostingCon 2013! Stop by Booth 0741 and ask us to run a free Instant Web Performance Check of your page performance or DNS resolution. We’ll not only show you how website uptime, speed and functionality directly impact customer satisfaction, but you can also try your luck at winning an RC Chopper. What’s better than that?
IRCE 2013 – RUN! GO! GET TO THE CHOPPA!
What does Arnold’s character in Predator and the IRCE 2013 have in common? Why Choppers, of course!
Dotcom-Monitor is giving away RC Helicopters at IRCE 2013! Stop by booth #1109 for your chance to win. We’ll also show you how website uptime, speed and functionality directly impact customer satisfaction and how our web monitoring services will uncover performance bottlenecks that are killing your website conversion.
Dotcom-Monitor returns to IRCE | IRCE 2013 Discount Code & Giveaways!
Dotcom-Monitor is proud to be exhibiting at IRCE again this year (see us at Booth 1109). We are extending an IRCE 2013 registration discount to our customers, giving away RC helicopters at our booth, and showcasing some revolutionary monitoring technology!
Proactive Cyber Security Monitoring – How to Prevent Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks are growing steadily at 64% worldwide per year. As the concern over cyber threats grows, an untraditional use of website monitoring has become part of the cyber security portfolio. Learn how certain Dotcom-Monitor clients are provocatively addressing phishing attacks with website monitoring.
Adding External Website Monitoring to the Cyber Security Portfolio
In addition to the internal system security and protections a bank uses, external website monitoring aids in quickly recognizing and dealing with potential security threats. In many cases external monitoring provides the earliest warning and helps to pinpoint what is going wrong during a cyber attack.
DDoS Attacks on Banks | Cyber Attacks on US Banks Continues
If you bank with anyone larger than a local credit union, it’s likely your bank’s website has been attacked within the past few months as recent denial-of-service cyber attacks have increased in both frequency and severity. An April 2013 NBC News report found that in the six weeks prior, 15 of the nation’s largest banks were offline for a total of 249 hours due to denial of service cyber attacks.
Charles Schwab Website Down | Schwab.com Downtime Issue
April 23, 2013, 4:59 PM CST – Charles Schwab Website Down. At this time, Dotcom-Monitor is tracking a Schwab downtime issue. As of 4:49 PM CST the errors include very long load times from most worldwide monitoring locations, including: Minnesota, New York, London, California, Hong Kong, Montreal, Frankfurt, Colorado, Sydney, Texas, Amsterdam, Tel-Aviv, Amazon East Cloud, Shanghai, Buenos Aries, Amazon Cloud-Japan, and South Africa.
IPv6 Requires a New Approach to Website Monitoring
Dotcom-Monitor has established a Native IPv6 Monitoring Bureau dedicated to effective end-to-end IPv6 website performance monitoring. Dotcom-Monitor tests for performance and accessibility and can also simulate real user activities such as validating text and images as well as portal logins and shopping cart functionality.
Silverlight Monitoring with Rich Internet Application Monitoring
A challenge for monitoring Silverlight is creating browser-driven monitoring scripts that mimic end user actions that won’t break due to the dynamic nature of Silverlight. In fact, many advanced monitoring solutions that use browsers won’t succeed in running a monitoring script through a rich interactive Silverlight application. In order to monitor Silverlight (or any RIA) an additional level of technical sophistication – beyond only a browser-driven monitoring script – is often needed.
Online Banking Outage: Wells Fargo down
Dotcom-Monitor is tracking a Wells Fargo down website based on a consistent failure to connect host issues that began at approximately April 4, 12 PM CST. Dotcom-Monitor has been tracking a history of banking website outages for several months and has provided analysis of banking outages for the financial industry for issues involving recent PNC bank outages, U.S. Bancorp outages, and a previous Wells Fargo outages.
