Sydney, Australia and Beijing, China Monitoring Locations Added
Dotcom-Monitor has added two new monitoring locations: Sydney, Australia * IPv4: 101.0.86.43 IPv6: 2401:fc00:0:115::2 Beijing, China IPv4: 119.90.54.225
Join Us at StarEast 2016 in Orlando FL May 1st – Software Testing Conference
STAREAST Software Testing Conference at Sea World May 1st, 2016 Use our Early Bird Code: S16VE by April 1st to receive up to $400 off registration. The code may still be used
Mobile Browsers and Manual Script Editing Now Available
Monitor Websites with Mobile Browser Scripts UserView Scripts now support over 40 different mobile device browsers including: This new feature emulates the individual browsers by changing the user agent, the
Reddit Detected Down
Dotcom-Monitor has detected that Reddit.com has gone down on 3/10/2016 around 8:30 PM CST, returning a 503 error “all of our servers are busy right now”. This seemed to be
GLibC DNS Exploit in Unix/Linux Machines
A DNS related exploit of Unix and Linux based operating systems has been gaining attention lately. The vulnerability exploits a bug in the GNU C library commonly referred to as
Network Solutions Name Servers Currently Experiencing DNS Resolution Issues
Dotcom-Monitor has detected that some customers of Network Solutions using name servers such as NS46.WORLDNIC.COM and NS53.WORLDNIC.COM are experiencing intermittent issues. Occasionally resolution attempts to the servers return improper results by pointing multiple unrelated
Accessing Data Using the XML Feed
Did you know that you don’t have to log in to the Dotcom-Monitor website to access your monitoring data? We have several options that allow you to interact with and
Is Your Website Mobile Friendly? The Mobile Speed Test
So why do you want to know if your website is mobile friendly? Most likely it is because you have heard about last year’s announcement from google over at google webmaster central. It turns out that Google has updated their algorithm to significantly increase the weight of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. That’s right, significantly! So, optimizing your site for mobile is the way of the future!
Microsoft Internet Explorer End of Support
This is a big week for Microsoft end of support agreements. As of January 12, 2016, older versions of Internet explorer are no longer supported. IE 11 is the only
The Rise & Rise of Web Application Monitoring Tools (& their benefits)
As organizations further embrace the cloud paradigm and deploy more applications to the cloud in 2013, web application monitoring tools need to continue to evolve to serve a growing and more demanding marketplace. Moreover, the metamorphosis of web applications into a complex hybrid of web and on-premise is expected to accelerate in 2013.
As industry reliance on web applications grows, the need for cost-effective solutions that ensure web operations, and protect online company reputations and revenue streams grows with it. Web monitoring tools, which constantly survey web applications for availability issues, performance bottlenecks and maintenance alerts, have emerged as the most cost-effective solution.
5 Things Your Boss Needs to Know About Your Website
You may think the answers are obvious, and the most obvious questions include: How many people are hitting our website? How many site visitors are converting? Is the blog drawing
Huge UltraDNS Outage takes down Netflix, Rackspace & Expedia!
Can your Customers Reach Your Website? You may have been aware that a large DNS provider, Neustar UltraDNS experienced an extended outage on Thursday 10/16/2015 which caused many of
