Technical Resources
Technical Features
Ping
Ping your service from multiple locations.
Ports and Protocols Monitoring
Monitor all standard ports like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, SSH, telnet, and DNS. Perform banner checks for MS SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Learn more details.
Websites and URL Monitoring
Check a URL for its availability (not just pinging a port) or response time. Search the page for a predefined string of text to ensure the content is not missing. Verify that your SSL certificate has not expired.
Example Solutions
Cloud Monitoring can be used for:
- Website availability monitoring
- Blog monitoring
- Portal monitoring
- Forum monitoring
- Web application monitoring
- Web Server Uptime monitoring (HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, Apache, IIS)
- Database Server Monitoring (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL)
- Mail Server Monitoring (POP3, IMAP, SMTP)
- Name Server Monitoring (DNS)
- Download Server – FTP
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Monitoring... uninterrupted
We have five monitoring zones, located in Dulles, Dallas, Chicago, London, and Hong Kong. The zones support each other, acting as safety nets if a data center ever has trouble. They also fill in for each other when another data center needs maintenance or an upgrade. It's all designed to keep your monitoring running without downtime.
Centralized monitoring
Monitor all of your sites—whether they're hosted at our data center, your data center, or another provider's data center.
