Downtime could be harmful to your business
One of the reasons I decided to create isOnline was an old article I’ve read at Forbes. It was, maybe, the biggest case I ever see. In short — Amazon and its AWS services were offline for 30 minutes. According to the article, they were losing $66,240 per minute. The total loss was about $2,000,000. Maybe for such a giant as Amazon, it’s not a big deal, but I was amazed by that big number.
Are you in danger?
The story happened about 7 years ago, but short outages happen here and there for Amazon. For example, there was another one not so long ago. Of course, Amazon knew it as soon as its services went down. For all services, hosted by AWS it was impossible to do anything to bring them up again.
Other giants like Facebook and Google have been going down from time to time. Even the largest internet corporations have troubles being online sometimes, why do you think your business can avoid it?
Those were hardware problems on the server’s side, but there are many other reasons your service is going offline.
Sometimes logs are eating like a Pacman
It happened to the one small project, I was working on. Because of a mistake, server logs were growing uncontrollably and took all the storage on that tiny server. We have the server down for some time until we found it is offline and fixed it. We did not use any kind of Uptime Monitoring by that time. The server downtime was not a big problem, as the service only started to work and had only a few clients.
I was there 3000 years ago
I started to work way before Let’s encrypt was launched. By that time, the site administrator had to pay for an SSL certificate. If it was not paid, the certificate was not updated. Even now, many use 3rd -party certificate authorities for issuing SSL certificates.
In fact, that was about 10 years ago. One time the certificate was not prolonged and because of an SSL error, the server did not respond to users correctly. I was not working on that project anymore and my client spent some time trying to find me and ask what was going on. I’m not sure how soon he found this out, but maybe he contacted me earlier if some sort of Uptime monitoring was used.
Do you know when your site is down?
Sometimes server could be restarted by the server provider and notify me at the “most suitable” moment when I am kilometers from my PC, enjoying life. Of course, you can use autostart for your services, but sometimes it does not fit all of your projects. At the moments like this, I run software through my phone but am I sure that I am notified in time? That’s why I wrote a free uptime monitor for my projects to be notified as soon as my site is not available for users.
There is a simple and free solution
There are many reasons why your site could go offline. It could be a hardware problem as well as a software problem. The sooner you know that your site is not available for your clients — the better. Don’t lose any money, while your site is offline, use uptime monitoring service. I recently wrote a free uptime monitoring. You don’t have to pay anything at the moment to be notified when your site is going offline. No posts, no costs, use isOnline
