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Website Monitoring for Black Friday and Cyber Monday: Best Practices

As Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach, eCommerce websites brace themselves for the year’s highest traffic. These retail-heavy events are prime opportunities for businesses to maximize their sales, but they also bring intense pressure on websites to perform at their peak. When it comes to online shopping, even a few seconds of delay or downtime can lead to frustrated customers, abandoned carts, and lost revenue.

WordPress vs. WP Engine: Protect Your Sites

Recently, a public dispute erupted between WordPress and WP Engine, one of the most popular managed WordPress hosting platforms. The disagreement centers around WP Engine’s use of the WordPress brand, licensing concerns, and differing views on managing the open-source platform. This fallout could impact WP Engine customers especially those who rely heavily on WordPress for their sites.

Comprehensive Guide to Dotcom-Monitor's DNS Monitoring Solution

In today’s digital world, a business’s online success relies heavily on a strong infrastructure. At the heart of that infrastructure is DNS (Domain Name System). Without DNS, the internet as we know it simply wouldn’t work.. Given its vital role, any issue with DNS can lead to serious problems for a business. Things like website downtime, sluggish performance, or even security breaches are just a few of the risks that arise when DNS servers fail.

How to Use Google PageSpeed Insights Correctly: A Technical Guide

PageSpeed Insights is a Google web tool that analyzes web page performance and optimization. It provides valuable insights and recommendations to help website developers improve their websites’ speed and user experience. With this tool, we can better understand how a website performs on different devices and networks. In this post, we’re going to look at how to use it correctly, as well as giving you some technical tips along the way. Alright, let’s jump in!

Top 15 Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

Infrastructure monitoring tools ensure systems’ optimal performance and availability, enabling the identification and resolution of potential issues before they become complex. This article delves into the different infrastructure monitoring tools available and their impact on business continuity and operational efficiency.

Top 20 Server Monitoring Tools of 2023

A server monitoring tool is software that monitors the operation and general health of servers and other components of IT infrastructure. These tools continuously track and gather information on a variety of parameters, such as CPU utilization, memory usage, disc space consumption, network traffic, and application performance. So, you get real-time insights into a server’s functionality and health, and IT specialists can identify and address issues before they affect end users.

Slow Site Performance? Top Tips to Diagnose and Optimize Your Website

Slow website performance is frustrating for both users and website owners. It not only leads to poor user experience but can also impact your SEO rankings. In this video we explore top tips to better diagnose and optimize your website for speed and performance.

How to Set Downtime Alerts for your Website

Learn how to monitor your website uptime proactively, setting downtime alerts to get notified immediately of any accessibility or performance issues. In this guide, we will show you how to setup downtime alerts using Dotcom-Monitor's website monitoring tool. Get real-time insights into your website's performance, and monitor multiple websites and web applications from different locations around the world.