Category Archives: Blog

Online Retail – and the Speed and Beauty of Performance Monitoring

Posted on February 16, 2012 by canhamb

We had the privilege of presenting a talk on performance monitoring to 800+ of the world’s top online retail IT experts at the renowned Internet Retailer – Website Design and Usability Conference in Orlando, Florida on February 15, 2012 alongside Matt Hoenck, the IT Director at Thymes.com. BTW, Matt is a great guy and a top-gun online retail IT performance professional who uses Dotcom-Monitor. Continue reading →

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Level3 and AT&T ongoing issues

Posted on August 8, 2011 by admin

Level3 and AT&T appear to be having ongoing issues over the last couple days .  The outage you have experienced is centered around one of their route-servers located in the DFW area.  We are continuing to track the issue and continuing … Continue reading →

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IPv6 Monitoring: An External View on June 8, IPv6 Day

Posted on May 24, 2011 by canhamb

External IPv6 Monitoring for IPv6-Enabled Services

As highlighted by the upcoming IPv6 Day on June 8, the need for a new Internet Protocol (IP) is well understood and accepted in the networking industry.

Requirements for more address space, simpler address design and handling at the IP layer, better Quality of Service (QoS) support, greater security, and an increasing number of media types and Internet-capable devices have all contributed to drive the development of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

What is less well understood certainly are aspects of how external monitoring helps identify key challenges for businesses using IPv6, specific areas for IPv6 performance monitoring, and the benefits of external IPv6 performance monitoring. Firstly, for brevity sake are some of the basic aspects of IPv6-related monitoring are noted in the grid below and the services to test and monitor. Then, a longer, detailed notes on the aspects of IPv6 as related to external monitoring. Continue reading →

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Tweet and Retweet Monitoring Competition

Posted on May 20, 2011 by canhamb

I’d like to win a year of Dotcom-Monitor website monitoring & application monitoring @dotcom_monitor #IRCE Booth 1827 http://wp.me/p1070N-3S

The more tweets, the more chances to win….. 1-year of Dotcom-Monitor services – either (you pick) UserView Monitoring (Standard I package), a browser driven Application Monitoring service, or ServerView Monitoring (Standard I package). The Twitter campaign is as part of Dotcom-Monitor’s exhibiting activities (Booth 1827) at the 2011 Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition (IRCE), June 13-17 . Dotcom-Monitor automatically monitors website applications and notifies users when errors occur, sends diagnostic information, and provides real-time and detailed reporting. Continue reading →

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IPv6 Monitoring

Posted on March 24, 2011 by canhamb

The switch to IPv6 is jumping to light speed. On June 8, 2011 several large organizations, including Google, Yahoo, and Facebook will run a comprehensive test for switching to IPv6. If all goes well most companies will start making the switch. However, the advent of IPV6 is not without problems and the performance monitoring solutions that worked for IPv4, will not work with IPv6.
Using an active external performance monitoring service will be critical with the advent of IPv6. Network and website managers must have a true view into end-user connectivity and the ability to receive instant notification whenever a problem occurs. For instant free test tools for IPv6 performance see ServerView Monitoring™ http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/task_instant_test.aspx and UserView Monitoring™ http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/technical-tools-browser-test.aspx .

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Interactive Agencies: CDN Monitoring to enhance “Client Experience”

Posted on November 18, 2010 by canhamb

The use of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) allows interactive agencies to position online media, such that client website and web applications load faster for a better user experience, and improved website “results” , such as – impressions, conversions, and online sales. However, use of CDNs is not without risk for both interactive agencies and their clients. By using a CDN, the interactive agency is also losing some insight into the performance of/and direct control over the online content. In fact, several issues can develop within a CDN that adversely affects online content and the websites that interactive agency’s produce for clients. As a result of these issues, the interactive agency’s relationship with its clients can suffer. However, when external CDN monitoring is in place the interactive agency maintains insights into performance issues that occur to online content positioned on a CDN network and therefore can better serve its clients. Continue reading →

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System Status

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stenzingerr

A new stream of news is coming to the Dotcom-Monitor Blog: System Status. We’ll be sure to tag these posts “status” and categorize the status related posts as “Status” for easy RSS subscribing and filtering.

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Online Retail – Monitoring the Cost of Things Great and Small

Posted on June 14, 2010 by admin

Retail – Mainstreet to Online As an owner of several main street retail businesses,  I think my grandfather would have been quite at home in the crowd of the many family owned small and regional retail website owners we met … Continue reading →

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