Author: Mark Kupfer

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Network Services Monitoring

Test Your Website Across IPv6

The age of IPv6 is Upon Us ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers is the authority in charge of distributing IP addresses in North America.  ARIN received the IPv4 blocks for North America from the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which is responsible for distribution of IP addresses and

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Page Load Speed

Google Releases Brotli to Improve Web Page Load Speed

At Dotcom-Monitor we agree with Google that “we think that internet users’ time is valuable, and that they shouldn’t have to wait long for a web page to load.”  This was their opening message today when they announced the release of their new compression algorithm, Brotli. Brotli was named after

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Network Services Monitoring

SQL Server Monitoring: A Case Study

We recently worked with a client to troubleshoot issues with a SQL Server instance.  The client was running SQL Server 2012 on a Virtual Machine.  The applications running on the SQL Server were running into issues and the client was unsure what the root cause of the issues was. Initially,

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Website Uptime

Gimp Website is Down

UPDATE:  It appears that the Gimp website registration expired and so the DNS resolution was automatically “parked” by the registrar.  Once they were aware of this, the Gimp site admins re-registered the site for another 5 years, then the site was pointed back to the original content servers, but there

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Web App Functionality

Monitor Exchange Outlook Web Access

Is Outlook Web Access down right now? What is the Outlook service status? Is Exchange down? You’ve come to the right place.  We can help you determine the answers to these questions before your users have a chance to ask them.  We will show you how to monitor Exchange Outlook

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Page Load Speed

Third-Party Content Monitoring

Most websites that exist today rely on third-party elements in one form or another.  For example, there are many services to gather analytics about site traffic such as Google analytics, but in order to work properly they require you to load a small script as a part of each web

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Dotcom-Monitor News

Secure360 Conference 2015

What We Learned at the Secure360 Conference We attended the Secure360 Conference at the River City Center in St. Paul this year and learned a few things about the various needs of the attendants.  Everyone is concerned about security in their organization, but the topic is so broad that it

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Dotcom-Monitor News

New Monitoring Location: Seattle, Washington

New Monitoring Location in the United States:  Seattle, Washington We continue to expand our monitoring network to better suite your needs.  Add Seattle to your existing monitored devices by editing locations for multiple agents at once. Seattle, WA Details IPv4: 23.81.0.59 IPv6: 6to4

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Blackberry Enterprise Server Monitoring
Network Services Monitoring

Blackberry Enterprise Server Monitoring for Exchange Email

I have fielded several interesting questions recently about how our monitoring systems work, some of them asking if we can monitor very specific technologies.  The short answer is generally, yes- if it is online and can be reached either outside of your firewall via our dozens of monitoring locations, or

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Dotcom-Monitor
Network Services Monitoring

A Complete Monitoring Solution for Small and Medium Business

Over time, the number of tools used to manage a businesses IT infrastructure can grow into an unwieldy set of utilities, programs and services with an unmanageable list of quality and performance reports. Because of this, many small and medium businesses are looking for a simple all-in-one solution to fit

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