How to Improve DNS Resolution Time Through Network Monitoring
We break down the importance of DNS resolution, why resolution time is important, and how website and network monitoring can improve your DNS resolution time.
December 3, 2013
We break down the importance of DNS resolution, why resolution time is important, and how website and network monitoring can improve your DNS resolution time.
The outages continue for Network Solutions. Dotcom-Monitor is currently tracking a Network Solutions email deliverability issue due to email blacklisting, as well as a separate DNS issue that occurred earlier this year.
With the advent of video streaming comes a rise in performance problems, including pixilation, buffering, and latency. Therefore, the importance of keeping the stream flowing has never been more crucial; every second of delayed video load time increases the likelihood that your target market will go elsewhere for the content.
While many traditional website monitoring solutions offer alerts based on preferred device (think e-mail, phone or SMS), they lack robust customization like group alerting or alert escalation. Dotcom-Monitor’s industry leading alerting system offers fully customizable templates for each member of an alert group, enabling each team member to receive tailored messages based on their role and need for error diagnostic information. Providing comprehensive customization of group alerts is just one small way that Dotcom-Monitor maintains its competitive edge.
As a network engineer, your job is to ensure neither money, nor your company’s reputation is left on the table. With proper network monitoring software in place, you can receive real-time alerts about the performance of your network, meaning you will never come to work surprised.
Two crucial network monitoring functions – Devices and Tasks – work together to keep close tabs on your network performance. Learn the difference between monitoring Devices and monitoring Tasks and how each is an ongoing system of maintenance that is constantly deployed to prevent individual target failures.
Amazon Down! – Dotcom-Monitor is tracking an Amazon.com website outage that started at approximately 1:55pm CDT August 19, 2013. To test the current status of Amazon click here.
New York Times Website Down – The New York Times online publication NYTimes.com suffered a website outage late Wednesday morning, Aug. 13, 2013.
The Downside to Big Box “Retail” Hosting Companies – As we learned while exhibiting at HostingCon 2013, the hosting market is evolving and consolidating. So, when one brand-name hosting provider goes down it can actually impact several other “brands”, which many people think of as separate companies.
Friday, August 2, 2013 – Major web hosting company Bluehost has suffered a global network outage, affecting thousands of websites and customers worldwide.
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