Introduction: The Importance of DNS in Today’s Digital Ecosystem 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). DNS acts like the internet’s phonebook which translates easy-to-remember domain names (like www.example.com) into machine-readable IP
It’s extremely important that visitors to your site are able to reach the content they want, and within a reasonable amount of time. DNS monitoring is the first step in ensuring consistent performance and connectivity.
How Often are You Asked “Is the Website Down?” Such calls can lead to hours of lost time only to find out it was a minor issue for a limited user base. Do you have the tools in place to proactively detect and deal with such issues?
The new DNS caching features at Dotcom-Monitor allow you to perform some interesting tests that show how DNS caching can affect your page load speed.
We realize that many organizations monitor their online services with a number different goals in mind, and so we listened to the feedback we received that some users want to include the DNS response time in their monitoring and some users want to be able to remove DNS response from their monitors.
How you wish to handle DNS response time in regard to your monitoring needs is up to you, but we want to take this opportunity to show the differences in how DNS response time affects website load using our new tools.
We ran a test monitoring YouTube from a single location in the midwest United States with three different DNS cache settings. A basic HTTP full page load on the YouTube front page resulted in some interesting, although not that surprising results.
Keep in mind the results will vary depending upon a number of variables such as which locations you are monitoring from, the time of day, the load on the DNS servers, and on the website servers.
Release 9 Notes – Functionality and Feature Updates. Dotcom-Monitor is continuing to add functionality that increases performance, adds flexibility, and gives the user more control over their monitoring.
The Dotcom-Monitor DNS Server Monitoring platform has been updated to further ensure that your DNS services are working, resolving properly, and responding quickly.
DNS Monitoring Functionality and Feature Updates. The first of several functionality and feature updates for 2014 have been made to Dotcom-Monitor.
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.
AT&T and GoDaddy’s Domain Name Server (DNS) outages impacted vast areas of the Internet when they hit in 2012, taking down millions of websites. Learn more about the DNS process and take steps to protect your website from potential DNS disasters in 2013.
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