Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Key Web Monitoring Services

Web monitoring plays a critical role in running a business on the Internet successfully. It gives a lot to the website owner like online reputation, customer satisfaction, revenue, credibility, etc. In this post, we'll discuss key web monitoring services like website, URL, transaction, server monitoring, etc.

Website availability monitoring: It is an essential part to be carried out to know the website performance. When once your website is added to the tool of monitoring, HTTP and HTTPS requests are sent to your website to check its performance and availability. This helps you to ensure that your website is up and running at peak performance at all times. And you will get immediate notification of its performance or errors or website downtime via emails, SMS or RSS feeds. These reports are sent daily/ weekly through emails.

Benefits of website availability monitoring
  • When once you get notification of site's downtime or any error, you can analyze and find the root cause of the problem. And you can resolve it quickly before your customer react and complain to you.
  • Every minute of site's downtime equates to loss of revenue. By instant notification, you can resolve issue to the fastest. Hence, by minimizing downtime, minimizes the risk of loss of revenue to your business.
  • It improves your the experience of your website's end user and thereby enhances your organization's reputation.
Website performance monitoring
check website status
  • It monitors the timings of each element happening in your browser.
  • Each element of the HTML page is monitored like style sheets, images, scripts etc.
  • Monitors maximum size of the single page including its elements like script, images, styles etc.
  • Loading speed of the each page of the website.
  • Monitors errors in a web page like missing images.
  • Monitors maximum size of the entire page including all the elements of downloaded page.
Transaction monitoring
  • Monitors all the transaction of the end users in your browser.
  • Monitors shopping carts, click paths, log in, registration forms, etc.
  • Generate all the real transaction from different locations across the world.
  • Monitors and detects the performance issues.
  • You will receive alerts when transactions are not working or slow.
Server monitoring
Server monitoring involves scanning the server on networks to identify issues or errors and fix problems before they affect your end user.
  • Monitors the performance of your servers to ensure that your website, server and internet connection devices are up and running.
  • Monitors your server availability from different locations around the world.
  • It monitors response time of the DNS server to find the domain name. And if this response time is longer, the DNS server should be optimized to make it to respond faster.
  • Monitors different protocols like Microsoft SQL server, Web service HTTP, web service HTTPS, PING, FTP, DNS, etc.

Friday, June 24, 2011

Importance of Information Technology in the Education System

Information technology is the process of development, installation and implementation of computer systems and applications. In the present world information technology plays an important role in the education systems and the life of the students.

Impact of Education on the Society:
A student must be prepared by the educational institutions in such a way that when he comes out he must be ready to face the challenges in the society and job market focused on technology. Students must be be able to think creatively and accept new concepts in order to remain competitive and become a functional and productive members of the society.

Communication:
Information technology has improved the communication system in the schools tremendously with the use of Internet. Schools that utilize the internet based systems for student grades, attendance and homework have information available immediately for parents. E mail can be used by the parents, teachers and administrators to communicate effectively.

Teachers:
Teachers can use IT to communicate with the colleagues around the world with the help of e mails and also interact face to face through video conference. Teachers are able to enhance instruction with the use of technology which helps to maintain student motivation and attention. With help of IT teachers can also create online grading system.

Student:
IT used in the class room increases the quality of lessons and instructions. Internet provides up to date information to the students and with the current technology, students are able to interact with students and other cultures around the world.

Data:
With the use of technology, teachers, administrators and other stakeholders in the educational system can access and gather the data easily. Data ware houses in the schools are used to store the data related to discipline and attendance which will also be used to make educational decisions concerning the student.

IT has benefits in each and every industry, but in the education system, IT is seen to be playing a key role.