Site24x7 Monitors Web Applications from a Real Browser

Site24x7 has just released~a feature that enables you to monitor web applications by using a real browser.~The~web application (real browser) monitor helps you~measure~end-user experience~in real time by using a robust recorder tool. The recorder captures the steps in a web transaction and plays~th...


Web hosting horror stories

Forget Halloween tales of zombies and black cats, for many businesses there’s nothing scarier than finding your website’s often down or has been hacked. Frequently leading to lost productivity, reduced revenue and reputational damage,~web hosting problems can cause SMEs and big businesses all manner of hubble, bubble, toil an...


Follow @Site24x7 and Snag an iPad mini!

Can following someone on Twitter catapult you into the ranks of the technology elite? It can if it makes you the proud owner of an iPad mini. And if you follow @Site24x7, you might just win a 16GB Apple iPad mini with Wi-Fi!

To enter our contest, you'll need to follow us at @Site24x7. If you already follow us, s...


Cloud and DevOps- Rules of Engagement

As organizations are seeking to increase quality and agility in order to expedite application delivery, decrease time to market, provide optimal user experience and, thus maximize revenue, they are adopting (or at least exploring) cloud computing and DevOps software development methodology. According to a recent Vanson Bourne survey...


Colocation: your go-to location for your servers?

Popular with private enterprises for disaster recovery and in reducing capital expenditure, colocation~(colo) is~becoming increasingly popular~with cloud service providers. According to IMS Research, the North American colocation sector generated $6.5 billion in revenue in 2012, and is expected to grow to $1...


Are you a "cloud-ready" IT worker?

At a time when much of the global jobs market is painfully contracting, one~field is bucking the trend. According to a study by market intelligence firm IDC, almost 1.7 million cloud-related jobs were unfilled in 2012. Demand for “cloud-ready” IT workers is also likely to grow 26% annually through to 2015.

While tr...


10 ecommerce conversion tactics

In the hyper-competitive world of ecommerce, a pretty interface only goes so far. Your landing page, your homepage and every subsequent page needs to be user friendly. It needs substance. And above all it needs to convert visits into sales. But if you find shopping carts are being aborted, and bounce rates are high, one or more of these reaso...


Give people what they want. Survey them.

“Give people what they want”. It’s the title of a 1981 Kinks album, a well used business expression and phrase further popularised by Oscar award-winning actor Kevin Spacey in his recent speech at Edinburgh Television Festival. But unless you know what people want or don’t want, it’s fair to say you can’t r...


Service Experienced Network Problems

Our main data center experienced a network hardware issue that affected our service. This affected our ability to monitor websites and~our customers could not login to the Site24x7 portal.

The service disruption occurred between 14:30 PST and 18:32 PST.


Choosing the right AWS instance for your needs.

Amazon Web Service (AWS) has helped transform the business landscape. Where once many businesses were restricted by their hardware and resource capabilities, AWS and other cloud platform providers have helped remove the shackles inhibiting businesses and facilitate growth.

Despite the seeming simplicity and clear advantages of...