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Who’s minding the shop?

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 by PalladiumHosting

Let’s face it: no one can sit in front of a computer all day, every day, monitoring their website. Who’s watching your site while you’re asleep, at work, or otherwise not near a computer? If you’re hosting with us, we are.

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, we monitor all of the sites that we host to ensure not only that they’re online, but that hardware and software problems aren’t going to bring your site to its knees. We also watch for DDOS attacks, working on these and other issues immediately, usually before you’re even aware of the problem.
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Watch the expiration date

Friday, May 28th, 2010 by PalladiumHosting

When you register a domain, your ownership isn’t absolute. Much like car registration, you must renew every year. As long as you ensure that your domain is current, you don’t run the risk of waking up one morning and finding out that your website has disappeared due to your registrar taking it offline.

It’s very simple to avoid domain lapse. You can enable automatic renewal, an option available with most registrars. As the name suggests, it will allow your registrar to automatically charge your debit or credit card on file (or PayPal account, depending on your registrar), usually precisely on the renewal date.
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Keep an eye on your site

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 by PalladiumHosting

Your site’s uptime is critical. If your site crashes, you want to know right away. While we here at Palladium Hosting respond immediately to network issues, a problem may be isolated to your site, and in that case, you’ll want to know. There are many companies out there that can provide that service for you.

One such company is Alertra, which offers affordable monitoring for your website, FTP, SMTP, and POP networks, among many others. They also offer a free 30-day trial, allowing you to try before you by. You can get alerts sent to your e-mail, IM, or cell phone.

Another company is SiteUptime, which offers a free plan, a premium plan for $5 a month, and a platinum plan for $10 a month. The platinum plan offers SMS updates, according to their Web site.

Whichever company you choose, if you go with one of these companies, or another one, you’ll know within moments if your site goes down, and that will allow you to react appropriately. As the site administrator, you want to know what’s going on with your site at any given moment, and monitoring sites such as this gives you the knowledge you want and need.

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