SITE PERFORMANCE MONITORING

Online services that provide a periodic "heart beat" or pulse on a web site and send an alarm when it doesn't respond appropriately have cropped up everywhere, it seems, and at lower and lower prices. But the CapCal Site Performance Monitoring Service is in another category altogether.

Now available to beta testers, this new service is really a low level distributed load test that provides much more information than the usual monitoring services.

It is also used to provide a kind of "boot up" or self-test procedure for the entire site, making sure that all crucial components are present and accounted for.

Finally, it provides invaluable feedback from one update of your site to the next, ensuring that no changes are made which inadvertently have a limiting effect on capacity or performance.