Heartbeat Monitoring for rapid response
December 2, 2013For 17 years, Digital Tsunami has hosted the websites (and email) of clients on five continents, in data centres across the globe.
With the duplication of international backbones, the geographic location of a data centre is not as critical as it once was. For instance, in 1999, to maximise performance for the domestic and international markets of Heineken China, we had to host the site on servers in both Boston and Beijing.
Our current private cloud hosting is an exceptionally robust solution, but the monitoring, maintenance and technical support we provide, is significantly aided by our constant vigilance in assessing the state of the online presence from a multiplicity of perspectives.
The most basic form of analysis is ‘heartbeat monitoring‘, confirming that a site is resolving to a server.
Using an offsite analytical tool which monitors our sites every 120 seconds, we have independent confirmation that sites are up. Support personnel have access to visual monitoring on desktops and handheld devices. An email notification is generated if a domain does not respond.
The reasons why a site may be down, can range from a client domain which has expired, a scheduled software upgrade or maintenance session, or a rare hardware failure.
As in the above graphic, a series of one hour blocks show five domains over a period of 24 hours. The green is uptime and the short red period reflects the propagation of a domain, as it was upgraded from an old Windows site on one private cloud to a new Linux site on a separate cloud. Even service interruption is practically unavoidable when delegating a domain, we work hard to minimise the disruption, in this case to just ten minutes.
Digital Tsunami also offers a wide range of web-hosting benefits including:
- anti-spam
- anti-virus
- content caching
- database backup
- database optimisation
- firewall white and blacklist maintenance
- Google Analytics (statistics) integration
- onsite and offsite server and website backup
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If you are interested in discussing your brand’s hosting requirements, please contact us.
From Our Clients
You have demonstrated patience, perseverance, attention to detail and a rare ability to perceive what was needed even when we didn't. We are delighted with the site, it performs and looks great and our enquiry rate since it superseded our previous website has already increased by 20%.
We are all very happy with the new website and believe it captures the essence of the Group One brand.
Andrew and colleagues were able to assist at every step of the website production process, providing a sleek layout with high quality images. We would like to thank the Digital Tsunami team for an excellent job.
Andrew was able to create an entirely new website in a short period of time and to budget. He and his team worked very well with both our Marketing and IT team.
We are delighted with our new website and early feedback from clients and associates is very positive.
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Thank you for all your help and patience in working with us for this successful outcome.
Digital Tsunami’s work for Leighton International has been of an extremely high quality, highly responsive and flexible in approach. Andrew and his team worked with us to understand our needs and find the most appropriate solutions.