One of the problems with being a webmaster for, or owning many different website is finding the time to properly monitor them all for potential issues. There are many different things you need to be aware of to monitor a website for. Some of the potential issue you might have to monitor for are availability, performance and content.

Availability is checking to see if the website is accessable to browsers form multiple locations on the internet. It's it important that your website remain online and available. This is generally referred to as server uptimeIf a person visits your site, and it is not available, they may not visit again.

It is also important to monitor the performance of your website. web server performance is measured by the amount of time it takes for your webserver to respond to the broswer's request. If the response time becomes slow, you may lose visitors.

Content should be monitored to ensure that pages are not altered without your knowledge. This ensures that your website has not been hacked, and that the content you expect to be there is there at all times.

Checking and monitoring for these and other potential issues can be a tedious and time consuming chore. In order to help you alleviate this, and give you more time to concentrate on the more important aspects of running your business, I recommend that you use a website monitoring solution, that will automate the process for what is usually a nominal fee. There are usually many different levels and types of monitoring that can be selected, and fuly customizable notification methods. They can usually monitor these and other potential issues for you programatically, and automatically notify you if an issue arrises. This will ensure that you have adequate time to resovle the issue before losing valuable visitors.