10-25-2007, 10:30 AM
Quote:In order for an ecommerce site to sell products and services, it must be continuously available to online customers. Any downtime could potentially cause a retailer to lose thousands of dollars. Consequently, an important element in any online endeavor is having a structure in place to monitor a websites performance systems.
"There are many services necessary to keep an ecommerce site running optimally," said Manish Chowdhary, founder and CEO of GoECart.com. According to Chowdhary, in addition to loading DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, and database services, ecommerce sites need to load quickly. And while some of the ecommerce services that need to be monitored may be foreign to you, there are services available to help a merchant monitor a site for maximum uptime....
full article: http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articl...-Downtime/