How C# IEnumerable Can Kill Your Site’s Performance
When people come up to speed in C#, collection types present options. And, sometimes, these options confuse. Should you use C# IEnumerable, IList, or ICollection? And what’s an...
View ArticleMake Alerting Apps Work for You
Some years back, I worked as the CTO. During my tenure, I had a head of IT support reporting to me. He did his job quite well and had a commendable sense of duty and responsibility, and I will...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 : Towards More Mobility
In our previous article, Windows Server 2012 – New Advanced Features, we introduced some of the many new features that Windows Server 2012 provides to its clients. In this article we will focus on...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 – New Advanced Features
In this article I would like to share the new things in Windows Server 2012 that grabbed my particular attention. It’s not a full list of the new features, which you can find on the Microsoft official...
View ArticleMonitis and M3 at Velocity 2012
Velocity 2012 Last week I was honored to be invited to the famous Velocity 2012 conference in Santa Clara California, hosted by O’Reilly. Monitis was one of the silver sponsors. It was a great...
View ArticleNine Steps to Secure your Exchange Server
In this article we will list some steps you can take to make sure your Exchange Server is running as securely as possible. 1. Harden the OS We can’t stress enough how important it is to harden the...
View ArticleNine steps to secure your IIS7 server
In this article we will focus on some tips you can use in your environment to secure IIS7 servers and the application they’re hosting. 1. The first step you need to take when securing your web server...
View ArticleLow overhead and reliable CPU/memory monitoring using Monitis Custom Monitors
M3 – The Custom Monitors Swiss Tool M3 has been around for a while, receiving numerous improvements on the way. We can gladly announce it as a mature infrastructure now for server monitoring, together...
View ArticleBandwidth monitoring with ntop & Monitis
ntop bandwidth monitor ntop is a very simple yet powerful bandwidth monitor which outputs various statistics counters in RRD. RRD – Round Robin Database – is a very handy framework for saving server...
View ArticleMonitoring with Monitis and collectd
As a system administrator, you know that one of the key components of the job is understanding, in minute detail, the performance characteristics and capacity of your systems. While there exists an...
View ArticleMonitis Announces Email Round Trip Monitoring
Monitis is proud to announce the addition of “Email Round Trip” monitoring to their suite of executive application monitoring services. Once this new monitor is setup and on your dashboard, you will...
View ArticleThe Week in Website Performance News
This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitis.com blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. How to make your web site better, how to improve your users...
View ArticleWhat does Home Depot teach us about cyber security?
I shop at Home Depot fairly often. In fact, I dropped by today for some things and I didn’t even give a passing thought to the recent unwanted attention the retail chain has received. Yes, in case...
View ArticleMonitis Launches New Website!
Monitis has launched a new website, with improved functionality, design, and navigation! With our new website you will see features such as; improved homepage design, cleaner layout of page content,...
View ArticleRussian Group Hacks 1.2 Billion Usernames & Passwords
Multiple news agencies are reporting that a USA based cyber security firm has uncovered a massive hack coming out of Russia that has apparently stolen more than 1.2 billion unique email usernames and...
View ArticleMonitis Inbox within your dashboard. Read what’s new. Stay up-to-date.
Welcome to Monitis, Thanks for giving us a try! This is your Monitis Inbox—accessible directly from your dashboard. Periodically you will receive messages here regarding; in-depth coverage about...
View ArticleMissed Any of our Changes Over The Last Three Months?
Here at Monitis, we’re on a mission to not only build the best product but also, at the same time, make it more user-friendly. We listen to your feedback and suggestions and take various steps to...
View ArticleThe 404 Nemesis
Sorry, this page is not available. The dreaded 404 error message is something users hate to see and website owners detest their visitors arriving at. If you end up in the nether world of the 404 it...
View ArticleMonitis Talk: HostingCon 2013
Monitis Talk: Interview with Bianca Belmont, Monitis Sales Representative HostingCon 2013 was held in Austin, Texas this year and Monitis was very happy to be participating as a Gold Sponsor. Monitis...
View ArticleWebSite Performance E-Book
Websites are standard fare for almost all organizations nowadays. Web applications (webapps) provide web-based services at a lower cost than the same human-provided service. Cell phone...
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