There’s this awesome service called mon.itor.us. What it does is basically monitor a site’s uptime and downtime. If you are concerned about that, especially if you find it a critical need to make sure that your blog is up and running. If you have a lot of readers visiting your blog, this is very important! Of course, having downtime is really terrible in the sense that it is inconvenient for you too. if you have not experienced downtime yourself, that’s good for you. For those who have, you know how it feels to get emails wondering what happened to your blog, if your site is already permanently gone. There are so many hassles.

mon.itor.us to the rescue!

Good thing it is a free service! Hooray! If you don’t have an account on mon.itor.us yet, it’s time for you to sign up.

And there’s even a widget for it

The Open Source Initiative site released a WordPress widget that allows you to monitor the performance of particular sites. All you have to do is install the widget and configure it to show the snapshot of your site’s performance. Your blog could definitely use this widget because it is a very handy one. Now who says you have to be on mon.itor.us to check on your blog’s performance, right? Isn’t this simply awesome? You could be more and more of a pro when it comes to maintaining your blog with this. Now if there was an easy to use tool or service to find out if someone is trying to hack into your site, then that would be really nifty!

If you find this widget nifty, you could download it here. Also, you could give a hat tip to the people at the Open Source Initiative blog.

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