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February 17, 2005 MyDoom Variant Searches Google For New Victims A lesser variant of the one-year-and-counting MyDoom worm family hits the Internet, infecting Windows PCs and culling e-mail addresses from four popular search engines.
... Benchmarking data from Web monitoring and metrics vendor AlertSite bore out Cluley's prediction. "We report no impact to Yahoo and Google," said a spokesman for the Boca Raton, Fla.-based company ... Read entire article...
February 16, 2005 The Many Faces of Application Management
Another variation is Web site availability services, such as AlertSite, that can notify you when your site is down. Read entire article...
February 15, 2005 Too much love for Hallmark.com High traffic hangs up delivery of e-Valentines
AlertSite, a Florida company that monitors Web site performance, reported no problems accessing the Hallmark site from midnight on until about 7 a.m.; at that point, its servers got through only 29 percent of the time. Read entire article...
February 14, 2005 Valentine's Day Crashes Hallmark.com
AlertSite, a Coconut Creek, Fla.-based Web site metrics provider, noted that starting as early as 7 a.m. EDT Hallmark.com began experiencing problems. Read entire article...
December 28, 2004 Holiday Hits, Misses for E-Tailers
Two PC manufacturers fared best in this year's online holiday shopping onslaught, according to officials at Web site performance monitoring firm AlertSite Tuesday. Read entire article...
December 15, 2004 Web hosting suppliers should act faster when customers are hacked
... our service provider had no idea that we had been hacked - the only reason that we found out was because we use a third-party monitor from AlertSite (http://www.alertsite.com) that notifies us when there is a content change on the site ... Read entire article...
December 8, 2004 Giant Retailer Web Sites Hit With Outages
AlertSite.com, a company that monitors Web site performance and uptime, was unable to access Walmart.com from its seven monitoring locations in the United States at three different times on Wednesday morning Eastern Standard Time, said Ken Godskind, the company's marketing vice president. Read entire article...
December 6, 2004 Amazon.com Experiences Sporadic Outage
Some customers had trouble reaching Amazon.com's Web site on Monday in what analysts described as probable technical difficulties for the world's largest online retailer during the crucial holiday selling season. Read entire article...
November 30, 2004 Online Retailers Better Prepared For Holiday Shopping
Online-retail sites this year seem better prepared for the holiday shopping season, as they benefit from the increasing number of U.S. homes with high-speed connections and adopt the tactics of brick-and-mortar stores in driving traffic, experts said Tuesday. Read entire article...
November 29, 2004 E-tailers bullish on holiday sales
The first several days of the 2004 holiday buying season showed positive signs for online retailers as industry watchers and major e-commerce sites charted above average traffic and sales. Read entire article...
November 2, 2004 Sites scramble for Election Day results
U.S. voters flocked to the Web on Tuesday, as news sites pulled out the stops on Election Day coverage, offering everything from the latest exit poll results to nuts-and-bolts information on where to vote. Read entire article...
October 20, 2004 Republican Web sites downed by mystery outage
The Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign are investigating outages that left GOP.com and GeorgeWBush.com inaccessible for six hours on Tuesday. Read entire article...
October 20, 2004 Bush and GOP Sites Suffer Outages Web Sites for President Bush's Campaign and the Republican National Committee Suffer Outages
Web sites for President Bush's campaign and the Republican National Committee suffered outages for several hours on Wednesday. Read entire article...
October 13, 2004 PayPal Returning to Normal
After nearly five days of sporadic outages, PayPal's online payment service appeared to be back to normal on Wednesday. Read entire article...
October 13, 2004 PayPal Outages Persist, Worry Users
Sporadic outages at PayPal stretched into a fifth day on Tuesday, though the company late in the day reported that access had returned to normal for most users. Read entire article...
September 8 , 2004 End-to-end SLAs require cascading
Last week, I wrote about raising the bar on service-level management by creating service-level agreements that guarantee more than specific, elemental performance and availability - SLAs based on end-user quality of experience, or QoE. Read entire article...
September 3 , 2004 Few electronic disruptions hit GOP convention
The electronic disruptions threatened during the Republican National Convention were minimal at most, the convention's infotech head said Friday. Read entire article...
August 30, 2004 Web Up To Herculean, Gold Task; Olympic Performance
It appears some sports-related Web sites produced gold medal-winning performances during the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Read entire article...
August 19, 2004 Performance monitoring: For serious site operators, it's no longer optional
Retailers are continuously focused on the customer experience-one reason web performance monitoring is moving beyond basics like page availability and download speed to track the performance of on-site transactions and individual applications. What may be overlooked is that performance monitoring serves a second key function. Read entire article...
August 2, 2004 Web Sites Now Serve as Key Performance Indicators
As the Internet has become a more important channel for interacting with customers and satisfying their requirements, Web-site availability and performance for online business processes have become key performance indicators (KPIs). Read entire article...
July 27, 2004 Mozilla Usage Flat in July Following June Surge
"Traditionally, Mozilla/Netscape has had higher weekend numbers -- about a third of point increase," Geoff Johnston, an analyst with WebSideStory, a San Diego-based Web metrics company, said. "Now, though, it's about three-quarters of a point. It looks like its weekend usage -- which usually means users haven't got the OK to use it at work yet so they're using it at home -- is happening at a faster pace now," he reasoned. Read entire article...
July 27, 2004 MyDoom's Second Stage Strikes At Microsoft
Although the spread of MyDoom.o leveled off Monday night and Tuesday morning, by mid-day Tuesday a second-round attack began by using MyDoom's infected systems to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on Microsoft.com. Read entire article...
July 20, 2004 AlertSite's Mike Lucente on Web Site Performance Monitoring
At a time when the Internet represents a notable percentage of many organizations' revenue and market presence, it is becoming increasingly crucial for businesses to ensure their Web sites are performing well. Uptime is no longer enough. Today, organizations must make sure customers enjoy their online experience -- or run the risk of them visiting a competitor's site instead. Read entire article...
July 14, 2004 AlertSite Adds Two Cities to Monitoring Network
AlertSite (alertsite.com), a provider of hosted Web site, server and Web transaction performance monitoring services, announced on Tuesday that it has added Toronto and Seattle to its global monitoring network. Read entire article...
July 02, 2004 Security flaws renew browser debate - Microsoft offers new patch, but alternatives still attractive
A pair of virus attacks exploiting its vulnerabilities had led security experts to recommend that Web surfers consider such alternatives as Mozilla and Opera. Read entire article...
May 07, 2004 AlertSite catches small website errors, prevents big ones
AlertSite is a Boca Raton-based company that electronically looks over the shoulder of companies on the Internet by monitoring their Web sites, servers and Web transactions. It reports problems, outages and system malfunctions for a monthly fee. Read entire article...
May 04, 2004 Web analytics use on the rise
Web analytics have moved from the IT department into the marketing department permanently, if recent vendor announcements are any indication. Read entire article...
May 04, 2004 Bits & Bytes - Another Virus
If it seemed your Internet surfing was a little slower Monday, it probably was. The Sasser B worm takes advantage of vulnerability in unpatched versions of Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems, according to anti-virus software maker Symantec. Read entire article...
April 28 , 2004 Netsky.x Lays Out Web Sites
The Netsky.x worm, which hit the Internet more than a week ago and targeted a trio of educational Web sites for denial-of-service attacks, has laid low two of the three in the first day of its scheduled three-day assault. Read entire article...
March 22, 2004 Management research center: The little guys
Apparently, network managers don't always have to invest a lot of money to get management services. There are service provider -like companies that perform similar tasks to those of large vendors for customers looking to start small. Take AlertSite for example. Read entire article...
March 16 , 2004 AlertSite, Mentora Team On Web Testing
AlertSite, a provider of hosted Web site, server, and Web transaction performance measurement services, released a new Web load-testing service. AlertSite's load-testing services are designed to determine how well online applications scale under the stress of user demand. Read entire article...
March 11 , 2004 AlertSite Introduces SLA Manager
AlertSite, a provider of Web site, Web transaction and server monitoring services, has introduced a new service level agreement (SLA) manager to its Web-based services, the company announced on Wednesday. Read entire article...
March 5, 2004 AlertSite Adds NYC Monitoring Location
AlertSite, a provider of Web site, Web transaction and server monitoring services, announced on Thursday that it has added a monitoring location in New York. Read entire article...
March 5, 2004 Web Hosting News: AlertSite Adds New York City Web Site Monitoring Location
AlertSite, a leading market provider of hosted website, server and web transaction performance monitoring services, today announced further expansion of its geographic monitoring locations with the addition of New York City to its global network of monitoring locations. Read entire article...
March 3, 2004 AlertSite expands global monitoring locations
Web performance monitoring service AlertSite is expanding its monitoring scope geographically with the addition of New York City to its global network of monitoring locations. Read entire article...
March 3, 2004 Beyond basic URLs, e-retail sites move toward transaction monitoring
Most e-commerce sites already monitor the availability and load time of core site elements such as the home page, but many are now moving beyond such basic monitoring... Read entire article...
February 25, 2004 MyDoom.f Spreads, Deletes Files
MyDoom.f, a worm first discovered last Friday, continues to spread, security experts said Wednesday, and unlike other variants of the persistent MyDoom, it can wreck havoc on the infected machine by randomly deleting files, including documents created with Microsoft Word and Excel. Read entire article...
February 16, 2004 Site Monitoring Gains Real-Time Management
Several forthcoming Web site performance monitoring services will try to bring real-time management capabilities to ever-expanding enterprises. Read entire article...
February 3, 2004 - Microsoft shrugs off MyDoom attack February 3, 2004 - What Web Performance Metrics Really Mean February 3, 2004 - The worm turns on Microsoft January 28, 2004 - Mydoom Worm Slowed The Net; Attack Sunday? January 27, 2004 - MyDoom Slows Web Performance April 3, 2003 - AlertSite Transaction Recorder December 9, 2002 - Chance chat led to web-site help November 11, 2002 - Who's Minding The Store? November 1, 2002 - AlertSite Enhances Reporting and Diagnostics October 28, 2002 - AlertSite to Monitor Chicago July 18, 2002 - AlertSite Add Stations July 2002 - Search Engine News: It's 2am, Is Your Site Up? April 15 2002 - AlertSite's new monitoring service feature decreases shopping cart abandonment April 15, 2002 - AlertSite adds business transaction monitoring December 31, 2001 - Technology as an industry believes in honoring its players December 11, 2001 - Excerpts from PC Magazine's feature Early Warning July 30, 2001 - Web Imitation isn't just flattery June 01, 2001 - Web Performance Monitoring Deemed "Crucial" May 21, 2001 - AlertSite Announces Singapore Monitoring Location May 2001 - FSB Fortune Small Business February 15, 2001 - eWEEK eXcellence Awards: finalists and winners December 04, 2000 - Two companies introduce gear that helps keep Web sites from crashing October 9, 2000 - Who's Minding the Store? September 2000 - AlertSite Offers Testing To Provide Perspective Of Web Site Performance May 24, 2000 - AlertSitePerformance Testing and Monitoring February 15, 2000 - Hacker Attacks Open Door for AlertSite