::: The AlertSite Monitor :::
Vol. 3. No. 1. / Q1 2005
A Quarterly Newsletter for AlertSite customers featuring up-to-date enhancements and news about AlertSite products and services.
In this issue:
- NEW! AlertSite Security Vulnerability Scan
- San Diego added to global monitoring network
- Save Daily Email Summaries with Document Manager
- Receive Summary in XML Format
- *Bonus: Firefox Performance Tips
AlertSite In The News
 Focus on Security
AlertSite to Launch Security Vulnerability Scan
With recent high-profile security breaches driving heightened interest in online security, AlertSite adds a remote security vulnerability scan to its product arsenal.
Secure your web sites and servers before intruders attack. AlertSite Security Vulnerability Assessment identifies vulnerabilities real-time, categorizes the risks and then provides recommendations and solutions for improvement. Our powerful, up-to-date and easy-to-use remote security scanner ensures your web sites, servers, routers, firewalls and Internet-connected devices pass the SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities defined by SANS, the FBI and FedCIRC.
The AlertSite Security Vulnerability Scan will launch soon. If you are interested in participating in the FREE customer beta, please contact customercare@alertsite.com.
All we ask in return is your feedback.
Learn more about AlertSite's Security Scanning
New Monitoring Location: San Diego, California
Our new monitoring location in San Diego, CA provides an important local perspective of the Southern California marketplace.
AlertSite's global network now includes 14 locations, including 9 in North America, 2 in Europe and 3 in the Asia-Pacific.
See our monitoring network.
Save Daily Email Summaries in Document Manager
Now all daily, weekly and monthly monitoring summaries are captured and stored in customer accounts. They are accessible for seven days from the Document Manager.
Receive Daily Summary in XML Format
Some customers integrate AlertSite statistics into existing internal reporting processes. We recently enhanced the automated monitoring summaries to produce an XML version of the daily, weekly and monthly reports in addition to the regular report.
It is configured in the Manage Account folder.
*Bonus: Firefox Performance Tuning Tips
Many of us at AlertSite use the Firefox browser. We appreciate many of the features (and perhaps it's a quiet protest against the status quo).
Here are a couple of tips to speed up your browsing experience.
Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. These are the browser configuration settings.
Scroll down and make changes by right-clicking and selecting toggle to the following entries:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true."
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true."
Normally the browser will make one request at a time to a web page. When you enable pipelining, it will make several at once - which can really speed up page loading.
Next, set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8, so it will make 8 requests at once.
And last, right-click anywhere on the configuration page and select New-> Integer.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to 0. This is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
Learn more.
AlertSite In the News
| Yahoo: AlertSite Broadens Global Network Monitoring Service
"The addition of San Diego to our monitoring network allows AlertSite to bring a valuable perspective of the Southern California marketplace to our customers to Help Customers Maximize e-Business Performance."
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| TechWeb: MyDoom Variant Searches Google for New Victims
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....
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| Network World Fusion: 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.
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| Post-Gazette: Too Much Love for Hallmark
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.
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Feedback?
We want to hear from you!
Tell us how we can continue to make the service better for you.
E-mail us at customercare@alertsite.com or call 877-302-5378.
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