You might be losing your visitors and potential customers when your web site can't be accessed, but also your losses might be more and more when your web server or your website is down. The reason for this more losses is, if the host is down when Google bots tries to access your pages, then those pages may disappear from the index until Google bots can crawl them again.
I think if you a newbie webmaster, the first idea will hit your brain is monitoring your website by hand, just by clicking the refresh button every ten minutes or an hour for example, but I think this may be wasting for your valuable time ( time = money).
There are many tools exist to do just boring task, and the most of them are free, these service can monitor your website downtimes 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and they let you know about the problem, either by email, rss, or even sms on your cell phone.
Here are some of the best free website monitoring services:-
• host-tracker.com
• mralert.com
• siteuptime.com
• montastic.com
Once the server down has occurred, the first thing you should do is checking the Google webmaster tools to see if the Google bots had tried to index your site while it was down, just check the "crawl errors" link to see if there have been any problems.
Although Google bots will give few tries before actually dropping your website from Google search results, it is vital to still monitoring your server downtimes and make adjustments when necessary.
If your website gets down often too often, you should move your website to another web hosting provider.
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