YouMonitor.Us- Lower price, Better Service

Recently we have revealed paid service and we would like to give our users a clear picture of how our service compares with other players on out there on the market .The uptime monitoring industry is quite young. It is only in recent years that a significant number of uptime monitoring companies have started to surface. This of course together with a growing market.

Posted at 08:35AM Feb 03, 2008 by Team YMU in Work  |  Comments[576]

Wordpress Blocking Search Engines?

WebmasterWorld reports that new installation of the popular blogging software, WordPress, is by default blocking all search engines.

Posted at 03:39AM Jan 25, 2008 by Team YMU in Work  |  Comments[1847]

How to Improve About Website Conversion?

How Much Do You Know About Web Site Conversion?

Do you even know if your web site converts? Well, believe it or not web site conversion is about taking analytics and the statistic or information from your files and programs, then using them to help your visitors find what they are looking for on your web site. It guides them to do certain things while they are on your site. Like a navigational system.

Posted at 02:58AM Jan 18, 2008 by Team YMU in Work  |  Comments[11]

Snowing-blessing or mess

These days we had the first snowing here in this winter. Not surprisingly, our daily greeting has been changed to “how lovely the snow is”. After all, a winter would not be complete without snowing. Snow may be a blessing for someone like us; it also can be nightmare for those people living in heaven snow stricken areas as recently cases of traffic interruption, black outs, flooding, hillsliding are reported in west coast of the United States.   

The acts of nature may be unpredictable, and so would the accessibility of your website be in the hands of God. As the saying goes, God helps those who helps themselves. On YMU neighborhood watch monitoring network, in the wake of natural disaster, you can be informed at the instant that your website is unreachable.

Posted at 02:47AM Jan 17, 2008 by Team YMU in Life  |  Comments[217]

Long Tail Reality on the Internet

A lot of us are huge advocates of the Long Tail theory. The basic premise of the long tail is that the internet has unlocked affordable and available content and product distribution channels that allow ‘non hit’ media (ie. non-mainstream) to find its way into our living rooms.

The internet enabled the Long Tail, but the internet is also a Long Tail within itself. Based on web sites visited by Compete’s community of users the internet has grown by 77% in the last five years to over 5 million unique domains. (Note: This count includes misspelled and unhosted domains people accidentally find themselves at).

How to stand out from the crowd? We believe that each one has their own theory on this. But according to a survey conducted by the web hosting company 1&1on 1,600 UK consumers (via survey company Tickbox.net) about their reactions to slow or broken websites, nine out of ten people would switch to a competitor’s website if a company’s website fails to load. The survey results also show that consumers are generally unwilling to report errors to the website owners.

That means your website could be down or have problems for a long time before you finally find out. This is just another reason why uptime monitoring is so important and why we created YouMonitor.Us in the first place.

If a majority of your customers know you are having problems before you do, you are in trouble.  

Posted at 03:42AM Jan 11, 2008 by Team YMU in Work  |  Comments[11]

YMU press release: Famous sites monitoring report - 2

One month ago, we published a website performance report for Internet giants like Google, Myspace, Yahoo! and MSN. In last report Google gives the best performance as its website responses much faster than other 3 sites in global scope.

Today, after we have monitored them for about 1 quarter since Oct 1^st.2007, let’s see the performance of the same four sites again. This time we set the time span to a quarter.

A clearer comparing chart here:

You want a similar monitoring service and a real-time report? Register and join us, all termly? monitoring data will sent to you. And now YMU provides a website performance ‘certificate’ - Uptime Meter, which can demonstrate the monitoring data on your own site, appearing as  pictures. Find details of Uptime Meter here.

Posted at 11:23AM Jan 10, 2008 by Team YMU in Life  |  Comments[531]

With or Without YMU

Posted at 04:24AM Jan 04, 2008 by Team YMU in Life  |  Comments[115]

Facebook surrenders on 'website monitoring' feature

Zuckerberg admits he got it wrong. Facebook will allow punters to opt out of its spying feature.[Read More]

Posted at 06:50AM Dec 29, 2007 by Team YMU in Life  |  Comments[14]

Node of the Year

As a P2P monitoring service provider, we always believe that those people helping others would in return help themselves. And this belief makes the YMU monitoring network from a notion to reality. As the year comes to an end, we set out on our search for the node of the year.

Should it be the node that is employed most often to carry out monitoring tasks? As YMU-node, they would receive monitoring tasks from YMU control center and execute those tasks. Of this, we find dozens on account that as our services grows, increasing number of node participated in our network and as a result, the volume of tasks each node receives has become close.

 Or should it be the node that has been in service for the longest time. Again, we failed to come up with a single candidate as there are plenty of nodes that have been serving as helpful hand on our network from day one, the difference may be as insignificant as a few days. They are all expressly supporters of our P2P monitoring idea.   

The message that the hit NBC TV drama-Heroes delivers is that long gone are the days of a single hero dominating the silver screen. We have been entering into the era of multiple heroes. It is a time when everyone can be someone else’s hero. So is the case on the Internet community. The honor of Node of the Year belongs to everyone that participates in our neighborhood watch network by turning their website or web server to an YMU node. Help us, help you.

Posted at 05:30AM Dec 29, 2007 by Team YMU in Life  |  Comments[55]

We’re YMU, who else can YMU be?

We are YMU, short for YouMonitor.Us, to be sure. Again, don't let the name, YouMonitor.Us fool you, it's just only our website name and brand. The idea and spirit is a peer to peer, participation based, "You monitor us, and we'll monitor for you!" vision that's revolutionary.

We may not be the first YMU existed out there nor the last one. We can’t help wondering who else can YMU be. So we did a little research.

YMU can be Yahoo! Music Unlimited, sounds cool, ur? This is a site that is all about sharing music. YMU- Yahoo! Music Unlimited enjoys world wide popularity among young as we all know that music has no boundaries.

Coming after that is YMU music version No.2, also a cute one, Yoga Music Unlimited. The Yoga music of YMU has been hailed as, "Legendary! The perfect balance of ancient and modern technologies unified through YMU's exclusive formula of scientific and spiritual methods. "

YMU can also be abbreviation for you, me and us, which should not come as a surprise. It is a site that is devoted to show couples with good relationships how to keep them that way, and to help couples with issues tackle them successfully.

Here is another one. YMU= Youth Ministry Membership. Would you tell from the name what the site is about?  Check this out by yourself and see whether you had any luck.

 Though greatly different we may be, we do have one thing in common: We’re all about connecting, whether it may be connecting people to music, connecting people to people, connecting people to future, or check whether the connecting to your site works fine.  

Posted at 02:19AM Dec 21, 2007 by Team YMU in Life  |  Comments[39]

What are the mostly used web browsers

You - as a webmaster or web developer – can’t avoid researching what web browsers your visitors are using. This determines your emphases of your development. In this sense, which is the mostly used web browser of their visitors should be the top priority for customer care team.

Posted at 03:37AM Dec 19, 2007 by Team YMU in Life  |  Comments[405]

Do You Know When Your Site is Down?

From the useless series of posts, a very geeky and information embedded post might be a shock for some. But anyways, this will probably catch the interest of bloggers and website owners alike since we all dedicate a fraction of our (if not our whole) time daily to maintaining our blogs and websites. Uptime is very important to a website, and in turn it is important that the server where the website resides is always to almost always accessible. Everyone who owns a website wants their website to experience minimal or no downtime because if the site always seems to be experiencing downtime, network failure, system outage or connection failure, either or both can happen:

1. loss of revenue and/or profit
2. loss of interest of viewers to revisit the blog or website

And we really don’t want our sites to be cause of great annoyance and distrust now, do we?

In order to minimize server downtime or maintain highest possible website uptime and availability, it’s important that when something does go wrong, it should be attended to immediately. If you are not the server owner, it is of course still important to notify your host provider that you are experiencing a problem and it would help if you have proof of when and how the problem transpired. And if in the case that you seem to always be a victim of server problems, you would know (and not just guess) that it’s time to move to a better host provider.

Posted at 06:24AM Dec 14, 2007 by Team YMU in Work  |  Comments[328]

Time for uptime to go up

Total time spent online is up 24.3% for Internet surfers in the United States according to data source from Compete.com. The same is true for people elsewhere. Analysis from Point Topic's most recent broadband consumer survey indicates that 86.6 per cent of UK residential internet users spend at least six hours online every week, up from 83 per cent at the end of 2006. In addition, five per cent of respondents claimed to spend more than 80 hours a week online.

We are spending more and more time online. Theoretically, average time that would be spent on each site is longer. Good news for everyone that owns a website or a blog. Needless to say, this is especially a time of considerable opportunity for online business owner or online service providers. However on the other side of the coin, if your site is consistently inaccessible or the pages keep loading, i.e. responding time over long, most visitors would be driven away and you may risk losing those visitors forever.

Posted at 08:48AM Dec 13, 2007 by Team YMU in Work  |  Comments[25]

Dilemma of Greener Uptime

Ted Samson at InfoWorld's Sustainable IT reports a thought involving twist and twirl in 365 Main's development of a LEED-certified data center in Newark, Calif. 365 Main put considerable effort into a plan to power the facility using generators running on natural gas, which would reduce 20,500 tons of carbon emission each year. The company estimated the project would cost $25 million, which will be all billed to themselves without charging a dime to would-be customers. They would get back, through energy-cost savings over 20 years.

There was only one problem: customers rejected the idea, even though it would have meant no additional cost. The reason? .365 Main planned to use the generators as the primary power source, with the local electric grid providing backup power. By the company's calculations, the natural-gas-powered generators alone could deliver only a 94% guaranteed uptime. Although grid backup would bring the uptime projection to 99.8%, customers were unwilling to support a greener solution if it had even a fractional slippage on uptime guarantees.

So, although the energy saving is important to company and society, but website visits and customer number are more important to each businessman. The enterprise will not exist healthily without enough customers.

YouMonitorUs want to take on the responsibility to monitor for all green sites. Everyone talks about the beauty of the intersection between business needs and green, and YMU will do action to do more to fight global warming.

Posted at 03:09AM Dec 10, 2007 by Team YMU in Work  |  Comments[56]

Christmas shopping moves online

A busiest ever Black Friday ensued by a frenzy Cyber Monday: the whole world would go shopping for the next month. Sure people would swarm the shopping malls and on the other hand, on line stores are expected to see a rush in of traffic as metrical analysis of the United States and Europe show trends of increased spending in online retail from last year, and the rate of transition from traditional to online shopping isn't showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. Here are some rosy pictures painted by the media:

Posted at 02:05AM Dec 05, 2007 by Team YMU in Life  |  Comments[3822]