I’ve been monitoring the perfromance and availability of some of my websites for two years now. By measuring things like how long it takes to connect to the web server, how long it takes for the web server to respond, and how long it takes to download all the content, I’ve been able to improve the performance of several websites, including of course, BritBlog.

The website monitoring service that I use also alerts me by SMS and EMail when the web sites die, or if they fail to respond in the expected fashion. This has been particularly handy for BritBlog which runs on a rather temperamental server!

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I’ve just turned on the rank icons for technoranki now, so people should see the icons on their blogs change straight away. The scores are a bit rough at the moment because of the limited amount of data in the system, but this should improve over time.

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Well almost. I’ve finished moving everything to do with technoranki over onto a new server (from the old BritBlog server), so once the DNS updates have filtered through this should all be pretty much up and running.

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