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Article: Making Your Website Healthy; Building your Web site was easy - keeping it running is the next step.(Industry Trend or Event)
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- Network World
- Article date:
- November 6, 2000
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In the olden days (circa 1995), having a company Web site was simple. Slap together a few pages of HTML that listed where your company was located and a phone number, and you were all set. If the site went down, someone visiting the site would tell you, and you'd fix it.
Those days are gone. A majority of your business is now on the Web or is heading to the Web. You need to throw a healthy budget at the site to keep the site healthy. The complexity of the infrastructure demands better performance monitoring. The minimum requirement these days is 99.999% availability. Your Web site has to perform quickly, accurately and better than your competitors'.
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