When your site goes down, you want to know about it as soon as possible. Ideally, you’d detect that something was going badly before a failure occurred, using monit or similar software running on your server. But some failures just aren’t detectable in advance. Furthermore, if the failure brings down your server entirely, or is in the connectivity to the server, no software running on your server will be able to notify you.
Fortunately, there’s a simple and inexpensive solution: third-party monitoring services that periodically retrieve a page from your server and send you an alert if it fails. There are many such services, most of which have a limited free option and a variety of paid plans.
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According to Evans Data Corp’s latest Web Services Development Survey, Web Services with Web 2.0 interfaces are surging. Evans Data finds this in the rising use of
AJAX, a key component of the Web 2.0 architecture.
Close to half of developers surveyed say they are already working with
AJAX or plan to do so in the coming year.
REST (Representational State Transfer) use is rising as well.
The Evans Data survey found a 37% increase in respondents implementing or considering REST, with one out of four surveyed saying that they are considering REST-Based Web Services as a simpler alternative to SOAP-based services.
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