X-Monitoring service launched! (New Advanced plan is available)
 

Hello, X-Carters!

Good news! X-Cart introduces a new service to keep peace of mind for you!

Meet X-Monitoring - 24/7/365 online monitoring service tailored specifically to the needs of your X-Cart store and aimed to minimize downtimes for your site to just a few minutes. You (and not your customers!) will be the first to know if your site is down or having problems.

Key features:

Standard plan:

• 24/7/365 online monitoring.
  We will do periodic checks of your store website to ensure that it is up and running correctly.
  
  
• Instant email notifications.
  If your website is down, you will instantly receive an alert at the email address you have specified in the module settings.
  
  
• Simple to start.
  Just download and install the module to start monitoring your X-Cart store
  
  
• Detailed availability reports
  At any time you will be able to view detailed reports on the availability of your store website for the past two weeks right in X-Cart's admin area.

Advanced plan:

• All the features of Standard plan
  
  
• Core X-Cart files integrity monitoring
  Check your store▓s core files integrity, history of changes, accept or decline changes, restore corrupted files - full control over the changes in your store
  
  
• Web content monitoring
  Any changes to the home page, shopping cart, login or registration pages are monitored based on a web content comparison mechanism
  
  
• Restore corrupted files with one click
  Restore corrupted or unwillingly modified files to their original state with just one click.
  
  
• 30-day free trial period.
  You can test the service before paying anything

For more information, subscription plans available and screenshots please refer to our official web site:

http://www.x-cart.com/extensions/modules/monitoring.html

Re: X-Monitoring service launched!
 

Nice Alexander! Is there an option for text message alerts (this would be more immediate than email fro many people).

Re: X-Monitoring service launched!
 

David, you could use your cell phone provider's email to sms system. You can send emails to xxxxxx@vtext.com and you get that as text message.

xxxxxx would be your phone number and @vtext.com is the address verizon provides.
You would just need to ask your cell phone provider which address to use to receive emal as text

Re: X-Monitoring service launched!
 

Thank you for your answer, Emerson, much appreciated! If you don't mind I'll add it to the FAQ section of X-Monitoring manual.

David, when you get an appropriate email address you should just specify it on the X-Monitoring module configuration page.

Re: X-Monitoring service launched!
 

Hi Rocky,

Sure that would be fine :)

I dont know how accurate this list is but it is a good guideline on how to use email to sms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways

Asking your cell provider would be the sure bet.

Re: X-Monitoring service launched!
 

Duh, Well I guess sometimes I ask before I think.

That is an excellent solution. Thank you Emerson and Alexander.

Re: X-Monitoring service launched!
 

Do you guys plan on adding any other features? Not sure what I would want, but any stats would be great. Just curious.

Re: X-Monitoring service launched!
 

When you say "monitoring" are you referring to just a ping check, an HTML check, a MySQL check, a specific text check or combination of all of the above? Also, how often are the checks and how are they being performed - server side push, client side request? How might this affect site performance or potential firewall blocks due to too many checks within a period? How often are the checks? Every Minute, 5 minutes, hour? "periodic" is too vague of an answer.

Re: X-Monitoring service launched!
 

actualy, it looks like the time interval is answered on the product description page - http://www.x-cart.com/extensions/modules/monitoring.html (every 15 minutes for a home page check and every 5 minutes for ping and HTTP response)

Re: X-Monitoring service launched!
 

Yes sure, we are definitely planning to grow up and implement new features. So any suggestions are welcome. Have you got one? Feel free to post it here and we will consider adding it to X-Monitoring.