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What 99% uptime means

The bottom line, the longer it takes your website to open, the more likely a visitor will not stay to view the content.  The result for your website – lost traffic and revenue. Is there anything worse than a slow loading page? Absolutely! A website that simply is not there when a visitor tries to […]

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The Ultimate Practical Guide for Facebook Ads

Advertising on Facebook offers businesses an incredible opportunity to reach their target audiences at a relatively low cost. Whether you are promoting a small local business or a large brand, Facebook ads allow you to connect with potential customers and build a following. This guide walks you through everything you need to know about running […]

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Is the mainframe dead?

When folks in IT mention the mainframe today, they often conjures up images of tall, bulky processors from the 1970s spinning round-real magnetic tapes or cartridges. In the same breath they’ll throw around terms like “old” and “outdated” and “legacy” to describe the system. Yes, the mainframe has been around for 50 years and has […]

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Internet Service Providers Ranking by Uptime and Availability

Our community was frequently called upon to perform a research on uptime and availability of different web hosting providers. We were waiting to collect a sufficient amount of data and gain larger coverage before publishing such a report. Now we are ready to do this and we hope that it will be useful to our […]

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Major difference between Tomcat 5.0 and Tomcat 5.5

The Apache Jakarta Tomcat is the most widely opensource web servlet/jsp container used nowdays. As more and more new versions are available, it is necessary to mention some core differences in syntax or format of configuration files between these versions. In this article I would like to show one valuable difference between Tomcat 5.0.x and […]

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How to Start a Business With No Money

While many people have dreams of starting their own business, not everyone has the cash or investors to get a start up off the ground. For those who truly have the entrepreneurial spirit driving them like fire shut up in their bones, waiting for that funding is not an option. For those who have the […]

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Web Servers Market Share : Top 10 Most Popular

Monitor.us is monitoring huge number of websites and we can also analyze which software is used for those web servers. According to our data, the list of 10 most popular web servers software and their distribution is the following: Web Server Share 1 Apache 67.83% 2 Microsoft-IIS 23.53% 3 nginx 2.31% 4 GFE 1.16% 5 […]

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Build a Mobile App in 30 minutes or Less!

Anyone who has had their ear to the ground of the mobile app world lately will have noticed a rather amazing new trend unfolding for everyday mobile device users: DIY mobile app building. The development is so profound in fact that the most fitting analogy is to reference the Web site building frenzy that occurred […]

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