Orlando, FL December, 2008 - This holiday season, it is more important than ever that business owners with websites do not suffer any downtime or website outages, according to Steve Walterhouse, vice president of Web Service Guard, a website monitoring company.

Why Because shoppers are migrating online in bigger numbers than ever, and in this strained economy, no business owner can afford to lose customers to a website outage.

According to Forrester Research, online retail sales are expected to to grow 12 percent, to $44 billion, this year. In comparison, offline sales are expected to experience zero to 2 percent growth, according to the National Retail Foundation.

Clearly, online is where the money is – unless your business website goes down this holiday season and you don’st know about it for hours or days.

Many online retailers are experiencing website outages due to higher than normal internet traffic this holiday season. Business executives should not leave their revenues to chance by assuming their web hosting department or partner is meeting the challenge. For less than the price of a cup of coffee, business executives can insure their online revenue stream by being the first to know about a critical outage, according to Steve Walterhouse, Vice President of Operations for www.webserviceguard.com. The simple registration requires no software download, install, or system privileges, and can easily be completed in 5 minutes or less.

With Web Service Guard’ss monitoring services, customers are notified immediately if their website experiences a service interruption, so that they can address the problem and restore service immediately.

An average business owner with a website will experience at least one hour of IT failure a month – and may never even realize it, Walterhouse said.

With more customers than ever flocking to online stores, and retail sales flat and sinking, keeping your website up and running is not a luxury, it’ss a necessity.

For more information, go to www.webserviceguard.com.

Web Uptime Monitor Service Company Web Service Guard Helps Businesses Stay Online This Holiday Season

In their most recent statement, Web Service Guard releases information on the five major causes of website service interruptions and IT Failures.

Orlando, FL, November 2008 – In this day and age where we rely on technology to run a business and the majority of companies own a website, extra caution should be taken to make sure that their website is always up and running.  Web Service Guard a company that specializes in website monitoring recently released a statement on the five major causes of website service interruption and more startling website outage statistics.

According to Steve Walterhouse, Vice President of Web Service Guard, the five major reasons for IT failure are; software application failure, operating system failure, hardware server failure, network failure, and misconfiguration.

Any website downtime can harm a company if customers try to visit it and find that the website is down, Walterhouse said.

“Every minute is vital when running a website in your business, as it is the easiest way for potential customers to learn about your company.  But unfortunately, an average business owner with a website will experience at least one hour of IT failure each month,” said Steve Walterhouse, vice president of Web Service Guard.  “Our company understands that importance and it’s our job to notify you as soon as the site goes down so it can be fixed and minimal time is lost.”

A recent study has shown that about 20 percent of service interruption can be caused by technology failures and environmental factors, 40 percent can be caused by application crashes like bugs or incorrect updates, and another 40 percent is from human error.

Making matters worse, when a business web site goes down, many business owners may not learn about it on their own for hours or even days, resulting in disgruntled customers and possible lost sales, and harming the company’s image, Walterhouse explained.

For more information, go to www.webserviceguard.com.

About Web Service Guard:

Web Service Guard is a website and server monitoring company that watches a website and notifies the customer at the first sign of interruption.  Web Service Guard understands the importance of a company website and offers a number of services such as e-mail alerts, error details, website monitoring and server monitoring, to make sure your website is running correctly.

Web Service Guard, the premier website monitoring company, offers uptime and performance monitoring for websites and servers.  For more information, check our Website Monitoring page.

Website monitoring company, Web Service Guard LLC, www.WebServiceGuard.com, releases shocking statistics related to monthly website outages.

Orlando, FL, October 2008 – Web Service Guard LLC, a web site monitoring service, announced today that their website monitoring service shows that the web sites they are monitoring, on average, have a downtime of 77 minutes per month.  Many companies rely on the Internet as their primary sales and marketing funnel. Web site downtime can lead to lost revenue, lost customers and damaged public image.  Many visitors who experience the downtime may question if the company has gone out of business.

“With the competitiveness of the online marketplace today, it is vital to have your site working around the clock,” vice president of operations Steve Walterhouse said. “We provide valuable information on the status of our customer’s web site.  They can now know in seconds that their website is down so they can address the cause,” Steve Walterhouse continued.

Web Service Guard specializes in helping clients monitor their web sites for problems to keep outages to a minimum. While the Internet’s 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week availability makes it ideal for attracting customers round the clock, outages can be costly. If businesses are not immediately aware of site unavailability in order to correct the problem, clients can be lost. But most business owners don’t have time to check their site every minute of the day. Web Service Guard provides around-the-clock monitoring with immediate alerts so business owners can be notified of problems quickly.

About Web Service Guard:

Web Service Guard specializes in monitoring web sites for potential outages and sending immediate notifications to business owners. Web site outages can be costly and deter web surfers from becoming potential clients. For less than a cup of coffee a day, business owners can rest easy knowing that Web Service Guard is monitoring their sites and will immediately notify them of any unavailability problems so they can be corrected in a timely fashion. For more information about Web Service Guard visit www.WebServiceGuard.com.

For more information, go to www.webserviceguard.com.