Web Server and Web Site Monitoring Service - the Ultimate Choice!

Do the Math

The following resources will help you determine the savings you can realize by using the WebSitePulse advanced monitoring services.


1. In most cases it will take at least 1-2 hours before you find out that your website or web system is down during the day and 5-6 hours during the night.
Therefore, your downtime before even troubleshooting begins is between 60 and 360 minutes per incident. Here are some typical numbers showing average losses provided by APM Advisors to help your calculations.

Please, select your Industry and Operation OR your Application:

Industry and operation types

	Industry	Operation	Avg. Cost per Downtime Hour
	Financial	Brokerage Operations	$6,450,000
	Financial	Credit Card	$2,600,000
	Media	Pay per view	$150,000
	Retail	Home TV Shopping	$113,000
	Retail	Catalog Sales	$90,000
	Transportation	Airline reservations	$89,000
	Media	Teleticket Sales	$69,000
	Transportation	Package Shipping	$28,000
	Financial	ATM Fees	$14,000
Application types
	Application		Avg. Cost per Downtime Minute
	ERP		$13,000
	Supply Chain Mgmt		$11,000
	E-Commerce		$10,000
	Internet Banking		$7,000
	Customer Service Center		$3,700
	Electronic Funds Transfer		$3,500
	Messaging		$1,000

2. The industry standard for measuring uptime is percentage of the total time a website was accessible and functional over a calendar year. Here are some typical values from which you calculate the downtime.

Please select your estimate Uptime per year:

	Uptime per year	Downtime per year
	95%	438 hours (almost 3 weeks!)
	99%	87 hours, 36 minutes (almost 4 days!)
	99.9%	8 hours, 45 minutes
	99.99%	53 minutes

Your estimated annual losses from downtime are:

$

B. With WebSitePulse

With the WebSitePulse continuous monitoring services, you will cut the above times by at least 80%. If you start using WebSitePulse, your estimated reduced annual losses from downtime will be as follows:

1. Your estimated reduced annual losses from downtime are:

$

2. Your cost related to our services with a typical configuration is $300/year.

Your estimated annual savings are:

$

Please, note that the above calculations do not include any indirect costs resulting from a malfunction of your website. You will have to take into consideration additional promotional and advertising expenditures needed to restore the lost confidence (and traffic) of your visitors after getting the "This page is unavailable" message for at least one hour.

Please, also note that using some of WebSitePulse advanced monitoring features results in further reduction of your downtime. Online tools such as:
- Trace route;
- Instant test;
- PING test;
- Full Page breakdown,
enable web-systems operators and IT professionals to instantly identify the source of a malfunction. Troubleshooting in these cases starts immediately thus, reducing the overall downtime and increasing the cost-effectiveness of your operations.

Please, do not forget WebSitePulse customizable Reports with drill-down capabilities serving you to analyze your web-performance and pro-actively protect your web-investments from loss and failure in the future.

A word of wisdom:

Even if you have entered "100%" as the value for your uptime, with the increasing complexity of the Internet, past performance is never a guarantee for future results.
Is the ($300/ year) too much for your peace of mind?

With WebSitePulse, you'd rather take IT easy™.