In today’s fast-paced tech-savvy world, having a quality website monitoring service in place is a must to achieve top website speed, performance, and subsequent business success. HostTracker gives you a unique opportunity to take an ultimate control over your website and increase its performance to new levels. Our service features lots of different handy tools that will let you monitor your website activity constantly and be the very first to know when you need to take actions. All critical information will be brought directly to you through email, SMS or voice call, or via direct message on Viber, Skype, Hangouts, Telegram or Slack. All you need to do is decide how, when and where you want to receive these alert notifications. With our service on board, you will say goodbye to those pesky website problems caused by your hosting company, DDoS attacks and missed domain (SSL Certificate) renewal.

The nasty reality of expired domains

Here are a few reasons why dropping a domain name, even if it is fast recovered, is not a good idea:

1. A heavy drop in search engine rankings and coming traffic.

2. Undermined credibility. When it comes to domains there’s nothing worse than your domain name taken by others and used for malicious purposes. Yep, you got it right, domain hijacking is real! And once you’ve got your domain expired, you become very vulnerable to this kind of threat, yet you can’t guarantee safe user experience. This means you risk to lose your customer info, brand reputation, and money as well. Well, but that’s not all… What about your potential customers? Few would disagree that another important reason why many people are prone to abandon the particular website is its accessibility. No doubt, no one likes to wait. And if it comes to making a purchase online your potential customer will wait only 3 minutes prior to leave and never come back.

3. Financial losses. Say, you’re the loyal client of particular bank or stock exchange, you’ll be definitely really upset to discover that you can’t check your financial info as the service seems to be down. Truly, the Internet is littered with tragic examples of how big companies including banks dropped domains and run into financial trouble because of that.

Let’s take a second to think about how hard it is to stay on track with the domain expiration. Actually, it's not quite that easy at all. Suppose you’ve got about 100-300 websites and even more email addresses. Moreover, every day you’ve got your Inbox bombarded with tons of different emails. Obviously, it’s really easy to scroll on some important information such as a reminder from your registrar in such a hectic situation.

If you don’t want to curse God for your memory lapses, consider jumping into some of the awesome monitoring tools like Domain expiration from HostTracker. With this tool in place, you won’t need to rely on your registrar. As you will be notified 30, 7 and 1 days before (and even after) the expiration of your domain by email or direct message.

Enabling notifications

Here are 5 simple steps to set HostTracker for sending you alerts of the impending domain expiration:

1. Sign in.

2. Upon successful login, navigate to Add check -> Domain expiration.

      3.  Enter your domain name or click on Add list if you have multiple domain names.

      4.  Click on the check boxes to select the contacts for notifications.

      5.  Click on Save when complete.

If you have Business or Enterprise packages, you’re opted to activate the domain/SSL expiration alert notifications for existing monitoring tasks.

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