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How come you got involved in IT?

I always enjoyed working with computers when I was in school and so it seemed a natural area to study at the university. I enjoyed studying database design so once I completed my BSC in 2005, I started looking for a database developer position.

A major vulnerability in OpenSSL software was announced late yesterday, impacting all servers having the Heartbeat TLS extension enabled with OpenSSL versions states above.

The "heartbleed" vulnerability, has been already recorded as CVE-2014-0160. Further details can be found at heartbleed.com and www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt.

The bug has already scared a lot of system administrators and site owners, and the one that we've done on WebSitePulse was to release a test against this vulnerability.

So, if you want to check whether your secure server is affected or not, please visit: www.websitepulse.com/heartbeat.php

Not long after releasing our latest and most sophisticated monitoring level – the In-Browser Application Monitoring, we are happy to announce that it is now available as a free test tool.

So here’s a brief description of what the In-Browser level of monitoring is all about:

After your web servers, the database servers are probably the second most important part of your system and that is why it is critical that you monitor them in order to minimize their downtime. We have two database specific levels of monitoring that can help you with keep your servers up and running as close to 100% of the time as possible.

You can monitor both MySQL and MS SQL servers. We can even create custom solution for you if you have more specific database monitoring needs.