You have probably heard of or even used PING, Trace route and MTR tools, but how many of you know exactly how they work?

The Current Status application for iOS is designed for you to easily monitor the status of your targets via your iPhone, iPad or iPod.

This application enables you to view the status of your targets, to suspend targets, to perform “Instant tests," to suspend/activate notifications and be alerted immediately upon a failure. The best thing is that it all comes packed in an intuitive interface.

If you have an Android smart phone or a tablet, you can install our WebSitePulse Current Status application and be alerted directly to your mobile device, free of charge. Keep in mind that your device has to be connected to the Internet in order for the application to work correctly.

If you want to make sure that your DNS servers are working normally and returning the correct data, you can use our DNS advanced level of server monitoring.

Here is a quick guide on how to configure your DNS targets in your account^*.

Most of us are familiar with hacker attacks that shut down sites through a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. But as a refresher, a DDoS is an attack performed through a multitude of systems (usually compromised personal computers) on a single target.