Today, we are adding a new section to our website - Zoho Status - which displays the health of all Zoho Applications. You can visit http://status.zoho.com to see if our applications are running and responding fine. The site provides you availability & response times for the past week along with downtime, if any.

Zoho applications are monitored from six different locations - Seattle, New Jersey, Singapore, London, Germany & Australia - and the response times for each location are displayed in the status page for each Zoho application.

This is the first version of the roll out and as with other Zoho Applications, we will continue to roll out enhancements.

Site24x7 Enterprise

So, where does Zoho Status come from? Well, it is our Site24x7 application that you may not have noticed from the Utilities section of our website that is quietly serving the needs of thousands of paid customers.

We also have an announcement for Site24x7 today. We are launching the Enterprise version of Site 24x7 with more functionality. Apart from monitoring websites and applications, this version adds more funcitonality like Defining SLAs & track their compliance for applications, Enterprise class reports & many more. Here is a comparison between different versions in Site24x7.

You might wonder where the management expertise comes from. It comes from our parent company AdventNet and its ManageEngine business unit that is doing an awesome job with an impressive list of useful applications for monitoring, management and other areas, serving the needs of IT Departments. We borrowed that monitoring technology for Site24x7. Infact, we use most of the products from ManageEngine to closely monitor, analyze, secure the Zoho data centers. We hope to borrow lot more code from them going forward :).

Coming back to Zoho Status, this is one case where we hope you wont have a need to get to this page. This initiative is yet another step to being more open and transparent with our users.

If you'd like to setup similar status screens for your applications/wesbite, head over to Site24x7 and get started with a free account.