NetMechanic Free Monitoring For a Worry-Free Internet New Year -- Server Check Pro Immediately Alerts Users to Y2K Server Problems

NetMechanic Assists Internet Community by Offering Free
Millennium Transition Solutions for New Year's Eve

Huntsville, AL-- (December 21, 1999)— NetMechanic, the leading independent Web site maintenance and monitoring company is offering Webmasters and site owners free "try-before-you-buy" Web server monitoring service. For a period of eight hours beginning anytime before midnight December 31, 1999, anyone maintaining a Web site can receive immediate email notification if problems arise by utilizing NetMechanic’s Server Check Pro. NetMechanic service will immediately alert users if the server goes down, helping Web sites transition past Y2K glitches and sail smoothly through the new century. NetMechanic free service samples are also available anytime throughout the year.

"NetMechanic wants Webmasters to spend the last few hours of 1999 watching the century pass, not waiting for the server to crash," said Jeff Morgan, CEO of NetMechanic. "We want to remind everyone that the free sample services that we offer year-round are available to help them transition into 2000. With this opportunity to be free of the need to have someone on-site monitoring server activities, as well as a chance to try out one of NetMechanic’s tried and true services for free, no one can go wrong."

NetMechanic Server Check Pro is a service that provides economical alerting to potential problems, monitoring the subscriber’s Web server from multiple, geographically separated locations. The service currently has monitoring stations in Huntsville, Alabama, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Signing up for the eight-hour free Server Check Pro trial is as easy as submitting the URL of any Web site to www.netmechanic.com at the time that the service should commence. This is much easier and more convenient than having a staffer on-site to watch the millennium arrive. The free service will then track server responsiveness for 8 hours. A report will be generated at the end of the 8-hour test, but any problems encountered during the test will be reported via email notification.

NetMechanic also offers a subscription version of Server Check Pro, which provides continuous web server monitoring. Given any URL to monitor, Server Check Pro retrieves the target Web page every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Regular performance summaries are sent out weekly via email, as well as detailed reports on demand. With the subscription service, if the URL is inaccessible or performance drops, Server Check Pro will notify the webmaster via email, cell phone or alphanumeric page. Subscription charges for Server Check Pro are $19.99 per month per monitored URL.

NetMechanic’s services are ideal for Web designers, entrepreneurs, corporations and especially small business owners. Each of the tools has a try-before-you-buy option so anyone can sample the services before subscribing to NetMechanic’s Web maintenance tools. Check out all that is offered at www.netmechanic.com.

More about NetMechanic

NetMechanic’s superior online services are targeted toward Webmasters for all types and sizes of Web sites. Since most users do not have control of the computer hosting their site, existing desktop or server-based maintenance applications cannot adequately address user needs for Web site improvement and monitoring. NetMechanic addresses these concerns by monitoring and testing sites from its own strategically located remote Web servers, allowing easy setup with no software downloads.

NetMechanic provides a full range of site maintenance tools in the HTML Toolbox subscription service and site monitoring with Server Check Pro. The primary components of the HTML Toolbox product include Spell Check, Load Time Check, GIFBot, Link Check, HTML Check and Browser Compatibility services. These services are offered in both free trial and subscription versions that will test sites of all sizes. NetMechanic also offers Server Check Pro, a subscription service which monitors Web site servers 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

NetMechanic’s service offering is rounded out with EngineStarter, a site promotion tool that submits Web sites to the top 100 search engines. An unrivaled feature of the service is a report from NetMechanic that informs the subscriber whether the site was accepted by each search engine for consideration - along with a link to the site where problems occur so the user can attempt a manual submission.

NetMechanic, an independent Internet software development firm based in Huntsville, Alabama developed the online tools provided through the NetMechanic Web site. For more information contact Cindy O'Gorman at (256) 533- 0076, ext. 116 or by email at cindy.ogorman@netmechanic.com. For information regarding NetMechanic’s Partners Program, contact Todd Gandy at (256) 533-0076, ext. 114, todd.gandy@netmechanic.com or visit the company's Web site at http://www.netmechanic.com.

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