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Best practices Website monitoring

Mastering Website Maintenance: Your Ultimate Guide to Keeping Your Site Fresh and Functional

Website maintenance is not that different from keeping up with the maintenance of real brick-and-mortar stores. Would you shop at a store that’s dirty, filled with broken furniture, and selling outdated products? We didn’t think so. Website maintenance plays the same role: it makes the business inviting, makes you look professional, and engages customers. In […]

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Glossary Website monitoring

A Deep Dive into the HTTP 999 Status Code

As mentioned in our ultimate guide to HTTP status codes, the HTTP 999 is unofficial, but it still plays an important role in the flow of our online journey in unexpected ways — and here’s why. So what is it for? We all know that the digital highway is held together by something called the […]

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Glossary Website monitoring

HTTP Status Codes Uncovered: Your Ultimate Guide

Did you like our previous blog about domain hijacking? Let’s see if you know all the HTTP codes now.  There is a complex series of dialogues happening behind the scenes every time you use the internet. Your browser and servers are always communicating — and while most people don’t understand the internet’s language, it’s definitely […]

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Best practices Domain monitoring

The Invisible Threat: Understanding Domain Hijacking and Its Consequences

Did you notice when we announced the new domain expiration monitoring feature? Read on to see how it might come in handy to you. Domain names are the equivalent of real estate. But the right domain name can also be a money powerhouse. You probably paid as little as $20 for your domain name, but […]

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Cron job monitoring

Streamline Your Scheduling With the Best 9 Cron Job Monitoring Tools

Welcome to the world of cron job monitoring tools, where you can ensure your scheduled tasks run like clockwork and devices connected to the internet are still up and running! Cron job monitoring sends you alerts if something goes wrong and the tool doesn’t receive a request from your end. They keep you informed with […]

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10 Incident Management Best Practices

Before we dive into the nitty-gritty of incident management, let’s look a bit closer at the actual meaning of ‘incident.’ In the world of IT service management, the official definition for ‘incident’ is an “unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service.” Whether that means a slowdown in […]

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Website monitoring

What Does 99.99% Uptime Really Mean?

Let’s face it, in today’s always-on digital world, a minute without access to a website or service can feel like a lifetime. You’ve probably heard the term “99.99% uptime” before. It’s an important factor for providers (such as hosting or app providers) and key to improving a website’s reliability and a company’s customer satisfaction. But […]

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Website monitoring

Embracing Planned Downtime: Why It’s Crucial For Your Website’s Health

You’ve probably heard plenty of horror stories of unplanned website downtime wreaking havoc on businesses and costing companies thousands or even millions in lost revenue. So if you’re worried, we can’t blame you! Website downtime is usually a nightmare for any company relying on having a steady online presence.  But not all downtime is bad. […]

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Website monitoring

The Biggest Website Outages of All Time

  As much as we all love the internet and everything it offers, we’ve also all experienced that sinking feeling when we try to access our favorite website, only to find it’s down.  If you run your own site, you know that uptime is crucial for your online success — so that sinking feeling in […]

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Website monitoring

The 6 Hidden Costs of Downtime

You likely already know how important it is to have a reliable website for your business — After all, your website is often the first point of contact between your company and potential customers.  And if that website is not accessible or functioning properly, you could be missing out on some key opportunities to grow.  […]