Website monitoring

Planned downtime sounds responsible until users hit a blank page with no warning. Maintenance windows slip, updates take longer than expected, and trust erodes even when the outage was intentional. How you handle planned downtime often matters more than the downtime itself. This article looks at planned downtime from an operational and communication perspective. Why […]

Website maintenance is easy to postpone until something breaks. Updates pile up, backups fall behind, and small issues quietly turn into outages or security problems. By the time users notice, the fix is rarely quick. This guide approaches website maintenance as an operational routine, not a once-in-a-while task. It’s based on common failure patterns teams […]

Downtime costs more than lost traffic. Revenue drops are obvious, but the quieter damage adds up fast: support overload, SLA penalties, delayed launches, burned engineer hours, and churn that shows up weeks later. By the time finance asks, the real total is already higher than expected. This article breaks down the less visible costs teams […]

Major website outages don’t start as “historic.” They begin with a small failure that compounds, a misconfiguration, a dependency timeout, a change that slips through review. The scale only becomes obvious once users can’t log in, check out, or load anything at all. This article looks at some of the biggest website outages and what […]

“Three nines” uptime sounds reassuring until you do the math. A service can hit 99.9% availability and still be down long enough for users to notice, tickets to pile up, and SLAs to get uncomfortable. The gap between the percentage and the real impact is where confusion starts. This post breaks down what 99.9% uptime […]

A 999 status code usually shows up when a request gets blocked, not when a server crashes. Your site looks fine, but crawlers, bots, or monitoring checks suddenly fail. That mismatch makes troubleshooting slower than it should be. This post explains what HTTP 999 actually means, why it exists outside the official spec, and which […]