Website monitoring

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 […]

Website downtime rarely comes from a single, dramatic failure. More often it’s a small change that cascades: a bad deploy, an expired certificate, a resource limit quietly hit, or a dependency that stops responding. The result is the same, users see errors, and teams scramble for answers. This article breaks down the most common causes […]

Open source monitoring tools promise control and flexibility, but the tradeoffs show up fast. Setup takes longer than expected, alerts need tuning, and ownership shifts to your team the moment something breaks at three a.m. Picking the wrong tool can slow response instead of improving it. This article reviews widely used open source monitoring options […]

Did you like our previous blog about domain hijacking? Let’s see if you know all the HTTP codes now.  Decoding HTTP status codes HTTP status codes, typically a sequence of three numbers, are a reply from the server in response to a request made by a web browser. A common example many might recognize is […]