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You’ll remember that SSL 3.0 is no longer secure since October 2014 with the discovery of Poodle attack. And, it is also disabled by default on all popular browsers. On the other hand, there are still a small number of websites that support SSL 3.0 (which must definitely be disabled). Starting tomorrow (6 April 2016), we’ll also be […]

We all want our websites/servers to be “up” all the time and take multiple actions to increase uptime. Yet, not all sites/servers are built for 100% uptime. Some have various tasks that cause downtime like: backups batch jobs restarts upgrades etc. Uptime Robot now has a new feature (for the Pro Plan) to handle such one-time or […]

If you are a business or freelancer with lots of monitors where getting the up/down notifications is not enough and want to keep an eye on the snapshot of the statuses of all monitors regularly, here is a new feature: TV Mode It is simply a focused view of the dashboard where only: the number of […]

In addition to the IPs being currently used, we’ll be starting to use (effective by 2015-10-12) a set of new IPs parallel to the new machines to be joined to the system. Here they are: IP Block: 69.162.124.224/28 Or, the IPs that will be used: 69.162.124.226 – engine5.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.227 – engine6.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.228 – engine7.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.229 – engine8.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.230 – engine9.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.231 – […]

For any user willing to customize the notifications or integrate them into their own apps (or 3rd party apps), web-hook alert contacts is one of the best options. Yet, it was only supporting GET requests and POST support was frequently requested. And, here it comes. It is now possible to receive the web-hook requests as POST […]

We have added few new features to the API which may look tiny, yet, can be handy for anyone integrating with the API. Here they are Search This (search) is a new parameter for the getMonitors method for filtering the responses with a given keyword (that will be searched in the monitorURL and monitorFriendlyName). Getting […]