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  • Top 8 Free Status Page Tools & Services for 2024

    Status pages have become an essential tool for online businesses, offering a streamlined way to communicate incidents or downtime, build user trust, and eliminate the need for mass email notifications. To help you get started, we have put together a list of the top 9 free status page tools and services. These are essential not […]

  • Best Blockchain Monitoring Practices for 2024

    If you’re running a validator node in blockchain networks that use proof-of-stake (PoS) or similar consensus mechanism, even a downtime of just a few minutes can mean a significant loss of earnings.  As a responsible validator, it’s your main responsibility to maintain the highest uptime of your node possible to ensure that: You don’t get […]

  • Recent Outage of Meta and Google Ads: How to Prevent Potential Loses

    On Tuesday, March 5th, Facebook, Instagram and Google Ads experienced widespread outages that lasted for nearly two hours, affecting thousands of users worldwide. More than 550,000 reports poured in from Facebook users, and Instagram received 92,000 similar complaints, as reported by Reuters. As Meta stated on their newest platform, Threads: ”Earlier today, a technical issue […]

  • SSL Certificate Errors: A comprehensive guide

    SSL certificates create an encrypted connection between a web server and a user’s browser. This encryption ensures that any data transmitted remains private and secure, making it essential for protecting sensitive information like passwords, credit card numbers, and personal details.  However, when there’s an issue with the SSL certificate, users can encounter errors that not […]

  • What Is Ping Monitoring

    Ping monitoring is an essential technique in network management used to assess the health and performance of a network by verifying the availability of servers and other network devices. It employs the ‘ping’ command, a basic Internet tool that tests connectivity between two networked devices.  The process involves sending ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) echo […]

  • 8 Software Engineering Newsletters for Maximum Learning

    The tech world is anything but static, and staying up to date on the newest developments is an important part of every software developer’s technique for keeping their knowledge and skills competitive. But, it can be both exhausting and time-consuming to do all of this research and reading yourself. If only there was a way […]

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