Expert insights on website monitoring, security best practices, and keeping your services online.
Why an API changes what monitoring can do, what to look for, and the new layer: MCP, which lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT query your monitoring in plain language.
How to find genuinely affordable uptime monitoring — the pricing models that stay cheap, the hidden costs that make "cheap" expensive, and how the budget options really compare.
Looking for a Pingdom alternative? Why teams switch, the criteria that actually decide the right tool, and how the main alternatives compare for free trackers, dev platforms and agencies.
Outgrowing UptimeRobot? Why teams move on, the criteria that actually matter, and how the main alternatives compare across free trackers, developer platforms and agency tools.
Skip the rankings. What a status page is really for, the criteria that decide the right tool, the three categories of status page software, and what to test before you commit.
Shopify being up does not mean your store is working. Why Shopify stores still go down, what to actually monitor beyond the homepage, and how to catch problems before they cost sales.
Skip the cookie-cutter rankings. The criteria and categories that actually decide the best uptime monitoring tool for you, from free trackers to agency platforms, plus how the popular names compare.
What free uptime monitoring actually covers, where free plans draw the line, how to set up solid monitoring without paying, and when upgrading finally earns its keep.
A practical, step-by-step guide to setting up website uptime monitoring: what to monitor, how often to check, where to check from, alerts that don't cry wolf, and how to prove uptime.
The criteria that actually matter when an agency picks a monitoring tool: multi-client organization, alert routing, white-label branding, reporting, check types and a pricing model that scales.
A repeatable, twenty-minute checklist for adding every new client to monitoring: what to gather, which monitors to add, naming and tagging, alert routing, status pages and the email that proves your value.
Turn monitoring from an invisible cost into a branded, billable service: branded status pages on custom domains, white-labeled client reports, on-brand alerting, and the economics of reselling it.
A practical guide to API monitoring: what to check beyond a 200, how to assert JSON payloads, alerting that doesn't cry wolf, and when synthetic flows beat single endpoints.
What 99%, 99.9%, 99.99% and 99.999% uptime actually translate to in real downtime, plus how SLAs are calculated and what's realistic to promise clients.
Synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring (RUM) sound similar but answer different questions. What each one does, where each one fails, and which you need first.
Everything you need to know about uptime monitoring in 2026: the five check types, KPIs that matter, alert strategies that don't cry wolf, and how to pick the right tool.
Why single-region monitoring misses real outages, how multi-region checks catch regional failures, and what to look for in a global uptime tool.
A clear breakdown of website monitoring pricing models, what drives cost, sample budgets for 5, 50, and 500 sites, and when paid plans pay for themselves.
Learn how to monitor dozens or hundreds of websites from a single dashboard with organized alerts, team permissions, and per-client status pages.
10 actionable strategies to reduce website downtime, from external monitoring and DNS redundancy to staging environments and incident runbooks.
A step-by-step guide to building website care plans with tiered pricing, monitoring, reporting, and strategies that turn maintenance into recurring revenue.
A practical guide to WordPress uptime monitoring: why WP sites go down, what to monitor, and how to set up external checks that catch real problems.
A non-technical, step-by-step guide to diagnosing why your website is down, what to do right now, and how to stop it being a surprise next time.
A practical monitoring playbook for freelance web developers: minimum viable stack, alert triage, a 30-minute setup, and how to charge for uptime.
Learn how to define uptime guarantees, set realistic targets, and use monitoring data to back up your SLA commitments to clients.
Learn how to calculate the true cost of website downtime, including hidden costs like SEO damage, lost trust, and wasted ad spend.
A complete guide to managing client sites with centralized monitoring, smart alerting, status pages, and uptime reports.
Set up a status page that builds trust, reduces support tickets, and keeps clients informed during incidents.
Discover what happens when SSL certificates expire and how automated monitoring prevents certificate-related outages.
Everything you need to know about uptime monitoring: how it works, why check intervals matter, and how to set it up in 60 seconds.
Learn how DNS monitoring works, what records to watch, and how to protect your domain from hijacking and unauthorized changes.
A practical guide to the incident lifecycle, escalation workflows, and reducing mean time to resolution for web teams.
Seven practical best practices for agencies, from multi-region checks to CI/CD integration and smart alerting strategies.
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