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How to Set Up Slack Alerts for Website Downtime

Get Slack notifications the moment your website or API goes down. Step-by-step guide to downtime alerts in Slack.

January 15, 2026 6 min read
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Website Down? How to Check If Your Site Is Down (And Fix It)

Is your website down? Learn how to check if your site is really down, rule out local issues, and fix common causes of downtime.

January 15, 2026 6 min read
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Uptime SLA Explained: 99.9% vs 99.99% Availability

What does 99.9% uptime really mean? Compare SLA tiers, downtime minutes per year, and choose the right availability target.

January 12, 2026 5 min read
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WordPress Uptime Monitoring: Keep Your Site Always Online

Monitor your WordPress site for downtime, slow performance, and plugin issues. A practical guide to uptime monitoring for WP.

January 12, 2026 6 min read
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SEO Cloaking Detection: Protect Your Website from Hidden Threats

Learn what SEO cloaking is, why hackers use it, and how to detect when your website shows different content to search engines versus regular visitors.

January 11, 2026 7 min read
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Webhook Monitoring: Ensure Your Integrations Never Fail

Learn how to monitor webhooks and catch failed deliveries before they break your integrations. A practical guide for developers.

January 11, 2026 9 min read
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Cron Job Monitoring: Never Miss a Failed Background Task

Learn how to monitor cron jobs and background tasks. Catch silent failures before they cause data loss or angry customers.

January 10, 2026 8 min read
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Website Downtime Cost Calculator: What Outages Cost

Calculate the true cost of website downtime for your business. Use our formula to understand why uptime monitoring pays for itself.

January 10, 2026 7 min read
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Third-Party Dependency Monitoring: Watching What You Don't Control

Your uptime depends on services you don't control — payment processors, CDNs, auth providers, and cloud platforms. Learn how to monitor third-party dependencies before they take you down.

January 2, 2026 13 min read
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Multi-Region Monitoring: Why Checking From One Location Isn't Enough

Your site might be online in New York but down in Tokyo. Learn why multi-region monitoring catches outages that single-location checks miss — and how to set it up properly.

December 29, 2025 13 min read
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Calculate Website Uptime: Why 99.9% Isn't Enough

Learn to calculate website uptime, understand SLA percentages, and discover why that impressive 99.9% uptime guarantee still means hours of downtime every year.

December 27, 2025 10 min read
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API Uptime Monitoring & Health Checks Guide

Your API is the backbone of modern applications. Learn how to monitor API endpoints, set up health checks, and catch failures before your users do.

December 25, 2025 10 min read
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Content Change Detection: Get Alerted When It Matters

Learn what content change detection is, how it works, and how to monitor webpages for meaningful updates—without alert noise.

December 19, 2025 7 min read
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Maintenance Windows: Deploy Without Alert Storms

Learn how to plan, communicate, and run maintenance windows without alert noise—plus a practical checklist, status page tips, and common pitfalls to avoid.

December 16, 2025 6 min read
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On-Call Without Burnout: Effective Incident Response

On-call doesn't have to be chaos. Build a sustainable rotation with clear severities, actionable alerts, and escalation paths.

December 13, 2025 5 min read
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Alert Fatigue: Notifications That Get Acted On

Too many alerts means no alerts. Learn how to configure monitoring notifications that your team will actually respond to — without missing critical issues.

December 11, 2025 11 min read
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DNS Monitoring: Foundation of Website Reliability

Your site can't load if DNS fails. Learn why DNS monitoring catches issues other tools miss — and prevents the outages nobody sees coming.

December 10, 2025 10 min read
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Website Monitoring for E-commerce: Every Second Counts

E-commerce sites lose $5,600 per minute of downtime. Learn which pages to monitor and how to protect revenue during peak sales.

December 10, 2025 10 min read
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1-Minute vs 5-Minute Monitoring Check Intervals

Should you check every minute or every 5 minutes? Learn how to choose the right monitoring interval for your website — and when faster checks actually matter.

December 8, 2025 6 min read
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Incident Post-Mortem Guide: Prevent Future Outages

Learn how to write effective incident post-mortems that prevent repeat failures. Includes a free template and real-world examples from engineering teams.

December 7, 2025 8 min read
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Website Monitoring Checklist: Beyond Just Uptime

Complete checklist of what to monitor on your website — from SSL certificates to API endpoints. Catch issues before users do.

December 6, 2025 7 min read
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Hidden Cost of Slow Websites: Response Time Monitoring

Your site might be 'up' but still losing customers. Learn why response time monitoring matters and how slow performance kills conversions.

December 5, 2025 7 min read
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Build a Status Page That Builds Customer Trust

Create public status pages that build customer trust. Learn what to include, what to avoid, and how to communicate during outages.

December 4, 2025 6 min read
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SSL Certificate Expiration: The Preventable Outage

Expired SSL certificates cause thousands of outages yearly — and they're 100% preventable. Learn how to monitor certificates effectively.

December 4, 2025 7 min read
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Why Every SaaS Needs Uptime Monitoring (Day 1)

A practical guide for new SaaS founders on why uptime monitoring matters from launch day — and how to set it up in minutes.

December 3, 2025 4 min read

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