Uptime monitoring blog
Guides and tips on keeping your websites and servers online.
June 19, 2026
What is uptime monitoring?
Uptime monitoring checks whether your website is online and alerts you the moment it goes down. Here is how it works and why it matters.
June 18, 2026
Free vs paid uptime monitoring: what you actually get
Free uptime monitoring covers what most sites need. Here is where the paid tiers genuinely earn their price, and where you are paying for features you will never use.
June 17, 2026
Why websites go down (and how to catch it fast)
Most outages come from a short list of usual suspects: expired certificates, bad deploys, DNS, traffic spikes, and the host itself. Here is what to watch for.
June 15, 2026
How to get notified the moment your site goes down
Refreshing your own site is not a monitoring strategy. Here is how to set up reliable down alerts in a couple of minutes, and how to avoid alert fatigue.
June 12, 2026
What does 99.9% uptime actually mean?
99.9% uptime sounds great until you do the math: it still allows about 43 minutes of downtime a month. Here is what each 'nine' really costs you.