Kristoffer Pihlfelt

Latest articles

• TCP Port Monitoring: Catching the Silent Service Failures HTTP Checks Miss An HTTP check only sees the homepage. TCP monitoring of mail, database and API ports reveals silent service failures before customers do.
• How to Communicate Incidents to Clients Without Scaring Them — or Lying to Them How agencies can build incident communication that reassures clients instead of scaring them — the right information, in the right order, without jargon.
• Autumn Storms and Hosting Power Outages: Why Downtime Isn't Always Your Fault Autumn storms knock out power at hosting providers every year. Learn why multi-country monitoring is essential to tell real outages apart from local network glitches.
• Security headers explained: what they are and why they matter HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options and the rest — the HTTP headers that harden your site against common attacks, what each one does, and how to add them.
• Turn website care into recurring revenue (white-label monitoring) A packaged “Website Care” plan turns irregular hours into predictable monthly revenue. Here's how to build one – and make the margin work.
• Alert fatigue: why your monitoring cries wolf, and how to fix it When every blip becomes a critical alert, the team stops reading – and misses the real outage. Here are the causes of alert fatigue and how to design them out.
• WooCommerce checkout not working but the site is up The homepage returns 200 OK but customers can't pay. Troubleshoot the WooCommerce checkout step by step: purchase flow, gateway, logs, templates and the JS console.
• Uptime monitoring vs synthetic monitoring: what's the difference A 200 OK doesn't mean the site works. Understand the difference between uptime and synthetic monitoring, and when you need which.
• How to find which WordPress plugin is behind a fatal error A fatal error with no obvious cause? Read the stack trace, use the deactivate-half bisect method, and Health Check’s troubleshooting mode to isolate the culprit – without disturbing visitors.
• WordPress cron stopped running: how to notice before anything is missed Scheduled posts don’t publish, backups never run and Action Scheduler jobs stall? Here is how to check DISABLE_WP_CRON, set up real system cron, and fix overdue jobs.
• Intermittent 502 / 503 errors: how to catch what you can't reproduce Errors that vanish the moment you look. Causes of intermittent 502/503, why they're hard to catch by hand, and how logs and continuous checks reveal the pattern.
• Website monitoring without false alarms: how confirmation works Most monitoring tools alert on the first failed request. That is why people turn them off. Here is the method that avoids it.