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.
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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.
Your SSL certificate expired. How to never let it happen again
Browsers block the whole site, customers assume you were hacked, and the fix takes five minutes – once you notice. Here is how to notice two weeks early.
WordPress site down after a plugin update – how to find the cause
Your site broke right after a plugin update. Here is how to read the error in debug.log, identify the originating plugin from the stack trace, and roll it back – step by step.
DNS changes: the outage nobody sees coming
A wrong A record, a lost MX, a hijacked nameserver. DNS fails quietly and late. Monitoring it is cheap.