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By Max Rozen
Over October and November I focused on adding new features to Status Pages and making it easier to iterate on new features, as well as fixing bugs across all of OnlineOrNot.
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By Max Rozen
If you don't know what a "cron job" is or how the cron job expression syntax works (and at this point are too afraid to ask), you're in the right place. In this article, we'll dive into what is a cron job, how they work, and the details that often get overlooked, like cron job schedule syntax and common cron job errors.
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By Max Rozen
Coming back from August holidays, I felt the need to take a hard look at what OnlineOrNot does, and keep improving it.
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By Max Rozen
Imagine you're sitting in your office, and you start noticing emails coming in asking if you'd like to buy your domain. "Huh, that's weird, I already own that domain" you think to yourself. A few more emails come in, and they're getting past the spam filter, so you decide to double check your domain manager. Doubt starts creeping into your mind, you start panicking, and you frantically scroll down to where the domain should be, and... It's gone.
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By Max Rozen
Ever wonder how to check if a website is still working, without having to load up the website and manually check every few minutes? In this article, we'll go over the various ways to check if a website is online.
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By Max Rozen
In case you missed it, AWS experienced an outage or "elevated error rates" on their AWS Lambda APIs in the us-east-1 region between 18:52 UTC and 20:15 UTC on June 13, 2023. If this sounds familiar, it's because it's almost a replay of what happened on December 7, 2021, although that outage was significantly more severe and took longer to restore.
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By Max Rozen
A fairly common claim among website uptime monitoring services is that downtime costs $5600 per minute. Chances are, you'll have one of two reactions to this claim: The reality of what downtime costs your business lies somewhere in between. As a company that runs 3.6 million uptime checks per week, we have a bit of insight into the cost of downtime, so if you're curious - read on.
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By Max Rozen
It's a warm afternoon here in Toulouse, I feel like it's as good a time as any to update folks about what's new in OnlineOrNot.
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By Max Rozen
You're browsing your favorite website, clicking around, when suddenly, you're rudely interrupted by a white screen, proclaiming: (I don't mean to pick on Varnish cache here, It's just a screenshot I had handy) As a developer, my eyes scan error messages like these for numbers - in this case, the "503" - indicating that the error isn't my fault, and I can move on with my life.
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By Max Rozen
Last Saturday, our API went down. Not even a funny error message or slightly slower responses either, it just completely vanished off the internet for 18 minutes. I'm not normally one to point fingers at my hosting provider when things go wrong (since ultimately, I chose to use them, so it's my problem to fix), but when fly.io publicly posts on their forums about their reliability issues, I may as well link to them.
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OnlineOrNot monitors your website, letting you know instantly if anything goes wrong.
OnlineOrNot is an website monitoring service. In particular, it monitors whether your site is online, or not (hence the name). It allows you to continuously monitor any website or API server. It notifies you instantly in the case of any problems - whether that's a timeout, 4xx error, or 5xx error.
Monitor With Confidence:
- Configurable Alerts: You don't want alerts for sites that aren't really down for everyone. Configure retries, and how many minutes of downtime to wait before sending an alert.
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- Alerts where you need them: Get notified when your site goes down, and when it comes back via Email and Slack. Alerts via SMS and phone call coming soon!
- Text Search: Want to detect when your page stops showing certain text? OnlineOrNot can search your page for text to catch error pages that don't send error codes.
- Global Monitoring: Monitor from any one of 10 major cities around the world. Check out our supported regions.
- Bring the whole team: Monitoring is your whole team's job, not the responsibility of just one person. Bring your whole team at no extra cost.
Everything you need to be sure that your website is running smoothly.