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By Colin Bartlett
Before we dive into the best StatusHub alternatives, let’s quickly recap the tool’s capabilities. In short, StatusHub is an IT incident communication tool. As indicated by its name, StatusHub is focused on creating and managing status pages. Users get to leverage their connected hub of status pages to communicate system statuses, incidents, and maintenance updates to different audiences, customers, and stakeholders.
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By Colin Bartlett
In 2023, K-12 schools are becoming more dependent on technology than ever before to enhance students’ learning experiences. The use of devices in teaching has seen a significant rise. For example, 42% of teachers used technology daily in 2016, but in 2019 this number rose to 67%. Given this surge in tech usage, IT administrators in K-12 schools face the challenge of managing these assets and providing support.
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By Colin Bartlett
For SaaS companies and cloud vendors, a status page isn’t just a tool — it’s a testament to their commitment to users. But with numerous status page providers in the market, which ones are the top SaaS companies gravitating towards? It comes as no surprise that the most popular status page provider in 2023 is Statuspage.io offered by Atlassian. We expected it at StatusGator when we began our analysis. However, our curiosity didn’t stop there.
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By Colin Bartlett
One to One Plus is a cloud-based, all-in-one software solution, tailored specifically to K-12 institutions. They provide a comprehensive suite of integrated IT asset management (ITAM), help desk software, and inventory management. As they describe on their website, they are “designed for K-12, built by K-12,” and appear to have been started by tech directors working in K12.
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By Colin Bartlett
At StatusGator, we understand the critical importance of providing reliable monitoring services to our valued customers. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by the recent issue affecting the monitoring of Microsoft Teams, which occurred from September 27, 2023, at 04:56 UTC to September 28, 2023, at 11:11 UTC. We deeply appreciate your patience and understanding as we addressed this incident and share our findings and actions taken to prevent future occurrences.
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By Colin Bartlett
We are thrilled to announce that StatusGator is now officially Climate Neutral Certified. This achievement marks a significant milestone in our journey towards a more sustainable and environmentally-conscious future.
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By Colin Bartlett
We’ve heard your feedback and it’s here: Status page SSO is now available on our Enterprise plan. Status Page Single Sign-On (SSO) empowers StatusGator customers to safeguard their status pages through a seamless Single Sign-On experience. You can now restrict access to your status page to only your team, employees, or users who have SSO access through your organization’s identity provider.
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By Colin Bartlett
Status pages are a transparent and effective way to inform users of any downtime or incidents disrupting the company’s service. Without a status page, users are left in the dark, and support tickets pile up, affecting your relationship with them and their trust. That’s why having a status page is essential for a business in 2023.
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By Colin Bartlett
AWS users usually assume that Northern Virginia, also referred to as US East (N. Virginia) and us-east-1, is the least reliable in terms of uptime. We analyzed AWS outage history in 2022 across regions to see if N. Virginia, indeed, had the most downtime. Then we reviewed and proved some of the theories as to why N. Virginia has the most outages.
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By Colin Bartlett
To understand the reliability of the popular learning management systems (LMS), we analyzed incident and outage reports from the official status pages for Seesaw, Blackboard, Canvas by Instructure, PowerSchool, Nearpod, and Google Classroom over a one-year period.
- November 2023 (3)
- October 2023 (1)
- September 2023 (2)
- August 2023 (2)
- May 2023 (3)
- March 2023 (3)
- February 2023 (1)
- January 2023 (3)
- December 2022 (1)
- October 2022 (1)
- September 2022 (1)
- August 2022 (1)
- July 2022 (1)
- June 2022 (1)
- May 2022 (2)
- April 2022 (6)
- March 2022 (3)
- January 2022 (4)
- December 2021 (2)
- September 2021 (3)
- August 2021 (1)
- February 2021 (1)
- September 2020 (2)
- August 2020 (1)
- July 2020 (1)
- June 2020 (2)
- May 2020 (1)
- April 2020 (4)
- March 2020 (3)
- February 2020 (2)
- January 2020 (1)
- December 2019 (2)
- November 2019 (1)
- May 2019 (1)
- March 2019 (1)
- October 2018 (1)
- August 2018 (2)
- May 2018 (1)
- March 2017 (1)
- December 2016 (1)
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