When you run a small business, your site serves the same function as your business card - it provides essential information about what you do and who you are. It also could be the first point of contact with potential new customers, so it is crucial you keep your site up to date and give new visitors a good impression. Here are five tips that you should keep in mind to ensure that you present yourself at your best.

Uptime is great, but knowing that the APIs you and your customers rely on are functioning and performing well is a great burden off your shoulders. Our new Multi-step API Monitor gives you all the control you need to test for uptime, performance, and function of your API. Using our new Multi-step API Monitor, you can test everything from redirects and authentication, to sequenced API calls that require the reuse of variables pulled from the previous API responses.

We are pleased to announce we have added the ability to create incidents which affect multiple services. This is an extremely important and long awaited enhancement which forms part of a large rework of our internal systems in StatusHub.

A short interview where Ryan Glass, lead developer on Downtime Monkey and director of Big Toe Web Design, talks about taking Downtime Monkey from idea to reality.

Is it just for me, or for everyone else too? Sometimes you might be wondering if everyone cannot load your website, or is it just you. Here are some easy steps to find out if your site is unavailable for everyone.

Fifteen years ago nobody complained about shipping features too often. Today some teams have a different problem. New features are rolling out from the software teams faster than they and the rest of their company can keep up.

We recently shipped version 3.2 of the honeybadger Ruby Gem, which includes a new feature to make it easier to add context to your error reports.

The Spiceworks browser extension, which keeps you connected to Spiceworks right from your Chrome browser, now let’s you see Cloud Help Desk ticket alerts and open tickets, even if you don’t have your Cloud Help Desk open!

With the proper auditing enabled (Logon/Logoff – Logon (Failure)) and EventSentry installed however, we can permanently block remote users / hosts who attempt to log on too many times with a wrong password. Setting this up is surprisingly simple.

Though re:Invent technically runs for another day, the fourth day is traditionally the final day in terms of large announcements — this certainly rings true for this year as well, with several significant announcements from Amazon and associates.