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Recurring revenue streams bring stability to any business. For MSPs, that stability can be an essential foundation for service innovation and pursuing growth. Offering subscription-based managed services is an obvious way to get recurring revenue in place. Collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom are prime candidates for subscriptions since businesses depend on them every day, at all levels of the organization, to be productive and profitable.

In a multi-cloud environment, each cloud platform brings its unique tech stack to record events, manage services, set up configurations, manage user access and permissions, etc. While this allows you to leverage the best-of-breed services from different cloud vendors, the complexity of this setup makes it challenging to detect and respond to anomalies across clouds in real-time.

As Australian government agencies progress in their digital transformation journeys, how can IT leaders innovate without compromising compliance, sovereignty, or operational stability? This blog was originally published on PublicSectorNetwork.com.au on 11th June 2025 and republished with permission.

We’re excited to announce the official release of the UptimeRobot Terraform provider, a feature that many of you have been requesting. Starting today, you can manage your UptimeRobot resources, including monitors, alerting integrations, maintenance windows, and public status pages, directly in your Terraform configuration. Let’s take a closer look.

Kubernetes orchestration isn’t getting any simpler. Today, teams are pushing into AI/ML, edge computing, and multi-cloud automation. And with that, you may be looking beyond Rancher. This guide walks you through today’s top Rancher alternatives, from enterprise-grade platforms like OpenShift to leaner developer-first tools like Lens and Portainer. With this intel, you can then decide which one fits your evolving stack, budget, and business goals.

If your container shows Status: unhealthy, Docker's health check is failing. The container is still running, but something inside, usually your app, isn’t responding as expected. This doesn’t always mean a crash. It just means Docker can’t verify the app is working. Here’s how to debug the issue and restore the container to a healthy state.

Ask banking leaders if their systems are healthy, and most respond confidently: “Yes, everything’s up.” But track a transaction closely, and reality shifts. A high-value payment retries repeatedly before settling. A KYC process silently times out, losing a verified customer. Compliance checks complete using stale data. No visible outages. Yet silent failures accumulate, becoming costly and increasingly damaging. This is downtime that dashboards never flag.