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At StatusCake we have community of users from all over the world – and an ever growing number from Italy. That’s why today we’ve rolled out the first Italian website monitoring centre in Milan.
Milan is already becoming one of the start-up destinations in the world for online businesses. Thousands of entrepreneurs, coders, engineers and financers are moving to the city – in part helped by a “start-up” bill passed by the Italian Government in December of last year.
This pool of highly skilled talent from all over the world – Milan has one of the highest levels of overseas consultants after New York – means that some of the best online businesses are being born in the region.
And just as important as that pool of talent is infrastructure. At the heart of Milan and its success in being the breeding ground of new start-ups is the backbone of industry, multi-national companies, the stock exchange, major banks as well as angel investment networks, seed funds and VCs.
Co-working spaces such as Talent Garden have become hubs for start-ups such as Tannico, Vivocha, Nuvolab, Yoodeal and dozens more. And these start-ups are not just making waves on their own doorstep. Many of them are already expanding into Europe and internationally – some such as Neptuny are finding exits in the US/UK. This in turn is attracting overseas companies to open offices in Milan – 99Designs and AirBnB have taken the step into the Italian market.
So if you’re a website based in Italy, or you many of your customers come from there, it’s important that your website is up and performing properly for your new visitors and existing customers. With StatusCake.com’s website monitoring you can select our Milan monitoring centre – your website will be checked for downtime from Italy and not another part of the world. You can also use our free real user monitoring to see just how visitors from Italy (or indeed any other country) find the user experience – and how this can differ depending on the browser or device they’re using.
The ability to select the Milan monitoring centre is available to all those on a paid website monitoring plan. Paid plan customers also get the advantage of free SMS alert credits, premium features, more regular downtime checks and much, much more.
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