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4 min read Whether you’ve owned, managed, or worked for a SaaS start-up you’ll know there are some decisions that are easy to take. These are the no-brainers that are determined within seconds. As far as you can tell there are no downsides from going full-steam ahead at the instant push of a button. And then there are

3 min read They say you always remember your first love. As a founder pushing your product live for the very first time you also remember those first customers. There is quite simply nothing like it. Having built the product, and hoisted it into the world-wide-web, you sit back and you wait. You’re never quite sure whether anyone

3 min read There is a fine art to running an online business, but there is an even finer line between success and failure. Let’s imagine a scenario, launching an average online store. You’ll have to remember the SEO, the usability, getting across the right branding… so much to remember… It’s okay because although you’ve spent night after

< 1 min read With our newest feature “Push Monitoring” we are allowing you to enable reverse monitoring which will give you a whole new angle on the experience. Instead of us contacting your server at certain intervals, you can now configure a push to us. Simply log in to your StatusCake account to start using this impressive function

< 1 min read Here you can set up windows by entering the desired start time and duration, the time zone used will match the one selected in the user details section of the account.

< 1 min read Recently we released a brand new feature on StatusCake called Blacklist Monitoring which our customers can use to check if their website has been added to various internet blacklists which many users incorporate into their browsing experience to avoid spam and malware. we have added 15 of the biggest lists to our selection to start,

< 1 min read At StatusCake.com we make sure that you can see at a glance that your SSL certificate is valid, and when your certificate comes up for renewal we’ll send you a reminder a week before it expires. Well send out a reminder, along with any certificate errors we discover, to the Contact Group you’ve got set-up for that website

< 1 min read If you’re looking for an alternative to Pingability then StatusCake is the perfect website monitoring service for you. StatusCake’s free uptime monitoring is feature-packed and easy-to-use. Unlike Pingability which will only check your website’s uptime every hour, StatusCake ensures you’re on top of downtime by checking your website’s availability every 5 minutes. And unlike Pingability,

< 1 min read StatusCake is the best and free alternative to downforeveryoneorjustme. Not only can it tell you when you login whether your website is up or down – and you can use StatusCake’s tools to check uptime and performance from a number of locations around the world, it will also alert you the moment there’s an issue with your site.

2 min read At StatusCake free website monitoring doesn’t mean waiting an age for your website to be checked. We offer 5 minute monitoring on your websites – however many websites you’ve got!

2 min read How does the monitor, monitor the monitor? No it’s not a tongue twister, but rather a question we faced when StatusCake started to be joined by big companies such as the BBC, NHS, EA to name but a few. What do we do? StatusCake now monitors over 250,000 websites and has tens of thousands of

< 1 min read At StatusCake there’s more to website monitoring that just sending alerts when your website goes down. Within your StatusCake account you have full access to all the data you need to gauge the performance of your website.

2 min read As a developer you will be responsible, initially, for assisting with technical customer support. This grounding will help you understand how we work as a team, and give you the best possible understanding of our product, code base and customers. The scope of the role will increase once the right candidate has a good knowledge of this.

2 min read Posted: September 2014 Job Role: Customer Relations Agent (North America) Job Type: Contract – Full Time / Part Time Location: Remote Working Purpose of the Role & Responsibilities: We are looking for a self-motivated individual with customer services expertise to come and work with the StatusCake.com team. Customer relations is a full-time job on a

2 min read Industry giants like Microsoft can send data at exactly the same speed as a smaller company like StatusCake. This means despite StatusCake not having anywhere near the budget of Microsoft , on a purely technological basis at least, it’s a level playing field.

2 min read We are looking for a self-motivated individual with customer services expertise to come and work with the StatusCake team.

3 min read Our StatusCake product has over 85,000 customers. We’re passionate about ensuring that the customer experience remains as good today as that first day when we launched. When we had more StatusCake staff than customers! That’s quite a challenge!

2 min read We have continued to roll out support for great 3rd party apps and today we are happy to announce StatusCake has put live support for the up and coming real time communication platform – Slack. Slack is an IRC like environment for your team to be able to communicate with each other, we have seen

2 min read At StatusCake we have always been keenly aware that we can’t do everything; and we’re not exactly fans of reinventing the wheel! That’s why from day one we’ve always worked with selected 3rd party partners to give you more power, be it with mobile notifications using the power of Pushover or advanced alert routing with PagerDuty.

< 1 min read StatusCake has itself grown, and we’ve been asked more-and-more to provide a more bespoke service for some of our larger customers, such as blue chip organisations and government departments.

< 1 min read At StatusCake we’ve always prided ourselves on not only have great premium product, but a free product as well that is unlimited and fully supported. There are times however when we need to review how our product is used, and ensure that a small number of free users aren’t having a detrimental effect on the

< 1 min read For those users manually updating each of your tests every time you want to change your preferences – perhaps add in a new monitoring location (we have added 50 new servers in recent weeks!), or change the amount of confirmation servers used before alerting you, can become a laborious task.

< 1 min read We do all this at the same time as your normal test alerts would be sent so there is absolutely no delay to uptime alerts if you’re site is working as intended and if it’s likely to go down again after a few seconds our test agents will simply wait for the service to be truly up

< 1 min read Facebook faces downtime unexpectedly here we explain and give an update of the this situation.
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