< 1 min read Decide when & how you’re alerted: via email, SMS Twitter and push notifications for iOS & Android devices. It’s up to you to decide!

< 1 min read Whether you have a paid or free account, you can receive alerts for 32 status codes & choose exactly which codes you’re alerted for.

< 1 min read Content Matching is easy and on all paid website monitoring accounts. There’s plenty you can do with StatusCake Content Matching. See more.

< 1 min read Although both StatusCake.com and Monitor.us allow you to monitor an unlimited number of websites, the fair-use policy imposed by Monitor.us is less than 50*.  At StatusCake we don’t care whether you’ve got 50 or 100 or more – you’ll still be able to enjoy free website monitoring with us.

2 min read It’s now been four days since we launched our February StatusCake customer survey and we hope you’ve started to see some of the great changes as a direct result of your feedback.

< 1 min read Even if your site isn’t down you’re not going to be able understand how well it’s performing if your relying on website monitoring from thousands of miles away. When you use our Auckland test location you can get an accurate representation of how quickly your website loads for other New Zealanders.

< 1 min read For anyone on a StatusCake paid website monitoring plan we now offer a malware detection service. Our advanced malware checking software scans your website at the same time as checking for downtime. So if you’ve set your website to be scanned for downtime every 30 seconds, we’ll also check your website for malware every 30 seconds as well.

< 1 min read tatusCake provides both website monitoring, allowing you to be alerted to website downtime, but also has a suite of website performance tools where you can check the page load time of your web site.

< 1 min read As a website owner you want to be the first to know when your website is down – you don’t want to find out from angry customers.  But how do you know if your website is down or not?  That’s where a website monitoring service comes in. Such a service will alert you when your website is loading slowly, or worst still it’s gone down.

2 min read If you’re a website owner or web-master looking for web site monitoring, then you may have already taken a look at Alertra.com.  So how does this compare to StatusCake’s uptime monitoring service? Quite simply, StatusCake is the best alternative to Alertra.com.  Firstly if you’re looking for a free website monitoring service then Alertra won’t work

2 min read StatusCake believes in offering as many features as possible in their website monitoring service for free – which is why you can carry out not only http tests, but also TCP, SSH and Ping/li>. 

2 min read At StatusCake we know there are a variety of reasons why some customer’s will always want to use a free uptime monitoring tool.  That’s why our free community plan allows you to monitor up to 10 websites on a 5 minute check rate absolutely free of charge – that’s free forever.  So if you’re currently paying for Host-Tracker’s “Webmaster Plan” you could come across to StatusCake for absolutely nothing.  You can sign-up for a StatusCake free plan here.

2 min read TrafficCake was created after the StatusCake team carried out a media buying campaign using a well-know advertising network and found that over 30% of the traffic delivered to our landing page was fraudulent.

< 1 min read It is with continuing in the same vein of that we are happy to announce we are now integrated with Zapier, a tool which allows you to get alerted and / or log downtime over hundreds of services. If you want to be alerted when your site goes down via Google Talk – with Zapier you can. If you want to log when a new site is added to your StatusCake account – with Zapier you can.

< 1 min read Salt Lake City becomes the first of our website monitoring center to be IPv6 supported; though during the next weeks and months we hope to have IPv6 across our entire monitoring network.