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By James Barnes
Product & Updates
TCP Tests Now in Open Beta
< 1 min read With StatusCake TCP checks you can confirm the uptime of any TCP based service. This includes the likes of game servers such as Minecraft and HLDS, but also other tools such as internal communication platforms or RTP Media data.
James Barnes
November 12, 2012
Product & Updates
At StatusCake We Like Real Website Testing
2 min read Traditionally website monitoring services load browser headers, and in some cases, the body text of your website as well. Whilst this is great for detecting website uptime or downtime it doesn’t give the full picture. What if some of your JavaScript apps are slowing down the speed of your website? What if your image CDN responds with the pictures after 20 seconds?
James Barnes
November 5, 2012
Product & Updates
Custom Defined Status Code Alerts
< 1 min read This means that if you want to get alerted on a redirect when there shouldn’t be one – you can do so. It also means that you can code your software to return status codes depending on certain internal functions failing such as your database. Finally it means some of the lesser known status codes can now also be supported.
James Barnes
October 24, 2012
Engineering
Changes in Testing Method
< 1 min read Until now we have counted response time as the amount of time taken to load the basic content on the page – that is to say the HTML. From today we will be monitoring total load time in a standardized environment. This means not only will we be downloading the HTML from your website but all images, CSS and JavaScript. This method far better simulates the response time an average user would find going to your website.
James Barnes
October 1, 2012
Product & Updates
Embed Public Reporting Now Live!
< 1 min read we’ve rolled out a widget version of the StatusCake public reporting page. With a small embed tag you can now include public reporting on your own website.
James Barnes
September 26, 2012
short-reads
Protect Your Website from Malware and Viruses with SafeAlert from StatusCake.com
2 min read Launched today, SafeAlert from StatusCake.com is a new feature which protects your website against malware and viruses. This new feature is free for anyone with a paid StatusCake website monitoring account.
James Barnes
September 24, 2012
short-reads
StatusCake Launches New Website Monitoring Features
2 min read How status cake has improved its monitoring features to help you keep website downtime to an absolute minimum.
James Barnes
September 24, 2012
100% Uptime! Are Service Level Agreements Really worth the Paper They’re Written on?
2 min read At first glance 100% uptime may seem like an amazing promise. After all as we’ve seen in some of our blog posts, the cost of your website going down can be catastrophic to your revenues as well as your reputation. This week one of North America’s hosting companies announced that it was launching a service
James Barnes
September 23, 2012
Product & Updates
If time is Money, How Much does Downtime Cost?
2 min read The importance of knowing how website downtime can affect you and learning to see how much it can actually cost you.
James Barnes
September 23, 2012
Product & Updates
Website Maintenance – the Right Way
< 1 min read Website maintenance on your terms and at a time of your choosing is absolutely preferable to your website doing down and you having to carry out unplanned maintenance.
James Barnes
September 23, 2012
Product & Updates
Website Monitoring and why it is so important
2 min read minimizing website downtime is important not only to keep your customers happy and loyal and keep your brand intact, but is absolutely critical in ensuring that you keep the search engines happy as well. After all if your search engine rankings suffer you’ll have even less visitors in the first place!
James Barnes
September 23, 2012
Get Notified Via Our Chrome Extension
< 1 min read StatusCake.com already has one of the largest selections of downtime alert notification methods known to the website monitoring industry – but that does not mean we should relax and stop adding great ways to get the message to you that your website is down. Today we are happy to announce the release of our Google
James Barnes
September 15, 2012
Product & Updates
SureAlert – Removing False Alerts
< 1 min read At StatusCake.com we understand that false alarms can diminish how you react to alerts – is it really down this time? – the boy who cried wolf if you will. We’ve recently been looking into the issue of false alerts which can happen (not just on StatusCake but any website monitoring service) and have come up with a solution that eliminates the problem.
James Barnes
August 16, 2012