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Engineering
Engineering
New Role – Developer / DevOps Engineer
2 min read Application for a DevOps engineer
StatusCake Team
March 19, 2018
Engineering
Lessons Learned From Amazon’s S3 Outage
2 min read Over 150,000 businesses rely on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) for backend cloud-based services for their websites. In March of this year, many of those businesses found out how dependent they were on the cloud when Amazon S3 experienced an outage for almost four hours. Many websites slowed to a crawl and some were unable
StatusCake Team
June 1, 2017
Engineering
Google to Implement Mobile-First Indexing
2 min read Google will implement mobile-first indexing incrementally over the coming months, so you have enough time to get your site ready. Upgrade your site using a responsive design that automatically adjusts to display properly on both desktops and mobile devices. Test your new site thoroughly before launching, and verify that Google’s search bot can index your mobile site.
StatusCake Team
December 7, 2016
Engineering
Lesson Learned From Major Website Outages
2 min read Monitor your website traffic. If it’s steadily growing, be sure you have the capacity to handle future growth. Traffic growth can be unpredictable. A favorable review of your company and its services could cause a spike in traffic, and your site could go down if you’re not equipped to handle it.
StatusCake Team
October 31, 2016
Engineering
New Role – Developer
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.
James Barnes
September 15, 2014
Blog
StatusCake – Monitoring Website Uptime 24/7 365 Days a Year
2 min read If you’re a website owner you’ll know the importance of monitoring site uptime 24/7 365 days a year. StatusCake.com is the only provider of uptime monitoring software that allows you to monitor an unlimited number of websites or URLS completely free of charge with our global network of monitoring centres checking for downtime every 5
James Barnes
February 13, 2013
Engineering
JavaScript Error Logging
< 1 min read Alerting you to your website’s downtime is something that StatusCake.com does a great job of. We’re great at monitoring but that’s not the whole story. As a website owner you want to know much more than just uptime / downtime surely? What about the full user experience – what do visitors to your website see? Are all your scripts running as they should – and if not what are the issues?
James Barnes
November 19, 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