< 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.

< 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.

< 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.

< 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.

< 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.