2 min read There are many reasons why websites go down. Your server may become overloaded, or you could have an equipment malfunction. You might experience data center problems, or you might have forgotten to renew your domain name registration. Sometimes your site goes down because of issues connected to scheduled maintenance, or you could be the victim

2 min read We have also begun to pull through much more information regarding each Domain, you’ll now be able to see the full details concerning technical, administrative, and owner contacts from the WHOis on the details page for each domain.

2 min read You’ve spent a lot of time designing your website; you have engaging content that converts visitors into customers and your client base continues to grow. However, there is an issue that should concern you – website downtime. Regardless of whether you’re an international conglomerate or a small business, at some point your website will go

< 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.

2 min read We recently sent out a customer survey and in which we asked users what they thought of every aspect of StatusCake – the single aspect which came in top in terms of marks was reliability and trustworthiness of alerts. It’s the core of our product so it makes sense that we want to get it right and as the survey showed it was clear we were hitting the nail on the head in almost all cases – but there was a niggling 2% of users who rated it under 5/5 and it’s only right we don’t ignore that.

< 1 min read Downtime happens but understanding the cause of downtime helps you react better in the future, which is why we offer annotation on downtime.

3 min read Poland is one of the most requested locations for downtime testing, so we now have a monitoring centre in Warsaw. Find out more here.

< 1 min read We listen to your feedback. Our recent update allows you to custom design your own email alert templates – read how here!

< 1 min read Whether you’re a blogger, a small business or a large corporate organisation your website will go down from time to time. Enter us!

< 1 min read On this page you can read about our new website monitoring centre in Brazil- one of the countries showing the fastest growing number of users.

2 min read Read about how we’ve rolled out the first Italian website monitoring centre in Milan- one of the top start-up destinations for entrepreneurs.

< 1 min read we have, for now at least, shut down our San Jose monitoring centre (it only supported iPv4) and added in a new monitoring centre in Las Vegas.  We now have six monitoring centres in the United States, all save for our second server in New York are fully iPv6 supported. Details of their IPs, so that you can white-list them, are provided below. You’ll find details of all our monitoring centers in the Knowledge Base.

< 1 min read StatusCake’s UK downtime monitoring is free to all users, allowing you to monitor an unlimited number of websites or tests with your site being checked for downtime every 5 minutes.  And if you want more frequent downtime checks or added features – such as malware checking, real user monitoring or content matching then  sign-up for one of our paid accounts.

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?

2 min read The importance of knowing how website downtime can affect you and learning to see how much it can actually cost you.

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!