< 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.