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Welcome to the new StatusCake blog. You may be confused by thinking we already had a blog so why have we now relaunched it? Previously our blog included all sorts of things including StatusCake updates, industry posts and generally was a mixed mismatched affair. From today all the StatusCake news and updates will be contained within our “News” section of the website and this blog will take on a new role as being a place for our team to write about the technology world around them.
We hope to write at least a post a day about whatever is on our mind; this can be anything from some great resources for creative web designers all the way through to our view on a new startup company.
Our blog will not be filtered through a company filter so to speak and the opinions posted will be that of the poster – this means while you may disagree with some points we hope you understand that it doesn’t reflect a company wide opinion. We also plan to have some guest posts so if you got a message you want to get out there then please do contact us.
It is very much our hope that by creating this blog we will be able to write some genuinely helpful and interesting posts – and hey even give you a few laughs here and there! Please do feel free to get engaged within the comments of the posts and as always we’ll be listening to feedback about this new area of the site.
Finally if you’re worried that we’re going to be spending time on writing the blog posts and not enough of time on the application itself then fear not – posts will be written in the free time that we have. So without further-ado let me once again welcome you to the new StatusCake Blog
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4 min read On 13th August 2026, a storm knocked out cooling at RadiusDC’s Phoenix data centre, which hosted essential Namecheap operations. To protect hardware from thermal damage, Namecheap took services offline while temporary chillers were brought in. The incident and recovery ran for roughly 30 hours, with Namecheap’s own site unreachable for about 11 hours 42 minutes
3 min read On Wednesday 19 August, Monzo had an outage. DownDetector logged more than 3,000 reports by midday. Monzo’s own statement was direct about what it did next: it activated Monzo Stand-in, its fully independent backup bank, while it investigated an issue affecting customers. By the end of the day, Monzo said the issue was resolved and
3 min read GitHub’s incident on 17 August 2026 ran from 13:28 to 21:15 UTC, seven hours and forty-seven minutes. At peak, web and API traffic saw error rates of around 20%, while archive and raw-content downloads reached roughly 50%. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM and Team Sync were affected alongside Git operations, Actions, Pages, Issues, Pull Requests
3 min read Adding a new website, launching a customer portal, or handing a service to a new team should be straightforward. Setting up monitoring is part of that job, but it is easy for a manual step to be missed when information is spread across several systems. StatusCake now integrates with viaSocket, giving teams a way to connect
7 min read A website may be standing and still be in trouble. It may answer a request, return a cheerful 200 OK, and yet load slowly enough that visitors begin to lose patience. Its certificate may be nearing expiry. Its domain records may have changed. A server may be filling its disk in the background, patient and
6 min read StatusCake tells you that something might be broken. Hermes can check whether it really looks broken, decide who should hear about it, send the email, and keep the record for tomorrow morning’s summary.
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