#uptime
Articles tagged "uptime".
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Uptime Monitoring 101: how to never be the last to know
The worst way to find out your website is down is from an angry customer. This is the beginner-friendly guide to uptime monitoring — what it is, why it matters, and how to set it up so you always hear it first.
What is 99.9% Uptime? The downtime hiding behind the nines
“99.9% uptime” sounds almost perfect — until you do the maths. Here's exactly how much downtime each level of nines allows, how it's calculated, and how to pick a target you can actually hit.
Website Downtime: the most common causes (and how to prevent each)
Most outages aren't mysterious — they come from the same short list of causes, again and again. Here's that list, what each one looks like, and how to stop it taking your site down.
How to Monitor a Website (a step-by-step guide)
Monitoring your website sounds technical, but the essentials take minutes. Here's a plain, step-by-step guide to going from 'I hope it's up' to 'I'll know the second it isn't'.
How Often Should You Monitor? (choosing a check interval)
Check too rarely and you find out about outages late; check constantly and you pay for it. Here's how to choose a monitoring interval that matches what each service is actually worth.