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5 websites that have experienced website downtime in the first half of 2022
3 min read Website downtime affects all websites, large or small. We break the common misconceptions in this post by telling you some of the biggest, and most shocking, websites that have experienced downtime in 2022 already!
StatusCake Team
June 7, 2022
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Change Log: The basics you need to know
2 min read Want to know why you should have a change log for a better customer experience? Read everything you need to know here!
StatusCake Team
June 6, 2022
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5 ways to make your website more trustworthy to customers
3 min read Make sure that customers trust your website as soon as they land on it with quick page speed, SSL and more in this blog!
StatusCake Team
May 27, 2022
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Start-ups need website monitoring, here’s why
3 min read Find out everything you need to know about why start ups need website monitoring to grow their userbase, revenue and SEO!
StatusCake Team
May 27, 2022
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Software developer tools to increase productivity
5 min read In this blog post I want to go over some of the software I use alongside my IDE/version control tools during my day-to-day work. These tools allow me to cut down on wasted time spent doing things inefficiently, track my work, take notes, and generally make my life easier.
Christopher Long
May 27, 2022
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5 surprising things you might not know about StatusCake
3 min read Here’s everything you might need to know about StatusCake that might just surprise you! From the range of customers, to our check rates, this is a list that you should definitely be reading.
StatusCake Team
May 27, 2022
Engineering
The basics: How to use the StatusCake API
5 min read We offer an API that provides direct access to features the platform offer, with each feature providing a set of endpoints to perform operations on resources associated with your account. The StatusCake control panel offers plenty of useful visualisations and alerting systems so you can be in touch with your data, but sometimes we may have use-cases where we would rather leverage the API so in this blog post we’re going to see how we can make use of these endpoints using C#.
Christopher Long
May 20, 2022
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How to align your dev team when working from home
3 min read Use all of our top tips to help your dev team collaborate better when working from home or in a hybrid environment!
StatusCake Team
May 14, 2022
Engineering
StatusCake GitHub Projects
4 min read I allows users of the platform to come up with custom ways of interacting and making our tools work for their specific needs. In this blog post I’m going to look at a few recent projects on GitHub that use the StatusCake API to either save you time or do something interesting with your test data.
Christopher Long
May 12, 2022
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The top 5 root causes of website downtime
2 min read Want to know what causes website downtime? Read 5 of the top reasons in this blog and how you can avoid them!
StatusCake Team
May 11, 2022
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The one where the Lloyds Banking Group suffered downtime
2 min read It’s estimated that over 18 million people in the UK use online banking. So when the Lloyds, Halifax, and the Bank of Scotland online banking platforms all suffered partial downtime, millions of people were unable to access their accounts properly. Find out more here!
StatusCake Team
May 11, 2022
Engineering
Monitoring Applications Declaratively with Terraform
6 min read In this article, we’ll explore the complexities of monitoring larger infrastructures and how StatusCake solves these problems with simple automation tools.
Tomas Basham
May 4, 2022