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short-reads
Why you should have a website monitoring tool ready for Black Friday
3 min read It’s not all fun and games as a company owner during the biggest sales season of the year; unfortunately, you’re more likely to suffer website issues than on an average day. Find out how you can keep your website performing at its best during Black Friday right here!
StatusCake Team
November 17, 2021
short-reads
Why Google SSO is so important
3 min read Do you know what an SSO is? Do you know if you’re currently using one? Here’s everything you need to know about an SSO and what the benefits are to using them.
StatusCake Team
November 12, 2021
How To
How to make money online for beginners
4 min read In this article, we are going to look at some of the options to help you start making money online as a beginner from home, with the flexibility and a small investment depending on the model that you want to pursue and right for you.
Mario
November 9, 2021
Engineering
3 useful design patterns every developer should know about
7 min read The term “Design Pattern” describes a well-known and battle-tested solution to a problem that developers tend to encounter again and again when developing software. Here’s our step-by-step guides to the most useful ones!
Christopher Long
October 28, 2021
Engineering
Shiny, new CSS features to get to know
4 min read The CSS landscape at the moment is ever-changing. There are many new features that have been released recently, so I thought I’d have a look around and summarise those that caught my eye, concisely in this post.
Alexandra Moore
October 26, 2021
How To
The easiest ways to increase page speed on your website
4 min read Wondering why your website is loading so slowly? Is your bounce rate off the scale? Are you dropping in SEO rankings? We’ve got you. Follow our handy guide to help you make your page load speed quicker!
StatusCake Team
October 20, 2021
How To
All of your questions answered about server monitoring
2 min read Here at StatusCake, we get asked a lot of questions about server monitoring, and more specifically, when we know your server has exceeded your set limits, for example. Understanding how we know can show you why server monitoring is so important to your website, and that’s why we’ve collated the most frequently asked questions so you can see for yourself!
StatusCake Team
October 19, 2021
short-reads
5 times domains have been hijacked
3 min read Have you heard about domains being hijacked before? Did you know that yours could easily be at risk? Read about these 5 examples of domains that have been hijacked and how so you can make sure yours doesn’t fall victim too!
StatusCake Team
October 19, 2021
short-reads
Why everyone should be using a website monitoring tool right now
3 min read Not using website monitoring? Find out what happens to your website when you don’t, and how it can have long-last effects on your brand reputation!
StatusCake Team
October 13, 2021
In The News
What to expect from Black Friday 2021
3 min read Black Friday 2021 is fast approaching so we thought we’d help you out with everything you need to know about the biggest online event of the year!
StatusCake Team
October 7, 2021
Engineering
Serving multiple SSL certificates in your Go tests
5 min read Over the past few months, I’ve been redesigning and writing StatusCake’s SSL monitoring feature from Node to Go. This blog post describes one of the more subtle challenges we came across to help you master it if you find yourself with it too!
StatusCake
October 5, 2021
Engineering
Updated: Let’s Encrypt’s root certificate expiry and what it means
2 min read You might have seen the name “Let’s Encrypt” across the internet for the past week and it’s because their root certificate expires on 30th September. It’s been planned for a good long while, with Let’s Encrypt providing users with updates on the expiry and new certificate since 2020. Who is Let’s Encrypt and what exactly
StatusCake Team
September 30, 2021