2 min read At StatusCake we have always been keenly aware that we can’t do everything; and we’re not exactly fans of reinventing the wheel!  That’s why from day one we’ve always worked with selected 3rd party partners to give you more power, be it with mobile notifications using the power of Pushover or advanced alert routing with PagerDuty.

< 1 min read StatusCake has itself grown, and we’ve been asked more-and-more to provide a more bespoke service for some of our larger customers, such as blue chip organisations and government departments.

< 1 min read At StatusCake we’ve always prided ourselves on not only have great premium product, but a free product as well that is unlimited and fully supported. There are times however when we need to review how our product is used, and ensure that a small number of free users aren’t having a detrimental effect on the

< 1 min read For those users manually updating each of your tests every time you want to change your preferences – perhaps add in a new monitoring location (we have added 50 new servers in recent weeks!), or change the amount of confirmation servers used before alerting you, can become a laborious task.

< 1 min read We do all this at the same time as your normal test alerts would be sent so there is absolutely no delay to uptime alerts if you’re site is working as intended and if it’s likely to go down again after a few seconds our test agents will simply wait for the service to be truly up

2 min read We’ve rolled out an additional 10 servers (spread geographically) in the last week and these servers are already up and running. With these additional servers we now have over 80 running in operation querying sites at a rate of around 25,000 per a minute. This means each server is doing less work now and thus continuing to ensure no delays in testing

< 1 min read With StatusCake our free website monitoring allows you to test an unlimited number of URLs and websites for downtime.  Compare this with MonitorScout where you can carry out only 15 tests

2 min read Detecting downtime is important, but just as critically knowing when you site is loading slowly (although technically up), is just as important to your business.

2 min read At Internetseer.com if you’re looking for free website monitoring your websites will only be monitored every hour.  But what happens if your site is checked by Internetseer and then goes down for 55 minutes?  You’d never have known about your website’s downtime.  And in the meantime you’d have lost money, customers and your hard earned reputation.

< 1 min read AtStatusCake.com we take a very different approach, we set our goals much higher than just not sucking. We believe that whether you’re using a free or a premium paid-for website monitoring service you should expect the gold standard when it comes to features and customer service.

< 1 min read Looking for the best alternative to Service uptime website monitoring service? StatusCake is for you, offering unlimited website.

2 min read we know that many customers may not need a paid plan, or want to spend an extended to time using a free uptime monitoring tool to fully evaluate the service.  StatusCake offers free monitoring to its customers – indefinitely.   Our free community plan allows you to monitor up to 10 websites.  You can sign-up for a free account

2 min read StatusCake’s compelling free monitoring not only packs the features of many premium services, but allows you to monitor an unlimited number of websites, URLs, IPS or ports.

2 min read We’re grandfathering current prices for all our paid StatusCake users forever – you’ll continue to pay the same amount that you’ve always paid, except that we’ll be adding even more features, even more customer service. More bang for your buck! And if you’re not already on a paid plan don’t worry. If you sign-up up for a paid plan prior to the new prices taking effect on 29th November you’ll still be grandfathered in at the current prices for the lifetime of your subscription.

< 1 min read Our Automatic WordPress Monitoring is a the perfect solution to providing thorough website monitoring without complex rules & configurations.

< 1 min read StatusCake has made some vast improvements to SSL monitoring for our superior & business account holders. Find out everything here!

< 1 min read After our customer survey, as always, we’re acting on the responses. After your feedback we’ve made some improvements to DNS monitoring.

< 1 min read Read our announcement of changes to the Current Tests page. We’ve taken steps to improve how accurate and up to date your data is.

< 1 min read So what can you do when AWS goes down? In this blog we cover what you should do if AWS goes down and how StatusCake can help!