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Five Status Page Messages to Send During an Outage

During a server outage, your IT team can feel pulled in two different directions: First, having to communicate with customers about the issue and second, fixing the actual problem. Since you want to keep your customers informed while working to resolve the issue, there’s a solution tailored to your team: A status page can help you communicate while keeping pages updated with specific, clearly-written automated messages.

What Really Happens in IT During an Outage?

A typical workday for your IT team may go from calm to all hands on deck. When a problem occurs on your servers, you may not know the cause right away, but before you can start figuring it out, customers are blowing up your phone and monitoring systems. Everything you do from this point has a timestamp attached to it. If you wait five minutes to put up a status page, that could equal 100 people who have submitted tickets. The longer you wait, the more people you will have to get back to.

4 Methods to Prevent Downtime

In this ebook, we discuss the importance of having a highly reliable service, as well as the potential impacts of downtime to your business if you don't. You'll walk away with four industry best practices you can implement to prevent downtime in your systems, decrease the overall amount of downtime that impacts your customers, and begin to take proactive measures to prevent downtime, instead of reacting to outages.

Four Reasons Your Daycare Needs a Status Page

A snow delay can throw a wrench into your typical workday at the daycare center — especially if you’re fielding emails and phone calls from concerned parents. When you start receiving these emails, phone calls or texts from parents asking whether to pack their kids’ lunches, you may have to answer each of message in an emergency. This can snowball into calls or emails asking for more information about the snow delay.