In Mr. Robot‘s episode 9 of season 2 (13:53), Angela Moss needs to obtain the Windows domain password of her superior, Joseph Green, in order to download sensitive documents that would potentially incriminate EvilCorp. Since her attack requires physical access to his computer, she starts with a good old-fashioned social engineering attack to get the only currently present employee in the office to leave.

Each day, dozens (sometimes hundreds) of incidents and maintenances are created on the Status.io platform. We’ve analyzed and studied thousands of these events to help us learn how to improve the tools based on our users’ needs. Today we’re announcing a couple of updates that enhance and streamline the incident and maintenance processes. Let’s dive in!

In an ideal world every site would have 100% uptime, 24/7, 365. However, the reality is not so perfect – hardware failures, DNS issues, DDoS attacks, server maintenance, software problems and poor hosting are among the many causes of downtime. It’s not all doom and gloom though – by following a few practical steps you can really cut down on your downtime.

This is the first official release of Up Pro, which includes a number of improvements over the open-source version for production applications. If you’re unfamiliar with Up, it’s a tool which helps you manage and deploy serverless apis, apps and websites in seconds to your own AWS infrastructure. In short: it’s the easiest way to deploy Node.js, Golang, Python among others to AWS, and can cost as little as $1/mo to run or in some cases free.

Our website monitoring solution is now available for two years and we have upgraded it with cool new features.