We’re excited to announce the launch of our new Status Page theme: Inspire. This update brings a modernized design, enhanced customization options, and a sleek dark mode to elevate the way you communicate with your customers. See a live demo of the Inspire theme in action here.

At Uptime.com, we’re committed to delivering innovative solutions that enhance the security and reliability of your website monitoring experience. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a significant update to our Private Location Monitoring (PLM) solution: natively integrating with Uptime.com’s Secure Vault.

At Uptime.com, we’re committed to helping you monitor and manage the uptime and reliability of your websites and critical infrastructure. Based on your feedback, we’ve enhanced Cloud Status to deliver even more powerful insights into third-party dependencies and improve your experience. Here’s what’s new and what’s coming next!

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are intended to overwhelm a network or server and cause failure or work stoppage. DDoS attacks first appeared in the mid-1990s and continue to the present day. Far from going away, they have become more prevalent: in the first quarter of 2024, the number of DDoS attacks against web servers increased by 93% compared to the same period a year earlier. One survey found that nearly 70% of organizations experienced 20 to 50 DDoS attacks per month.

In June 2019, a curious thing happened. Students were forced to go fully analog, putting pencil to paper when they couldn’t log in to their Google Classroom accounts. Avid media consumers sat staring blankly at buffering YouTube videos. Gmail notifications came to a screeching halt as inboxes sat eerily quiet. It wasn’t that the Google Cloud Platform had crashed — far from it.

When someone visits your website or logs into your platform, they expect it to be available whenever needed. But downtime is inevitable, whether it’s an unexpected technical hiccup or necessary routine maintenance. Because of that certainty, tech vendors hold themselves accountable to their clients with an uptime service level agreement (SLA) guarantee. This guarantee sets clear expectations about how often your services will be available and what happens when those expectations aren’t met.

Ping is more than just a simple vocabulary term in the world of network diagnostics. It’s a fundamental tool that helps ensure the smooth operation of your network. Whether you’re a seasoned site reliability engineer (SRE), developer, or IT manager, monitoring essential ping metrics like latency, round-trip time (RTT), and packet loss is key to maintaining optimal network performance.

In the modern world of e-commerce, customer expectations are sky-high: online shoppers are used to seamless user experiences, even with massive online retailers operating at scales that were previously unthinkable. Services like Shopify provide accessible modern storefronts and payment processes, reducing the need for significant backend work to get an online store up and running.

So, you’re browsing the web, adding items to your cart, maybe even entering your secret pizza recipe into an online form (we won’t judge). Ever wondered how all that sensitive information doesn’t end up in the hands of internet pirates? Enter SSL — which stands for Secure Sockets Layer.

What is uptime anyway? Behind any successful online operation is a resilient infrastructure and a team with a well-honed operational discipline dedicated to ensuring uptime metrics consistently meet the benchmarks required to fulfill service commitments. However, brief downtime can have serious repercussions when infrastructure falters or servers are pushed past their limits.