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4 Causes of Website Downtime and How to Monitor Them

A lot of site owners underestimate the consequences of downtime, assuming that a brief outage won’t do much harm to their business. But this can leave them with broken web pages that are either poorly rendered or filled with bugs, frustrating users into hitting the “back” button since they can’t navigate the site. The truth is, keeping outages at bay beats fixing them after the fact, even with a guaranteed backup plan.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish is Now Supported!

Announcing support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish on all Cloud 66 products (including registered servers). From this point onward, brand-new applications will have Ubuntu 22.04 installed. We will continue to install Ubuntu 20.04 when scaling up servers in an existing application. Don't forget, you can control your target Ubuntu version through your manifest! Ubuntu 22.04 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and will receive ongoing app updates and critical security fixes till April 2027.

Automating New Device Setup with NinjaOne

This article is based on a webinar conducted by NinjaOne and is intended as a companion piece to help our users follow along. You can watch the full webinar here. Onboarding new endpoints can be a particularly time-intensive task. Fortunately, the steps take to configure, secure, and setup the endpoint can often be standardized and automated to dramatically decrease the time investment required. With the right tools, you can even automate customized device setup at scale.

A Magic Quadrant Leader in Low-Code Application Platforms for third year

I’m thrilled to announce that, for the third consecutive year, ServiceNow has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms.1 We believe this recognition demonstrates our commitment to help customers build low-code enterprise workflow apps fast and deliver them safely and at scale on a single platform. Digital transformation is in full swing, and the market demands a more agile and productive way to build software.

Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience: Comparing Strategies for Staying Resilient

If there is one thing organizations can take away from the past few years, it's that they are far more vulnerable than they could realize before. From pandemics to critical supply shortages to widespread data breaches and natural disasters, businesses that don’t have plans in place to handle and respond to emergencies are at tremendous risk. As leaders plan for inevitable crises and disruption, interest in business resilience and continuity grows.

AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Classic Load Balancer vs. Application Load Balancer

If you use Amazon Web Services, you have two load balancing options for your applications: Classic Elastic Load Balancer (CLB) and Application Load Balancer (ALB). And while choice is always good, the CLB vs. ALB debate can be intimidating. Which load balancer is right for your application? Is ALB better than CLB, or vice versa? This blog explores these questions.

ChatOps Explained and Why DevOps Teams Should Care

ChatOps can speed up organizations’ responses to user needs while relieving support staff of a lot of tedious activities. Many helpdesk or IT tickets are entered for routine end-user questions, such as finding out what hours you’re open or changing a password. However, organizations have also moved toward automating development and required operations through a process popularly known as DevOps.

An Introduction to AWS Monitoring with Prometheus and Logz.io

Prometheus is a widely utilized time-series database for monitoring the health and performance of AWS infrastructure. With its ecosystem of data collection, storage, alerting, and analysis capabilities, among others, the open source tool set offers a complete package of monitoring solutions. Prometheus is ideal for scraping metrics from cloud-native services, storing the data for analysis, and monitoring the data with alerts.